Thursday, October 29, 2020

Leading with food policy

How many politicians make the first policy roll out of their campaigns about food? Michelle Wu, angling for the office of Mayor of the City of Boston (election in 2021) has released a white paper on food policy. Wu sees food system change as integral to city planning, as well as a key to the road back from the Covid19 pandemic. She is quoted in an October 20 story on Boston.com

"It’s clear that food justice could lead our recovery from this pandemic, and it will be critical to making sure that we are addressing the needs in this moment but with the goal of transforming systems that already weren’t working prior to COVID-19.” 

I found the full report here: 

https://assets.ctfassets.net/1hf11j69ure4/5PJJnCGV7QIc7KgMiftjlr/51903afb4f82962d02d3665c2a02615e/Wu-Food-Justice-101920.pdf


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