Fixing School Food Programs Can Support Local Economies

This is something we can fix. You know, when you think about some of the intractable problems in our food system, they're not so local. Like if you talk about industrial agriculture or regenerative ag or, you know, changing SNAP regulations, but school lunches and school food programs, these are local. These are things that parents and citizens can influence with their local governments, right?

Well, not only that, you know, some of the stuff that you talk about in food fix is, can happen because of, you know, shifting the school food program. So as we move the entire city, right, to 100, so 100 225 schools, 54,000 kids fed three times a day. That, the buying power for whole real food that we have as a city is massive. And so what that allows us to do then is say, okay, what do we want to purchase locally? So we already purchase fish locally, or Boston, or, you know, coastal city. But should we be doing deals with local chicken farmers? Should we be, you know, promising them a certain amount of tonnage of chicken Every, and, and which allows them to then go get the investors that they need to expand their farms. Like all of this means that we help the local economy and we help the farming and the agricultural economy. And we keep it all kind of within our jurisdiction. So it's, it's, it's an actually, it's a beautiful, beautiful thing.