Call on NYS lawmakers to create a Food Policy Council
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010, 1:20 PM
Food policy advocates in New York State are urging lawmakers to pass legislation to create a NYS Food Policy Council (bill A7528/S6893). The idea behind a state food policy council is to pull together the various stakeholders in NYS that are concerned about food policy – farmers, community food advocates, anti-hunger activists, environmentalists, low-income NYers – to discuss what needs to happen to create community food security throughout the state. While there are lots of great ideas, and many New Yorkers and elected officials have been speaking out on these issues, actual progress at the state level has been slow.
Phone calls to the two key sponsors would be helpful to thank them for their support and to urge them to push the bill: Assemblymember Felix Ortiz (518-455-3821) and Senator Liz Kruger (518-455-2297).
The bills are presently in the Assembly Government and Operations Committee (RoAnn Destito is chair, 518-455-5454) and the Senate Finance Committee (Sen. Carl Krueger, 518-455-2460).
Call these lawmakers today and urge them to pass bill A7528/S6893.
We need a strong Food Policy Council in New York!
June 10th, 2010 at 10:04 am
I’m a bit confused, how does this differ from the current NYS Food Policy Council?