Chicago names first food equity policy leader – Chicago Sun-Times*

The Food Equity Council has already started out with five priorities to tackle which includes: eliminating barriers to food pantry expansion; maximizing nutrition programs and benefits; eliminating barriers to urban farming; supporting BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) food businesses; and leveraging city procurement to support local BIPOC food growers along with businesses and producers.
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The Paraclete
4 years ago

What’s for dinner? Flamin Hots and Coffee Cake! Yaaaaaayyy!!

rick1099
4 years ago

Food equity in the ghetto means you get an extra large fries with your triple cheesburger.

Ex Illini
4 years ago

Food equity? Welcome to Crazy Town.

Lana
4 years ago

Name this for what this is: The beginning of the implementation of Communism in Illinois.
Add Racism.

debtsor
4 years ago
Reply to  Lana

How else will Democrats ensure their people vote Democrat? Threaten to take away their food!

Rick
4 years ago

I was delighted to see the urban farming sentence. When I was a child we lived in my grandparents basement flat 60th and Tripp. He had chickens, we had eggs and occasionally slaughter one, grandma plucked it and singed off the hairs and cooked it. Grandpa (dziadek) chopped off the head. Eating a chicken you knew is a very devout and respectful thing, hard to describe, spiritual, life affirming even to a child. It was a 25 foot wide brick bungalow, nobody complained, government stayed out of peoples business. Too many people these days think food comes from the grocery… Read more »

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Dr Common Apathy
4 years ago
Reply to  Rick

Urban farming = soylent green.

debtsor
4 years ago

This is 100% a grift. People have figured out how to feed themselves without government since we first starting walking upright; and nearly every famine in modern history has be related to government malfeasance and not weather or nature as farming methods have come into the modern age. A city of Chicago ‘food equity’ official trying to get people more food is a pure grift.

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