Earned the highest level of achievement with four stars in the program. Not only has oaklands transformation led to benefit for students, the local economy and the environment, but theyve done this while reducing per meal costs. Our partners at friends of the earth documented over this two years, student participation and satisfaction in the School Meals Program increased. Just to conclude, as we build more and more purchasing power from cities and School Districts, were not only leveraging the buying power, but Building Collective voice and power of local coalitions and local leaders to improve our food system on a large scale. San Francisco City and county has an extraordinary opportunity to once again lead the way, by becoming the first city in the county to develop the program. Now wed like to introduce lauren, product manager of Student Nutrition Services at the San FranciscoUnified School District who will be presenting on the experience with adopting and implementing their good Food Purchasing policy. Good morning, commissioners, im the project manager with San FranciscoUnified School District future dining experience. Its my pleasure to come and present to you on our experience so far with the adoption of the good Food Purchasing policy. I have actually had the opportunity to be working on the implementation and integration into the district. And ill present to you on where we are and then open it up for questions if you have any. I wanted to start the presentation to give you a sense of who Student Nutrition Services is and why we elected to adopt the good food of purchasing policy. Its a system that provides access to and engages all students in eating fresh, health, food. Our mission is that we nourish our students with quality food and strengthen the school food ecosystem. Thinking about all five of each one of our values and how they align directly with our commitment with the good Food Purchasing policy and our commitment to our students, our community and the environment. So in spring of 2016, the board of education passed a resolution to adopt the good foods purchasing policy, making us only the School District in the nation to adopt the policy. Local economies, valued workforce, health and wellbeing of the students align directly with the efforts that student nutrition is hoping to align with the way that Student Nutrition Services operates daily. Finding a policy not only formalizes the commitment to the kids, to the community and the environment, but it provides access to partnerships nationwide. In addition it holds us accountable for our actions to make sure were meeting the goals were setting and the standards were saturday setting setting four ourselves. We spend 12 million annually, making us the largest restaurant in San Francisco. This presents a huge opportunity for impact, internally and externally throughout San Francisco and beyond. So just to give you a sense of what that looks like. We operate we serve almost 7 million meals annually, 33,000 meals per day. This looks like 85 of the meals come that are prepared offsite by a different vendor and brought in and the other 15 on made onsite. What that means is that is four different contracts and food coming from a lot of different sources. But it also presents four different opportunities to ensure were working with the vendors to provide high quality food at a price we can afford. What this means, were working on the process for the preferred meals and also for the groceries and were working on how do we integrate in language around good food and Higher Quality standards in such a way that encourages and requests that our proposers integrate and demonstrate a commitment to being willing to meet Higher Standards than they were . And its not meaning theyre asking to theyre doing it now, but theyre willing to work with us to do it and get us at the price levels they can promise us. We also are in the process of doing the baseline analysis. Were in the finalizing stages of this. And weve been doing it thanks to the center for good Food Purchasing. It is a long process. It has taken a long time. We have food coming from a lot of sources. It takes a long time to collect and analyze. And then were working with them, a lot of the baselines are based on third party verification, so were working on how to interpret that. But what it really means its allowing us to dive deep and see where is our food coming from and where are the easy opportunities we have potential for big impact and change . So, we are kind of in this busy beginning phase, integrating into the proposals. Were also working with the baseline. But so far, weve already had a lot of impressive impact. The first one the partnerships. Amazing partnership with the good Food Purchasing, theyve been a valuable resource, not just the help theyve provided, but connecting us to other organizations nationwide. Were learning that were able to leverage as a large School District to leverage our power to encourage our vendors to make changes and provide commitments to us. And that we see this as an opportunity for kind of a start of a movement. Were the second one and that is the opportunity for change. And that the more people that join on, the more people that will be aware of it and the more companies will start to make the commitment. Thank you very much. Supervisor ronen thank you. Any questions . None. Ok. Great. So thank you. Next id like to introduce womens policy director at the department of status of women who will be presenting on the Human Trafficking task force and exploring good food policy. Thank you for calling this hearing. I wanted to connect the dot and show how it fits in other initiatives in the city and to combat Human Trafficking. The Department Staffs to improve the response to Human Trafficking. We have two dozen departments and organizations that participate in the efforts. About a year ago, we identified one of the ways we could better address Human Trafficking and labor trafficking, was to look at our purchasing power and how we as San Francisco could be looking at trafficking that was happening in the supply chain of goods and services. When we look at the industries identified in the United States as being complicit in Human Trafficking, the food is right up there. Fishing, both overseas, there has been a lot of coverage and publicized case where fishermen were here in the bay trafficking and poultry processing. So we realize that San Francisco purchases food in its jails and hospitals and leveraging our purchasing power to address Human Trafficking in the Food Supply Chain would be an Excellent Way to try and make sure that our dollars are not somehow complicit in Human Trafficking. So this ties in with the good Food Purchasing policy and their valued workforce component of the project. So were really supportive of the initiative and really hope that San Francisco can put its money where its mouth is in terms of making our dollars support our values. I want to thank a lot of the members from the mayor task force to provide public comment. I want to thank you and take any questions. Supervisor ronen any questions . None. Thank you very much. Next, id like to introduce chief operating officer for zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital, the department of Public Health, to discuss the work theyre doing around healthy and Sustainable Food and how the good Food Purchasing might be part of that work. Good morning, service, im the chief operating officer of San Francisco general and ill be giving an overview of how Public Health goes across the organization. As you know, we have two hospitals. All together, we serve 6,000 meals a day and 2 million meals a year. Food is 6. 5 million and supplies and materials 8. 8 million. We partner with a Group Purchasing organization used for hospital items and get the best price to be stewards of the city. So i want to go over accomplishments weve achieved in the past year. We believe in providing patients and community with healthy and Sustainable Food options. In the past few years, weve served locally grown and seasonal produce and hope to move in a direction in laguna, all local produce is served to patients. The calf sorry, if you could hold on. Is there a problem with supervisor ronen sorry about that, here we go. Thanks. Would you like me to start over . Supervisor ronen no, no, no. Please continue. Overall our cafeterias have reduced sodium, frying options. Our meals offer more fresh fruits and vegetables and baked rather than fried foods. Some challenges, currently, healthy our hospital is allowed to get better pricing due to the pricing power. The cost is still high for organic and antibioticfree items. There are limited options for products to choose from through the gpo, including meats that are antibioticfree. There is not enough demand at the patient level for foods and there is not enough demand from viv ant. Im going to introduce hello, thank you for having us. To pick up where he left off. Some of the next steps weve been looking at, laguna honda, are increasing healthy food options. Developing standards around purchasing more sustainable local organic whole foods. Weve been evaluating a couple of different vendors for cagefree eggs and looking at aeb use in animals. Weve been looking at reducing the use of canned goods and frozen vegetables for fresh. Enhancing our waste program. Limiting gpos in the foods we serve. And exploring options for organic milk and dairy. Then specific to good Food Purchasing, we have been working with them on providing information for our baseline report. It is challenging sometimes with u. S. Foods identifying where the source of the food actually comes from. There are criteria that they disturbed earlier closely aaligns with our vision. Some of the benefits we see in adopting the good Food Purchasing program would be that help with the baseline report and understanding what were currently doing. Best practices in moving forward. And as mentioned, some of those connections to other organizations working on the same initiatives. Some of the challenges weve had in terms of obtaining that data from u. S. Foods, where the food is sourced, the cost and availability of some of the products, some of the more sustainable organic products would have a cost for our department. And then just the contract and vendor process in terms of the city process and working through that to maybe open up to alternate vendors or having other contracts that would allow us to purchase those products. Thats all. Thank you. Supervisor rone supervisor ronen thank you very much. Supervisor fewer i would like to introduce paul from the Sheriffs Department, how good Food Purchasing might be part of their work. Good morning, supervisors, thank you for having us here today to talk about this great program. I handed out a few information pieces there and im not sure if i can put that on there. Ill be brief. I wanted to give you overview of the food service in the jail system. We wefsh 14 both to the incarcerated and Staff Members throughout the 24hour period. Air mark is our current provider. We have one in the hall of justice and the other is out at county jail 5. San bruno. We produce two hot meals and one cold meal. There are numerous diet plans throughout the system. To include such plans as kosher, vegan. A variety of options for people to have. Provided meals for them. We also have a contracted dietician who provides support every six months to terms of our practices. And what was really great about hearing about good Food Purchasing program and being able to connect with them, is the fact that we had our rsp process coming up for the Food Service Provider and as a result of the collaboration and meetings with them that started may of last year, we were able to incorporate the language in the rsp that is going on as we speak. So by the end of this cycle, starting in july of 2018, we should have in place a program where we hold people to what is called the level 1 star level standard of good Food Purchasing. And in our rsp language we hold them to making sure they complete a Baseline Assessment within the first 12 months of the contracted period to meet the goals. It is also fortunate because it matches the values of the department. We have a keen interest in making sure people are well fed in our system in order to make sure theyre healthy and food is of interest to everybody, especially when you dont have the ability to go out to a different restaurant or have a choice in what meals you actually eat. We have an interest in making sure we provide the best meals possible. Do you have any questions . I do. Supervisor fewer it seems as though the Sheriffs Department has adopted it . Yes. Oh good. With with the help of people in the room, we were able to get the ball started last year for the rfp process this year. We were fortunate. Supervisor fewer any questions . Supervisor ronen im wonder federal governme if across the departments, you work on purchasing policies. I know that information is hard to get. Rather than duplicating that work, if youre communicating with each other to figure out i mean this question is for any of you to answer, but it seems like it would make a lot of sense. I am aware at the Department Head level because we have many collaborations with the department of Public Health. I know that they have spoken to the sheriff about the fact were engaged in the program right now and she was interested in the progresses we had made through the Department Heads. Thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you. Supervisor fewer, if youre thinking of putting structure in place. Supervisor fewer right, not duplicating. Supervisor ronen lets open up for public comment. Each speaker will have two minutes. I have speaker cards here that ill call out. Doug black, sonya, ruth robinson, nelson berry iii, mayor steiner, marcy coburn, juliet simms and then ill call more names after that. First speaker. Hello, good morning, thank you for featuring this policy. Im mary steiner the president of the United Nations association San Francisco chapter. Im here also as a member of the San Francisco collaborative against Human Trafficking and a member of the Mayors Task Force against Human Trafficking. I was stunned when i attended the recent San Francisco collaborative against Human Trafficking conference about industrys impacted by Human Trafficking, how business and community are fighting back. One of the presentations was from a member of the Teamsters Union and they routinely evaluate the conditions of farm workers. They had evaluated taylor farms in salinas and it was a passing grade and then decided to investigate taylor farms in tracy. They discovered pregnant women washing these organic greens, baby greens in chlorine and unprotected. And the motel was doing sex trafficking. The owner was men dosa. So here are the packages of organic baby greens that i see on the grocery shelves, thinking this must be pure and wonderful. We need to take a closer look again about what our food sources are and work with labor as well. Thank you so much. Good morning, seniors, im nelson berry im on the United Nations board, im the chair fort global goals of Sustainable Development, i want to say how excited i am about this proposal. Its really another example of how San Francisco is taking the leadership position in so many areas. And i understand tomorrow the city is going to be talking about divesting 450 million from fossil fuel, so the momentum is moving in a sustainable direction. When i look at the good Food Purchasing program values, local economies, environmental sustainability, i can assure that they fall in direct alignment with can i put this here . The 17 global goals for Sustainable Development which was created in 2015 just before the paris climate conference. And this program, ive checked all 17 boxes because this program would enhance and be actual programs that support all 17 of the United Nations global goals for Sustainable Development. I couldnt give you a higher grade on your effort. Down at stanford, the department of engineering has Sustainable Systems initiative, they determined that 60 of the global population will live in cities by 2030. They conclude that the successful Sustainable Development goals localization will be a critical step toward achieving the goals and the success depends on concerted leadership of cities and City Networks to take local action towards the global good. Im almost finished, they had identified the main challenge that we need actionable intelligence at the city level to achieve the Sustainable Development goals. So thank you very much for your actions. We totally support it. My name is sonya, im the bay area director for the Sustainability Initiative called green monday. We educate students on the impact of agriculture. I fully support the good Food Purchasing policy. Our School Program is in dire need of an overhaul. Childhood obesity is at an alltime high. Many students i meet are eating pizza, hamburger and Fried Chicken in schools and these foods manifest themselves in reduced energy, attention deficit, obesity rates and more. I was overweight for most of my life up until the last four years. During the school years, the only vegetables i was accustomed to was the to mate sauce on my piece and salad drenched in ranch. Like myself, there are many students now whose only options are School Lunches and they deserve lunches that are better for their health. I wonder what my Childhood Health would have looked like if it was implemented during my time as a student. For younger generations to thrive, they need for fruits, vegetables, and more plants reducing meat. The School District is reaping the economic and Health Benefits of a 30 meat reduction initiative. A new case study found that the district saved 42 million gallons of water annually and saved 42,000 in cost savings over twoyear period. Money that was used for plant been based foods. Thank you so much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Good morning. My name is lauren. Im a coordinator of the San Francisco urban agriculture lands. Im here on behalf of the alliance today to support the good Food Purchasing program in San Francisco. This program is progressive in its equal weighting of the five values and those are all values that the urban Agricultural Alliance strives for in the work we do. Sourcing food closer to where it is good for Climate Change. Focussing on vegetables is crucial for Public Health. Valuing food chain workers, all workers in the food chain, is crucial for the states economy. These are some of the benefits we get from the good Food Purchasing program. As was mentioned, adoption of this program would have benefits beyond just the food that is actually being purchased by the city. Because it will help motivate suppliers that will food will be bought by other purchasers. So on behalf of the sfuaa i encourage you move forward on adopting the program. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning. Im marcy, the executive director of the center or urban education about Sustainable Agriculture. Were celebrating the 25th year of running the Farmers Market and in the last three years, expanded to oakland and were returning a Farmers Market and run School Programs and Education Programs in the School District. Its not going to come as a surprise we support the policy and purchasing program. What we appreciate about the program is that its more holistic than other certifications programs and that seem to be more single issue. And it has standards for sustainability but also labor and humane treatment of animals in the local economy. We support it for those reasons. Focus on nutrition. Were also in oakland working with the oakland Unified School District and we supported this program and found that the School District has been able to improve the procurement and found ways to save money in the process. We feel that we should leverage the public dollars for more Sustainable Fare and the good Food Purchasing program will help San Francisco to do that and i urge the city to embrace its framework. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning, chair ronen, supervisors, im here on behalf of the Teamsters Union to express strong support. Doug black asked me to thank supervisor fewer and note with pride it was the teamsters who brought this policy to her at the school board. The teamsters represent 75,000 workers in californias food change. They pick, process, and distribute food into Public Institutions and private businesses. As such, the teamsters strongly support the good Food Purchasing program. There is a long history of exploitation in californias food chain, especially toward imMigrant Workers. But there is also a long history of workers and unions coming together to address the injustices. This policy will make sure we use dollars to employ companies that treat workers humanely. Thats why teamsters are strong spouters. Thank you. Supporters. Thank you. Good morning, my name is ruth. Im here on behalf of stop slavery, a Northern California coalition. Catholic sisters against Human Trafficking. As opponents of coerced labor we are in support for good purchasing of a valued workforce and its goal of achieving healthy working conditions and fair compensation for all workers and producers in the Food Supply Chain. Among those working in the Food Supply Chain are Migrant Workers, including agricultural labors who are vulnerable to risk forecasts for Human Trafficking. A study published by San Diego State university found in 2010, among undocumented Spanish SpeakingMigrant Workers in san diego county, over 30 were subjected to practices meeting the Legal Definition of Human Trafficking and as many as 55 had been exploited. They fight against the abuses to establish transparency. The good Food Purchasing standards are based on third party verification. These audits provide an impetus for positive change and working conditions through the supply chain. We must not ignore the human rights abuses suffered by those who feed us. None of us should benefit from the exploited labor. This Program Provides an important step in eliminating modern day slavery from the Food Supply Chain. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im here representing the Humane Society of the United States. I spent 12 years as a Food Service Director of a small high School District and worked directly with students. What i found working there was that my biggest hurdle was not getting the students to like plant based meals, it was getting the cooks to cook it. The High School Students these days, they want plant based food, they want the rainbow on the plate. My Biggest Issue was educating the staff that worked at the school for many years still relying on cheeseburger type of fallback. Working for the Humane Society has been a huge blessing for me, im now able to teach plantbased cooking to cooks all across Northern California, which is my territory. I do this for the Humane Society as a way of reducing that Carbon Footprint that happens with the Meat Industry and also increasing fruits and vegetables consumption. Im here to support this act on behalf of the Humane Society. Thank you so much. Good morning, supervisors. My name is lia im a staff attorney with the justice center. We provide Free Immigration Services to courageous women and children who have suffered genderbased violence. I was the director of the antitrafficking and i want to tell you a story about my client, well call him adam. He is from indonesia, grew up in poverty. He was recruited to work as a seaman. They promised him good wages. They arranged his transportation and documentation from indonesia where he boarded a large fishing boat. Out in the middle of the sea, he was transferred to two other boats against his will and in violation of his contract. On the last boat he worked on, life was a nightmare. He worked under terrible labor conditions, upwards of 20 hours a day. The captain denied him sufficient food, threatened him and physically assaulted him if he did not work. Human trafficking has a range of activities. He was a victim of labor trafficking. It was docked here in San Francisco and he escaped the boat for protection. He was safe here in the United States, was able to apply for a visa designed tore victims of Human Trafficking. He has been reunited with his family. This program wont stop labor trafficking, but it will help curb it. A Food Purchasing program that addresses the workplace that has baseline standards that support the safety and fair compensation of food chain workers is a positive and necessary step in the right direction. Good morning. Im here representing prevention institute. Were a National Nonprofit based in the bay area dedicated to advancing Community Health and Health Equity through Community Based prevention. I am also a registered dietician and do a lot of work looking at the quality of nutrition standards and nutrition policies. Often discussions of healthful food are reduced to focusing on nutrients and nutrition, when in reality, nutrition is just one facet of what makes up healthy food, because healthy food must be produced, transported in ways that sustainable, equitable and just. Many local governments are working to use the power of the purse to shift food systems toward healthier food. In my experience, the good Food Purchasing program is the strongest model of standards that account for the full spectrum of ways that our food system can be designed to support the health of people who consumer food, as well as the health and safety of those who produce the food. Local Economic Development and environmental sustainability. Last year, we had the pleasure of developing a profile on the success of the program in los angeles and through the city, and i would love to leave behind a couple of copies that describe that. Thank you very much for your time. Good morning. My name is lana. Im a food policy advocate for the Natural Resources council. We are a National Environmental organization with over 3 million members and activists that engage on issues. Im also long time San Francisco resident and a parent. I appreciate the opportunity to share my opinion. They have worked on critical food use challenges, eliminating food waste, pesticides and advancing healthy menus in all sectors of the food industry. We believe if these issues are addressed, that it would create a far healthier and more Sustainable Food system for all San Francisco residents and certainly beyond. Were excited to see these are addressed with the environmental sustainability standard. I think it offers a solid platform for San Francisco to use as it expands its Sustainable Procurement programs over time. Because if adopted the gfpp would serve as a consolidated home for many of the Food Purchasing resolutions and ordinances already on the book in the city and county. As well, i think it could lend kind of a formal home and support for the voluntary measures that are under way in the hospitals and jails as we heard from speakers today. Given that many of these policies have been passed in San Francisco quite some time ago, the adoption of this Program Offers a fresh opportunity to have updated comprehensive food standards across the city purchasing operations, but most importantly the gfpp offers a Clear Pathway to measure and benchmark progress. That accountable measure we heard earlier. Thank you. Im just going to call a few more names. Eli, andrew, susan, carrie, catherine. Im the seniorsy advocate youve heard a great deal with the work that the organization has done in evaluating the program in the oakland School District, i dont need to repeat that here, but we want to emphasize that our organization sees this initiative important enough that i made it here today. This is not actually my normal realm of work, i tend to work in sacramento, but we really believe the city of San Francisco could do something here to help california to make sure it meets with the rhetoric of being a global leader. We hope youll continue, thank you. Im a volunteer with food San Francisco and also a conscious consumer. Im here on a personal note because for ten years of my life i suffered severely from depression. And when i was 18, i attempted suicide and shortly after i was put on zoloft and when that didnt work, well beau well. And prozac, and then i was told he could no longer write me prescriptions because i had moved. Being the 22yearold i was, i had no idea how insurance worked to i decided to wean myself off of it. By myself, just doing research online. And that is when i discovered quality food and nutrition and i was able to get out of that state of being addicted to antidepressants and its been four years since and i have not had a depressive episode. It was important to come here today because we are dealing with Health Institutions and jails, a lot of which deal with mental illness. And i am somebody that knows the power of nutrition and quality food. So i support this measure. Thank you so much for your time. Good morning. Im an attorney with the Human Trafficking project at Asian Pacific island outreach. The five values should guide city food procurement because a valued workforce is a valuable workforce. Its synonymous with respecting human life, not sacrificing human dignity. Workers in agriculture, fishery and Livestock Industries are some of the most vulnerable in the country. Theyre comprised of immigrants, both documented and undocumented. And theyre engaged in one of the top three dangerous occupations. Payment to the workers to help feed the rest of the nation is stock at Poverty Level wages. The food and drinks we consume may have been farmed and fished by workers in involuntary serve attitude. While it may not be the majority, it is rife. This program is the best choice for procurement standards because it takes a holistic approach to the food system. Its community investment, selfinvestment, creates a model that will equally benefit those that are part of the chain of production as well as those in the community that will ingest what is created. San francisco hospitals and jails should adopt this policy. Individual consumers have the power to demand that the supply chain be transparent which assists in the fight against exploitation and trafficking and those fed in the hospitals and jails have no say where the food is coming from. Were like a brother and sister keeper, and helping them to choose wisely, thank you. Good morning, im the policy director at farm forward. I want to thank the supervisors for taking time to hear testimony on this issue. Farm forwards mission is to end factory farming and support food choices that reduce animal suffering. Industrial production of animals is wourch the leading contributors of environmental pollution, including Climate Change. It includes more Greenhouse Gases than trains, planes, automobiles combined. There is an immediate need to address this problem. And the good Food Purchasing policy has a strong framework for city of San Francisco, School Districts, to use their purchasing power and to leverage the food that they buy to change the way animals are raised for food. We know this can be effective. The farm forward has been working with the purchasing policy as well as universities and businesses across the country, university of california, office of the president , to chain their procurement change their procurement policies and led them to buying the chicken that they buy from the certified higher welfare sources, one of which is produced here in california. So we know that institutions can be part of the solution and were eager and looking forward to working with the Community Partners in the room to support San Francisco in this transition. Thank you so much. Next speaker, ill call a few more names. Albert. Maria. Victoria, and dr. Tom newman. Im the research and Program Manager of defense. Our work is focused on environmental sustainability and empowering local communities. We believe that the value of the program, that of environmental sustainability and local economies, would be a great step forward for the food procurement policy. Because of the education to Sustainable Production practices and the support of regional economies by sourcing from locally owned Food Processing operations. We also appreciate supervisor fewers thoughtful and hard work around the issue and look forward to helping see the policy move forward in the future. Thank you. Im going to call the rest of the cards. Maria, lucy. And meta. Good morning, thank you for having the hearing. Im the food and Agriculture Policy director. We are here nnd spur supports this every because of the benefits into local Food Purchasing and the benefits of Sustainable Agriculture and healthier food access. I want to thank, weve been working on this and want to thank the hospital food team and the Sheriffs Department for engaging on this. Were asking them to do something out of the norm and that takes work. Theyve been great partners. I want to thank supervisor fewer. Los angeles and oakland have shown this can work. It doesnt necessarily have a higher cost. There can be extra work involved for everyone up and down the departments, but it can work and it doesnt have to cost more. And thats really important. Another thing youre seeing the value to the city is in in room. There are very few frame works that gather this many people who care about food from a lot of angles. Antibiotics, labor, sustainability, this framework tries to address all of them in a way that is easier for agencies to handle and cities to set policy. San francisco has the opportunity to be the first county to adopt this across all the agencies that are offering food directly to people in city and county run institutions. And what wed love to see the board do is a couple of things, first, call on the agencies to submit Baseline Assessments within a few months. Use that information to set goals and then institutionalize those goals with a followup resolution or ordinance. That way we can have a well thought out milestone of where we want to go and start implementing this and truly adopt is to align money with values. Thank you. Good morning, honorable members of the committee. Im senior director of state legislation for the American Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. On behalf of the spca and the 6. 5 million supporters including thousands here in San Francisco, im please to speak in support of the policy. The spca has been a strong and consistent supporter of the policy given that one of the five core values is sport for ethical standards of Animal Welfare. 10 billion land animals are raised for food, from birth, the vast majority live in inhumane conditions. Farm animals have very few protections. However the principle set forth set in motion the change that could lead to improvement this their lives. The policy encourages the use of Animal WelfareCertification Programs and reductions in the reliance on animal forced foods. You have the opportunity to establish a humane and sustainable standard for the community by ensuring that public funds are spent in a manner consistent with the city and county environmental values. By adopting the program, you have the opportunity to use your purchasing power to source healthy high Quality Foods that support a strong economy, fair treatment of workers, fair treatment of animals and sustainability. We encourage you to for consideration and on behalf of the spca i thank you for your humane leadership. Thank you. Hi, im from pesticide action network. We support the adoption of the program. The most important thing that resonates with our organization is the fair labor standards as well as protection for farm workers and farming communities, children who live in farming communities because there will be stricter environmental standards. As per 2014, the department of Public Health report, half a million children in just 15 counties were exposed to pesticides within a mile of their schools. This will continue unless cities, counties, take action to put dollars toward safer procurement and supporting farmers, form workers and communities to move toward agricultural policies and practices that are health protected and protective of the environment. Were strongly behind this and hope that San Francisco will make a big stride and provide leadership on this. And protect communities across california and beyond california in this matter. Thank you. Hello, im dr. Tom newman. Past chaired on cofounder of ucsf Sustainability Committee and represent physicians for social responsibility in the San Francisco bay, which i chair and im so concerned about Climate Change sustainability i moved out of my comfort zone to testify at a board of supervisors and wrote all my comments, but realize youre all on board and know about the Greenhouse Gas footprint of animals having the biggest Greenhouse Gas footprint and water. And i want to mention the antibiotics that is another big thing as a pediatrician. So was happy to see that having meat raised nonantibiotics was part of it. I want to thank you for what youre doing. And strongly support this move to include the department of Public Health and the Sheriffs Department in the good Food Purchasing program. My name is christina. Im here on behalf of the animal Legal Defense fund. Its a Membership Organization with 250,000 members nationwide, including 2000 in San Francisco county. They support the adoption of the good Food Purchasing policy by San Francisco hospitals and jails. The emphasis on reducing the total volume of animal products purchased as a strategy for improving environmental sustainability and Animal Welfare is essential to the overall wellbeing of individuals. Reducing the dairy consumption will have direct and beneficial impacts on the environment. Reducing consumption of meat and dairy is one of the most impactful for mitigating Climate Change. Jails and hospitals would reduce the Carbon Footprint. Finally because meat and dairy are recognized to contribute to Heart Disease, diabetes and cancer, reducing consumption of both is a critical component of hospitals and jails. We strongly support and ask that you do as well. Thank you for giving time and attention to the good Food Purchasing policy and all the folks that turned out to testify. Im the heal food alliance, agriculture labor, were a National Alliance of 50 organizations that represent different sectors of organizing for food and farm justice, including 350,000 workers that are across the food system, as well as environmental groups like concerned scientists an pesticides at work, and a bunch of farmers around the country as well. Youre already aware of many of the impact of our current food system, how exploit it is for workers. 6 of the 8 worst paying jobs are food system jobs. It contributes to a third of Greenhouse Gases, as well as the Health Impacts youre heard about, increasing diabetes, obesity, Heart Disease and so on. Large institutions like schools and hospital and prisons, currently purchase about 150 billion worth of food every year. And so investing in good Food Purchasing policy is an opportunity to di vest from those frame works. We encourage San Francisco not only to adopt the framework but also to fully adopt and implement the good Food Purchasing policy here. There is a couple of examples weve seen from los angeles. Essentially that theyve already reduced their Carbon Footprint by 22 by adopting this program. And we know that adoption of gfpp increases competition and helps drive the market force. To make a point, weve seen in l. A. That every dollar that is spent on food has the ability to bring in between 1. 60 and 3. 12 that can be invested in local jobs, creates local revenue and so on. We strongly support you. My name is sophie, im an organizer at the russia Opportunity Center of the bay area. Rock is a National Nonprofit center that advocates for increased wages and working conditions. We understand the connection within the food chain and want to support all workers from the farm to the fork. Im here today to support the good Food Purchasing policies and its values because we know healthy environment and good jobs are necessary to maintain Healthy Communities and sustainable economy. Thank you. Good afternoon, im also here on behalf of the restaurant Opportunity Center, and here to voice my support for the good Food Purchasing program and all of its values because of how holistic they are and particularly the valued workforce component. At rock the bay we believe that ensure safety of the food, we must ensure the safety of the workers. And as we all know, workers are ones that run the food system and thats right hand that feeds. Were excited that labor is a component of the policy and are excited to voice our support. Thank you. Good morning, im also here with the russian Opportunity Center our focus is worker advocacy and we here complaints and abuse of the Food Service Workers in this area of the country. So i think supporting the good Food Purchasing program is essential because they focus on the safe and healthy working conditions of our Food Service Workers. Thank you