San Francisco enacts new sustainable food policy

In an effort to raise awareness of local food and sustainable methods of food production, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom has erected a new food policy for the city. In it, the mayor outlines several objectives, including audits of vacant land for gardening, new health requirements for food vendors, and law requiring all city-purchased produce to be locally grown.

The policy is the result of Urban-Rural Roundtable meetings held by the city in 2008, which shed light on hunger and nutrition deficieny.

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