The purpose of the Good food Economy Working Group is to provide advice and recommendations to the Los Angeles Food Policy Council on matters related to achieving a Good Food Economy in Los Angeles. The Working Group will incubate and/or cooperate with projects that implement its mission/vision. The Working Group will develop and recommend policies that support and enhance a Good Food Economy for Los Angeles and the Southern California region.
A Good Food Economy in Los Angeles is a part of the economy of a country at peace with its neighbors and its environment - the air, the land, the water and the creatures living in, on and under it. It is the local embodiment of a regional, national and international economy in which people have useful work to do at fair wages, affordable access to housing, health care, education and a secure retirement.
A Good Food Economy in Los Angeles will:
- Deliver to every single resident of Los Angeles enough Good Food to ensure them a healthy, vigorous, and satisfying life.
- Help produce useful work at fair wages for residents of Los Angeles and the entire Southern California region.
- Enable the residents of the city and the surrounding region to control decisions about how and what food is made available to them.
- Prevent those decisions from being made in far-away places by individuals remote from the life of the residents.
- Be a sustainable, self-reliant, localized economy owned and operated largely by residents of Los Angeles.
- Produce health, wealth and justice, by, for and under the capable, practiced control of, all of the residents of Los Angeles and the entire Southern California region.
The Working Group will make a Good Food Economy a real possibility for the residents of Los Angeles. It will describe policies that encourage the creation of a Good Food Economy for our residents. It will identify, sponsor and support projects that demonstrate the feasibility of a Good Food Economy in Los Angeles.
Through its efforts the Working Group will bring this message of hope to all of the residents of Los Angeles. When those residents genuinely embrace the promise of Good Food for everyone they will form an irresistible constituency in support of a Good Food Economy.
Co-Chairs: Anne Burmeister, Goetz Wolff, Larry Yee
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