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 ca