'Can't have a banana'City's proposed new Buy Local food policy is simplistic, hazy and the wrong priority |
So here's another half-baked scheme from Socialist Silly Hall I'm having one heck of a time digesting.
At today's government management committee, councillors will review a silly and potentially costly edict that will ask all already cash-strapped city operations to buy a portion of their food from local farmers in the GTA and around Ontario who use "environmentally and socially responsible" processing techniques.
According to the committee report, the new Local and Sustainable Food Procurement Policy -- an offshoot of Mayor David Miller's highly hyped Climate Change plan -- will "help reduce the (greenhouse gas and smog-causing) emissions" connected with transporting food produced in more distant climes and countries.
Those foods to be considered in the Buy Local plan include fruits, vegetables, meats, poultry, dairy products, eggs, fish, seafood, grains, nuts, seeds, beverages, oils, fats and sweeteners.
And it seems the scheme will apply not just to those city programs that purchase the lion's share of food at a cost of $11 million annually -- 57 day care centres, 10 Homes for the Aged and seven homeless shelters -- but to food concessions at the Toronto Zoo and Exhibition Place and to snack bars, cafes and restaurant space leased to private operators in parks, rec centres, arenas and other city buildings.
Never mind locally-produced nuts and seeds. Let's talk about the mayor and the other nuts at City Hall and their seemingly voracious appetite for inane schemes that have very little to do with the proper care and feeding of a city in decline.
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