City Fresh Foods

I’ll get straight to it.  The current food system we all are apart of is wrought with problems.  Unnatural ways of production, heavy reliance on harmful chemicals, more and more food recalls, items with less nutrition per bite then just a few decades ago, the list goes on.  One thing is clear in these modern times,  the average consumer has lost touch with where food comes from.  Many of the children we service think food comes from a supermarket.  Larger food suppliers up and down the food chain have developed operating systems and value added processes that most consumers remain completely ignorant of.  Yet we demand and we buy these products and we put them in our body.

Fortunately more and more of us are starting to question, investigate and change our consumption habits around food.  Are you ? The recent rise and expansion of Farmer’s Markets and Consumer Supported Agriculture (CSA’s) and this new energy of  supporting local is reassuring.    But things will have to move a lot faster if we are going to restructure a more stable, sustainable food system based on real, healthy, local food.  And it starts with pull.   Pull is the demand that drives the market.  Annually City Fresh Foods currently buys over $2 million in food products- a drop in the bucket- but enough pull in one concentrated arena to start pushing the conventional envelope.  If we can show that a food service institution serving thousands of meals a day can introduce more and more locally supplied raw and value added items into our commissary with our restrictive budget, regulations and operating constraints.  Then why can’t more institutions follow.  I will warn you now, we are just getting started.  Grab on and let’s all help pull our current food system in the right direction.

-Glynn

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