and today, we are here to discuss the issue of food security. and i think that opening the comments by all of our supervisors really set the tone, on why this is an important issue and we are really thankful for your leadership on this issue. and we are here to talk about food security as well as the opposite problems which are hunger and food insecurety and health implications from this and we will present the data from the recent reports that provide the detailed understanding of the food landscape in san francisco and especially the landscape for more the vulnerable residents and the data was prepared by the city agencies non-profit organizations, and academic partners who are working on the front line in san francisco and in the shelters, in our hospitals and in our community-based organizations, collectively, these organizations are food programs like cal fresh and wic, for women, infant and children and they are funders and service providers for our senior meals and grocery and our summer lunch and after school snack programs and serve the

the groceries and cal fresh and wic. and in food consumption, the true challenges resolve around lack of kitchen and then the constrained challenges of cooking in the environment with either, without a proper equipment, or with con trained food resources. and according to the census, we have over 19,000 housing units lacking complete kitchen and that definition of a complete, is a sink and a stove and a fridge, and we think that this is under counted. cooking where you may only have a mike wave or a crock pot. >> i would like to move into, this report and this is going to sort of give a high level view of how to use this report. and we will focus on a couple of districts and it will illustrate some of the data that is in the report. and we have compiled, around 50 unique program indicators from the salt lake agencies. >> and non-profit and we have organized it through the framework and the food access and the food resources. and and the city wide analysis. >> and for the district level. and for the analysis for the population of the

the assessment of food security in san francisco and the second report is a changing landscape, food security and services in san francisco tender loin, i would like to thank the report for their leadership in putting together, this thorough and authority taive overview of hunger and how to combat it in san francisco and for both reports but, sisy boniny is a member of the public, and karen, paula jones, the head of the food systems in san francisco, in our department of public health, and terry. oly from san francisco and marin food banks and coleen of saint anthonies and meals on wheels san francisco and leave on a number of the public and thank you so much for the hard work and many others. i would like to now ask if my colleagues have any opening programs as well. >> supervisor yee? >> i want to thank you for taking the leadership and i grew up in the china town and so i recognized the lack of nutrition of food for many people, as i was growing up, and even when i, as a kid, my family had a little grocery store, and we know what they are, and even the grocery store plays in terms

and give the folks the food and the opportunities to purchase the food and the sources and the example of that is the healthy corner store and that is going to expand to a meat market and going to supply the meat, and going to run that counter and i think that a lot of opportunity and we need to begin how to answer that and how can we answer that question. >> tell low, thanks for having me here today, my name is moxy and i am a physician in internal medicine in oakland and i am a university of utah public health student and i am here today because i feel concerned as you do, i see patients in the er often, about half of the time the first thing they ask me for is if they can have some food and the cafeteria is still open. and i recently saw a patient who had a heart rhythm problem that is frequently fatal, he in fact, was resuscitated in the passed and had passed away and been brought back to life with the cpr and the first thing that he asked me and he interrupted me is that he was really hungry could he have some food. one of the things that i think is really important about

in the fridge and prepare the food in any way, except in a hot plate or a mike wave and that limits the option to prepare the food and they are certainly more expensive or putting more increased demand on the dining room. and if the people have the kitchens that will be the quality and be able to use the benefits or use a local supplement or even go to the food pantry. and with that, i would like to go back to dr. jones to talk about the next steps, thank you. >> thank you, terry. so now you have heard some bit about the report, and some of the data, and some of our high priority items. and i really just like to summarize the recommendation from the next steps and first of all it is full utilization of our federal nutrition program and especially cal fresh, which will generate the local economic activity and keep these dollars in the community and support the retail stores also and that is the non-profit partner's ability to meet the growing demand, coming from our residents. to purchase the food and to be able to increase the amount of housing with the kitchens and the ability to co

efficiently to increase the capacity if we increase there will be a difficulty for the people to be food secure with the healthy diets and the need is just too great and as a community, if we are serious about addressing the food security we have to address this gap. >> it will be available through the providers and distributed to a broader set of people, not everybody is eligible and if you are eligible, many people are not enrolled and so we don't want that to be a barrier and we could use the existing networks, such as health providers and school counselors and certainly or other agencies like dos and hsa, we want to expand this beyond the farmer's, and beyond farmer's market as much as that provides, an accident source of food in our city. but we want to include the retail as well. we then drive the activity into the community and it benefits all, creating it. 19,000 do not have kitchens and which means that these people have no ability, relatively to little or no ability to actually store the food in the fridge and prepare the food in any way, except in a hot plate or a mike wave an

on the table, but the right food as well. that is definitely an important part of it. >> who decides the menu? talking about nutrition and the proper foods and so on? >> we focus very heavily on healthy food. we are buying in bulk. we are buying a lot of staple items. canned vegetables, bread, grain, peanut butter and tuna, when we can afford it. those are very expensive items. half of the food, however, it is fresh produce. fresh fruits and vegetables. things that are difficult for low income families to find. not just a ford, but find in their own neighborhoods. because there are not grocery stores. we are out there making sure the food we distribute is as healthy as possible. the other important element of that is the community. we put out the food drive barrels. we really encourage the donors to put some thought into the foods they are distributing. we've got some direction on our barrels. we really want people to think about it. what kind of meals what they want on the taes and vegetable our community does have

the food served there is best than most food in the country and most people don't have that. >> yes, one staffer said that he could opt for whole plate of french fries for lunch. >> we want to serve great food, but we want to serve great food that they're eating because they know academics success is tied in to the nutritional choices as wha the choices we make every day. >> the school lunch program is the country's second largest foot an food nutrition program. they creased the availability of fruits, vegetables whole grains while reducing sodium and certain fats. some schools are turning to salad bars and chefs for the new meals. it cost $13 billion a year and some question the influence the industry after learning like items like pizza sauce counts s a vegetable. some schools dropped the program stating that students tossed the healthy options right into the trash cans. how could we have quality meals. let's go to julie, works with the independent women's forum and author of the new book" from cupcakes to chemicals" and michelle sigh men, president of eat, drink politics. she focus

and from the food stamp kids and others, how we work to educate more people of the one in four people in our communities that are at risk of food insecurety and how it is very, very common, yet, some what invisible in this city among the richest in the nation, that we should not have this but i really appreciate the heartfelt comments from many people and how we can work together to ease the suffering of people, and to hopefully end hunger and food insecurety in the cities and i want to thank all of the presenters and everybody who took the tremendous amount of time who come here and i know that you do work every day and let's continue to hammer away to end the hunger. >> i would like to make a motion to continue this hearing to the call of the chair. >> thank you. and so we have a motion to continue this to the call of the chair, with the understanding that we will be bringing this item back in march of next year. but the one question that i would leave out there that i would like to hear more about is that if the city and county of san francisco were to set a goal to erraticate hung

the low cost plan and and we are on the nutritional scale and that, and all of the metrics and so the food and the slice and the government and the value, of the benefits and the other benefits, as well as how far the income goes and equate it also, to dollars, back to the 2 $40 per meal, and it is complicated but i would be happy to talk to you about and share the full report with you. >> and again this four million is probably in i huge under come. >> if it is 180,000 of federal poverty, according to stanford, but we are saying that 200 percent of poverty is where the people are food insecure, so it is more than 74 million. >> that is what you see in that band, is that the people may be spending more of their own income and they also drop out of the eligibility for the government programs xh is why the researchers cut the line at 185 percent. and the other thing, to say, is that in those upper income levels, and there are a lot of difficult choices being made and so between adequate food or healthy food and you know, the quality child care and the safe housing and reliable transportation

. >> i will speak to the urban agriculture piece and the food retail piece and some of our ideas around that. and some of the activities that are going on. in the program for the san francisco league of urban gardeners over a decade and a half ago, and these programs for teaching, and the teaching our children, and our residents, where the food is coming from, so it is really activate and it can make the space and promotes the neighborhood cohesion, and for the maps i believe that the park and rec department is which is now the lead, for the new urban agriculture will have those maps and they work very closely and have an inner agency working group on rolling out that program and it is the department of the environment is part of that group and the department of public health and planning and i do believe that we can get those maps to you and i will let them know after this. and i think that they are really definitely working on creating and getting the strategy to having the labors involved and one of the first high priorities is acting for the resource centers and i am sure, that we c

>> i take my own food on the plane. i always bring my own food. i've taken to bringing some mint with me, and i ask for hot water and put the mint in the hot water. it sends out a scent into the cabin. people ask me questions about what i'm drinking. i love that. i love that idea that i can influence, reach people through an roma. >> that begins the conversation. >> that begins the conversation. i mean, i like to feed people ideas. i also bring it up so i can share it with anybody who's at the seat next to me, but i am, i'm shocked by what people e, what they eat in airports with, how they -- how they how omni present that food is and how accessible, how it's sold to people. i just -- i feel more sorry for the person who's eating it than to really, you know, be angry about it. >> yet the person who's eating that oreo or twinkie or gummi bears, they may feel sorry for you that you're not having any or haven't tried. have you ever just tried them to see what it's like? >> i have tried it. i mean, i certainly tried it when i was a teenager. i've eaten

and we run out and when we run out of money or food stamp and to support the lack of food in the resource, program. and the tender loin, thank you so much. >> next speaker. thank you. >> my name is nancy croft and i have a one page hand out if the people want it and related to the subject of my talk, and i give the copies for the committee but also i have some other copies as the people that like it. >> and i am going to talk about something that has not been addressed here, that i think that they mitigate, and it is very difficulties in the meeting, and meeting the food needs of the people and that is, the policies of the city that are instituted in the practice that increase the welfare load and the people that are not food insecure needing services from the city that are very expensive. mental hel and this physical health. how much money comes to the city compared to the welfare costs treating the people that are addicted and are encourage td in the sros and also in the city shelters. and by the policies, of exemptions of the talking about that subject matter to the client and then to

food that is thrown away. not all consumed and this is a problem and that's why the world food prize was created by dr norman borlaug to find the breakthrough achievements that will deal with all of all of those issues and yet the ambassador queen i think the default course that you are going to say shame is that making is more on our culture and sustainable production of rather than distribution and sustainable management don't you think that it would be wise to shift the focus a few organization and the overall food availability debate not so much on production and advances in technology but rather on the distribution well our organization takes great pride in dealing with all of the issues across the entire food chain and sustainability is absolutely a very top priority and the agro ecological breakthroughs that can help small poor farmers in particular deal with issues have been rewarded with with our prize our founder norman borlaug the nobel peace prize laureate put it this way we have to produce more food. to feed our ever growing population and there's only two ways to do it. one is you grow more food on the

time has passed since then and again the if the food production situation and our relationship with the food has changed and you have this focus on increasing food production stay the same in fact this theme of feeding the hungry is one of the most popular themes among politicians they've been. repeating it over and over again from many many decades and you have the issue of menorahs shm and still remains extremely pressing public health issues so my question she is whether you believe that. this focus on feeding the hungry while certainly having some humanitarian and emotional appeal is a bit outdated maybe a bit populist and i would even add a bit misleading because it does not represent the real problem that the world faces today which is not so much their veil ability of any sort of food but rather their vell ability of high quality food i would disagree with that point i believe that the way we are able to bring people together across great differences whether they're political differences diplomatic ethnic religious racial the way i see that people will come together is when they

well as the sustainable food system. many of you have read in the newspaper that district 10 they have health inequity issues abound. communities in areas like this have been historically been excluded from participation and the results truly have been deadly. in food services like in bayview with a lack of food service market with an over bound of stores selling tobacco and other things but they've helped to strengthen our neighborhood in healthy food access and including our recent efforts open is healthy store initiatives. the baby healthy food is an initiative that was worked with on third with a healthy make over which included shelving no produce benefits and allow a liquor store to over more healthy products to a neighborhood. they offer technical assistance to help the market expand into those healthy options. our community is desperate for you for our service. on above the leadership i commend the guardians to helping us change our environment. thank you supervisor mar >> before the two folks talk antonio couldn'

time has passed since then and again the the food production situation and our relationship with the food has changed and you have this focus on increasing food production stayed the same in fact this this theme of feeding the hungry is one of the most popular scenes among politicians they've been you know repeating it over and over again for many many decades and they have the issue of menorahs shm and still remains extremely pressing public health issues so my question she is whether you believe that. this focus on feeding the hungry while certainly having some humanitarian and emotional appeal is a bit outdated maybe a bit populist and i would even add a bit misleading because it does not represent the real problem that the world faces today which is not so much their veil ability of any sort of food but rather their vell ability of high quality food i would disagree with that point i believe that the way we are able to bring people together across great differences whether they're political differences diplomatic ethnic religious racial the way i see the people will come together

the earth. what is required we have to produce 70% more food than we have today. that eternal won't come easy. >> attendees range from ncos to ngos. one area of focus innovation the usa u.s. is employing now to feed the planet . >> roger shaw, for international development cited new crops and new technologies that are making a difference. >> after a number of years of persistent focus feed the nurture reaches 7 million farmers in more than 19 countries around the world. >> since the inception of the feed the future program in 2009 the agency has focused on encouraging innovations with populations with limited resources. >> these kinds of new science-based products including new tradition butter product that we're distributing to every family and products that we're delivering to families in the horn of africa will very rapidly resuscitate children. it is why during famine and crisis that it used to be the case that 21% of acutely malnourished children would die, today that is down under 5%. >> reporter: food experts know they're racing the clock. more people and mo

obviously when we think about the food that's grown on farms in the u.s. today, those foods are not fresh fruits and vegetables. the majority of the farm output of the united states is a commodity crop that is destined either to be fed to animals, cheap meat or to be turned into fuel or to high fructose corn syrup. what we need to think about is not the diet end of things but the individual person, the scope of responsibility is choices that we have of our own making but too often the food system is carved out by large and powerful corporations to subsidize their products rather than the product that is good for the majority of americans. >> joel can you talk about the subsidies of the farm system and how that plays a role? >> we spend billions of dollars a year of u.s. tax dollars to go to corporate agribusiness. the cato 92 it and the heritage foundation they opposed these subsidies as well. most moderates oppose them as a waste of tax dollars. then why are they still there? why haven't they been seriously are reformed to help small vegetable produces and

why can't we tax the bad food and subsidize the good food? ld we subsidize broccoli, so that it would be in the best interest of the food industry to promulgate it. we could modify behavior through pricing. we always do. the nordic countries have subsidized low alcohol beers and taxed hard spirits in an attempt to solve alcohol problems. they have been successful in terms of car accidents and cirrhosis of the liver. they have done this over 30 years. differential subsidization. we could discount diet soda and tax sugar soda. i am not sure that diet soda is any better, but it sure is not a whole lot worse. this is the thing to remember. the iron law of alcohol policy says reducing the availability of alcohol will reduce alcohol consumption and reduce alcohol-related health harms. the same holds for sugar. the problem is -- how do you get there? how about government agency action. regulation in the food industry by congress is a nonstarter. they are not touching this. there is no way in the world anyone in congress will go at -- will go out on a

food that is thrown away. not all consume and this is a problem and that's why the world food prize was created by dr norman borlaug to find the breakthrough achievements that will deal with all of all of those issues and the ambassador queen i think the defocus that you organization is making is more on our group culture and sustainable production rather than distribution and sustainable management. don't you think that it would be wise to shift the focus a few organizations on the overall food availability debate not so much on production and advances in technology but rather on the distribution well our organization takes great pride in dealing with all of the issues across the entire food chain and sustainability is absolutely a very top priority and the agro ecological breakthroughs that can help small poor farmers in particular deal with issues have been rewarded with with our prize our founder norman borlaug the nobel peace prize laureate put it this way we have to produce more food. to feed our ever growing population and there's only two ways to do it one is you grow more food on the land available or the

the u.s. today, those foods in the u.s. today, those foods are not fresh fruits and are not fresh fruits and vegetables. vegetables. the majority of the farm output the majority of the farm output of the united states is a of the united states is a commodity crop that is destined commodity crop that is destined either to be fed to either to be fed to animals, animals, cheap meat or to be turned into cheap meat or to be turned into fuel or to high fuel or to high fructose corn fructose corn syrup. syrup. what we need to think about is what we need to think about is not the diet end of things but not the diet end of things but the individual person, the scope the individual person, the scope of responsibility is choices of responsibility is choices that we have of our own making that we have of our own making but too often the food system is but too often the food system is carved out by large and powerful carved out by large and powerful corporations to subsidize their corporations to subsidize their products rather than the