No Chinese bat soup for you!
Posted on 09/29/2022 4:10:07 PM PDT by lowbridge
Public institutions in California will have to opt for American-made food products starting Jan. 1, 2024 under a bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Senate Bill 490 states that public institutions, including schools, need to budget for and purchase American-made foods unless they are more than 25% of the cost of imported ones.
“This Buy American policy will benefit the California agricultural industry and agricultural workers, as well as the students and teachers consuming these meals in our schools,” Newsom said in a signing statement for this bill.
While the agricultural industry supports the measure, some school districts argued their food budget will increase if they are required to comply with the Buy American Food Act.
Bill author state Sen. Anna Caballero, a Democrat currently representing the Salinas Valley and parts of the San Joaquin Valley, previously said the state had allocated $611.8 million to help school districts cover that extra cost.
However, Troy Flint, spokesperson for the California School Boards Association, said the association fought for the $611.8 million to cover the already increasing prices schools are facing to comply with the state’s Universal Meals Program, not Caballero’s bill.
“Because California is now serving meals to all students, school districts are hiring more staff for the nutrition program and converting part-time staff to full-time and incurring significant additional costs in terms of salaries and benefits,” Flint told The Bee earlier this month.
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Gavin can be a capable administrator, but at age 54, Gavin remains as impulsive, presumptuous and inconsiderate as a teenager. I recall him back in 2008 saying he was promoting a proposition on Gay Marriage whether the majority of voters was “ready or not!”
no bananas are foreign made but American made cockroaches are OK to serve.
purchase American-made foods unless
What a flim flam man.
Goya Foods is headquartered in New Jersey...
Ironic since he’s about killing California farmer’s livelihood.
Golly gee, sounds like America First!
Perhaps he meant food from Central and South America.
every state should source everything possible from their home state let alone the USA...
You are probably correct. That would make more sense.
Cartels are stealing lots of water for the weed grows in the mountains and desert
Finally something I can agree with Gavin Newsom on. Is it the end of the world?
School lunch: Kale salad topped with chia seeds. Fat free non dairy cheese slice 12 grain chapati. Bowl of hot okra with eggplant and topped with yarrow and sage. Soy milk carton.
he is running for president
What else is in the bill?
OR FERTILIZER
WERE they EVER delivered????
IIRC-—NO
In California this probably means ‘no burritos’.
sounds like Gavin is a racist xenophobe who hates foreign food.
No Chinese bat soup for you!
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