Journal 10

Loretta Alexander
March 31, 2008
HUM 3500
Freeda Burnstad

Journal 10

Yes, we are advocating for policy changes. One of the key issues to making access to healthy, nutritious local foods a sustainable endeavor, is to get local institutions to change their purchasing policies and demand more local fresh foods. However, as businesses and public institutions, they will not change unless there is significant demand for change. Even though there already exist a number of people clamoring for change, it will take much larger numbers of people to demanding the change. These larger numbers are not going to demand local, healthy produce unless they have direct experience growing and eating it, earning more money by producing their own food, and questioning why. Policy change is important, for me, the most important and effective agent of change comes from a ground swelling of demand from below.