Green Foods Resolution

On March 23, the Alexandria, Va. City Council unanimously passed Healthy Food Alexandria (HFA). The initiative sets city-wide environmental and nutritional goals, such as reducing consumption of farm-animal products, permitting farmers’ market goods to be purchased with food stamps, and offering community classes about local foodsheds, gardening, nutrition, and cooking. The resolution is part of Farm Sanctuary’s nation-wide Green Food Resolutions campaign, which focuses on the link between animal agriculture and climate change. Alexandria is the second city in the US to pass such an initiative, following in the footsteps of Signal Mountain, Tenn.