Food Systems Summit
Jackie Bowen
Clean Label Project
“For us at Clean Label Project, it’s about bridging the gap between the court of law and the court of public opinion. For progressive brands that truly want to align with what consumers want, it's about not just meeting federal law….From our perspective at Clean Label Project it’s about complying with the court of public opinion”
Craig Willingham
CUNY Urban Food Institute
“The Good Food Purchasing Program elevates five core values: nutrition, environmental sustainability, valued workforce, local economies, and lastly, animal welfare, to make sure that when it’s doing business with vendors, that they’re not only behaving as a responsible corporate partner, but they're also slowly nudging the industry overall with respect to food procurement into behaving better”
Ronnie Cummins
Organic Consumers Association
"...The world seems to be waking up to the fact that if we want to solve the climate crisis, and the other interrelated crises that are now so evident--the public health crisis, the deterioration of our environment, the economic plight of half the world’s population who are small farmers or rural villagers--if we want to solve these problems, we have to come together with a systemic solution”