Baltimore gets food czar
July 8th, 2010 admin
B’more healthy : Baltimore has hired a food policy coordinator, making the city one of the first with a paid “food czar” — although taxpayers aren’t paying her salary, a coalition of nonprofits are, to the tune of just 30 hours a week. Holly Freishtat is charged with “getting more healthy food on the tables of the people who need it,” but she has a tough row to hoe, with no budget and no actual power to do so. As the article puts it, “no matter how impressive her title, Freishtat can’t just talk Safeway into opening a supermarket in the blighted inner city. Nor can she persuade corner store owners to change a business model that’s worked for decades” — one shop owner complained that stocking fresh fruits and vegetables had been a loss …
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