Bloomberg Gets It About Food Policy

As last Wednesday's NYTimes reports in Farewell, French Fries! Hello, Sliced Apples!:

But from a policy perspective, Mr. Bloomberg has taken on more food issues, and provoked more controversy, than any New York mayor before him. As a result, he has the potential to change the way more New Yorkers eat — whether in the haughtiest dining rooms or the poorest home kitchens — than all the city’s food activists and restaurant critics combined...

“The tools are now all in place to achieve significant progress, but it depends on whether the city decides to use the tools,” said Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger and former member of the Clinton administration.

The article states that "Last week, New York state agricultural officials announced that the state would soon have its first food-policy council," which was confimed by a Daily Intelligencer story last Monday. Unfortunately Tracie McMillan of the DI thinks that "minutiae involved in favorite sustainable-food efforts like getting New York State apples to the neighborhood deli and ensuring that community-supported agriculture-buying clubs are affordable to the poor" are mind-numbing...