Summary Description
- Improves the standards on the City's Good Food Purchasing Program by reducing meat from menus and offering more vegan and plant-based options.
- TopicThe topic of the legislation or policy covered by the text
- Alternative ProteinsPublic procurement
- SpeciesThe animal, or type of food production, covered by the text
- Farmed animals
- JurisdictionCountry or geographical area where the text applies
- USA
- Sub-jurisdictionCountry or state where the text applies
- Los Angeles
- Type of ActWhether the act is a law, regulation, or policy, or another type of text
- Motion
- StatusIndicates whether the act is in force or not
- Bill proposal
- Legal ValueWhether the text is binding or not
- N/A
- Date enactedDate the text was adopted
- 2013
- Date updatedDate when the entry was last updated by the CALF team
- June, 2023
- Official citation
- Los Angeles Health, Education and Neighborhood Council, Motion of December 5th, 2013 (U.S.A.)
Strengths & Weaknesses
- Strengths
- Explicitly states that City departments should be "reducing meat from menus and offering more vegan and plant-based options" and addresses "vegan proteins."
- Proposes to ensure that vegan protein options are widely available to meet the needs of all in the City in both public and private venues including airports.
- Proposes that City departments could improve their standing within the City's Good Food Purchasing Program by reducing meat from menus and offering more vegan and plant-based options.
- Further proposes that:
- The Department of Recreation and Parks, the Zoo and other relevant departments to have vegan protein entr�e options available at an ongoing basis at City concessionaire locations.
- The Department of Aging to have vegan protein entr�e food options available for the Meals on Wheels program for seniors.
- Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) to study the feasibility of putting a restaurant with a plant-based menu in each terminal, with all other restaurants at LAX to provide, at minimum, one easily-identifiable vegan protein entr�e.
- The Chief Legislative Analyst, Department of Recreation and Parks, the Zoo and the City Attorney draft an ordinance that would require some private spaces such as movie theatres and large-scale entertainment venues in the City, which provide food for sale, provide at a minimum one vegan protein entr�e food option on their menus.
- Weaknesses
- Focuses on enlarging vegan options, but does not provide measures reducing the serving of meat.