MAINE PUBLIC • May 19, 2020
Good Shepherd Food Bank President Kristen Miale: “I would love to see a more concentrated effort to support more regional food systems. The Northeast Region still imports something like more than 80% of our food and imports it not only from other parts of the country, but largely from other parts of the world. All of the agriculture supports that our country does is for massive, huge scaled, ag businesses. Medium sized farms are aren’t helped by the way our ag policy is set up. It’s really just the massive agribusinesses that we just don’t have here in New England. So that’s what I’d like to see change is just a real policy shift to recognizing the value of supporting regional food systems.”