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Council Member Diana I. Ayala remarks on food quality in shelters
2:07:29
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Council Member Ayala shares personal experiences to highlight the importance of food variety and quality, especially in shelters.
- She recounts experiences with repetitive school meals to illustrate her point
- Acknowledges issues of food waste and assumptions that those in need should be grateful for any food
- Appreciates efforts to recognize and address food quality issues in shelters
Diana I. Ayala
2:07:29
Thank you.
2:07:29
That's a really good point.
2:07:31
And I appreciate all of the work they do, and thank you so much for, you know, for the food.
2:07:37
It's it's been an it's been an issue.
2:07:39
And I and I, you know, I I hear it from sometimes from around some of my colleagues, you know, Have you seen how many you know, how much food is being thrown out you know, thrown away in the garbage.
2:07:49
And I'm like, have you eaten the same food every day for 3 months.
2:07:53
I mean, I always remember this is a funny story, but it's I when I was another mentoring school, they used to serve.
2:07:59
There was fish.
2:08:00
I don't know if you have any of you went to a public elementary school where they started this fish that had, like, a a layer of cheese underneath it.
2:08:05
Okay.
2:08:06
That was so good.
2:08:06
It was the It's the bomb.
2:08:09
And when I went to junior high school, we weren't you know, they didn't have that.
2:08:13
They had hamburger every day.
2:08:14
The kids will go across the street because we could go to the Chinese, you know, spot.
2:08:17
They sell these little dollar rice Mhmm.
2:08:19
Boxes.
2:08:19
I'm so I'm aging myself.
2:08:21
And or we could go to the pizzeria, When we got to high school, we couldn't go outside, so we had to eat the food inside.
2:08:28
And they I went in the first day, they had that cheese.
2:08:31
The fish cheese.
2:08:31
And I said, oh my god.
2:08:33
Thank goodness.
2:08:34
I haven't seen day 1, I had it.
2:08:36
Day 2, I had it.
2:08:37
By day 3, I was done with the fish.
2:08:39
I was like, is this every day.
2:08:43
Like, it was that or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
2:08:46
And, you know, so I I get it.
2:08:49
Right?
2:08:49
And it it almost feels like because, you know, because we're poor, because we're coming from a certain community.
2:08:54
We should be grateful that we have something you know, to eat in the first place.
2:08:58
And it's just so you know, it's just wrong.
2:09:01
It's wrong.
2:09:01
And I don't wanna be in the wrong part, you know, side of his you want you know, this this story is told about how we handled the situation.
2:09:08
So I really do appreciate you're taking the time to recognize that.
2:09:13
And make those changes because, you know, it it does make a difference.
2:09:17
Thank you.
2:09:18
Thank you.