SIGNATORIES

v2.2 - last updated 7/2/26

Unions and Labor Groups

• 🍎🍏District Council 37 (DC37)

• 🍎🍏The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU)

• 🍎🍏United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)

• Brandworkers

• 🍎🍏Food Chain Workers Alliance 

• 🍏Alianza Agrícola 

• 🍏Northeast NY Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (NENYCOSH)

• 🍏Worker Justice Center of New York (WJCNY)

• United Farm Workers (UFW)
  

Farms, Food Distributors, and Farmer-Member Organizations

• Andrew Tedder, Hilltop Hanover Farm

• Antonisha Owens, Farmer

• Bill Bredderman, Proprietor/Owner, Twin Ponds Farm

• 🍏Black Farmers United NYS, representing 155+ farmers and members

• Cherie Whitten, Whitten Family Farm

• Common Threads Farm

• 🍏Elizabeth Henderson, Farmer

• Eugene Thalmann, Farmer

• Farmers for Animals, Communities & the Environment Ag Network

• Finca Seremos

• Haidee Sticpewich, Farmer

• 🍏Headwater Food Hub

• Jayelle Hoffman, Farmer

• Jessica Federici, Farmer

• Jim Gale, Farmer

• Keturah A. Gilbert, Farmer

• Lee Christie-Irvin, Emerald Farm

• Lindsay McDonnell, Farmer

• Mark Stonehill, Full Circus Farm

• Monti Lawson, Farmer, Catalyst Collaborative Farm

• Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust (NEFOC)

• 🥕🍏Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY), representing 2,000+ farmer members

• Tammy Bowman, Farmer

• 🍎🍏The Common Market 

• Wendy Burkhart-Spiegel, Farm Manager

• Zachary Metzger, Laughing Earth Farm

Municipalities & Local Government Officials

• Mayor Sean M. Ryan, Mayor of Buffalo

• Mayor Gary McCarthy, Mayor of Schenectady

• Mayor Joseph Ferris, Mayor of Hudson

• Mayor Steven Noble, Mayor of the City of Kingston

• Mayor James P. Ryan, Mayor of the Village of Montour Falls

• Office of the Brooklyn Borough President (NYC) – Antonio Reynoso

• Jen Metzger, Ulster County Executive

• Lawrence Dupre, Erie County Legislator

• Michelle Ostrelich, Schenectady County Legislator

• Rachel Ostlund, Tompkins County Legislator

• Iris Packman, Tompkins County Legislator
  

Food Councils and Regional Coalitions

• 🍏Adirondack Food System Network (AFSN)

• Broome County Food Council

• 🥕Food Policy Council of Buffalo & Erie County

• 🍏Good Food Buffalo Coalition 

• Healthy Kids Coalition 

• 🍏Hudson Valley Food Systems Coalition 

• 🍏Rochester Food Policy Council 

• Schenectady County Food Council 

• 🍏Syracuse-Onondaga Food Systems Alliance (SOFSA)

• Tompkins Food Future
  
  

Other Individual & Organizational Supporters

• Adirondack North Country Association

• Alexina Cather, Wellness in the Schools

• Amanda Pitman

• 🍏American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)

• Amy Loritali

• Andrea Pitio

• Ann Sharpe

• Anthony Cucchiara

• Anthony Del Plato, Chef/Owner A Stone’s Throw

• 🍎Bronx Health REACH

• 🍏Casa Visco

• Catskills Agrarian Alliance 

• 🍏Center for Agricultural Development & Entrepreneurship (CADE)

• 🍏Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)

• Chelsea Wood

• 🍎🍏City Harvest 

• Coalition for Healthy School Food

• 🍎🍏Community Food Advocates

• Corbin Hill Food Project

• 🍎🍏CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute 

• Deep Routes

• Denise Knight

• 🍎🍏Earthjustice 

• Eleanor Revenaugh

• Emily Liebelt

• 🍏Environmental Advocates of New York (EANY)

• 🍎Equity Advocates

• 🍏Farm Sanctuary 

• 🍏Feast Kitchen, LLC

• 🍏Feeding New York State

• Feeding Westchester

• Felicia Wong, Government Grant Administrator, 4FS Consulting

• 🥕Field & Fork Network

• Food Bank for New York City 

• Food Bank of Central New York

• 🥕🍏Food for the Spirit 

• Giselle Martinez

• 🍏Glynwood Center for Regional Food & Farming

• 🍏Health Care Without Harm 

• Hudson Valley Food Hub 

• Ileana Vargas

• 🍎Interfaith Public Health Network

• 🍏Island Harvest Food Bank

• Jennifer Dierdorf

• Jerry Rivers, North American Climate, Conservation and Environment (NACCE)

• Jori Wekin, Old Pharmacy Building

• Kandis Paolone, Saratoga Life & Health Plans LLC

• Kayla Cervantes

• Kingston Emergency Food Collaborative

• Lana Dee Povitz, Associate Professor of History, Middlebury College

• Laura Cook, Cook Family Enterprises, LLC

• 🍏Lenox Hill Neighborhood House

• Linda Knipper

• Long Island Cares, Inc. - The Harry Chapin Food Bank

• 🥕Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP)

• Michael Sweeney, Steward, Stewardship Party

• Natalia Zukerman

• 🍎🍏Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

• New York Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (NYSAWG)

• Patricia Eaton

• Rachel Laster

• 🍏Real Food Media

• Rebecca Berlant

• Regina Blakeslee

• Riverside Natural Foods

• Sara Dougherty

• Shawn Bishop

• Stuart Bullock

• 🍏Teens for Food Justice 

• Terrapin Consulting 

• The Alliance for a Hunger Free New York 

• The Center for Good Food Purchasing

• TOUCH-Together Our Unity Can Heal

• 🥕VOICE Buffalo

• West Valley Farms and Camp Sites

• 🍎🍏World Animal Protection

• 518Foods, LLC