먹거리 대안체계와 공공급식- 서울시 사례분석

Abstract

This study tried to investigate the actual conditions and problems of public plate in Seoul, and propose the principles and criteria of the public plate to be newly designed. In particular, it intended to analyze the possibility of the establishment of an alternative food system through public plate. According to the analysis on the public plate program in Seoul, compared to other cases in European cities, it was neither alternative, nor creative, nor innovative. Above all, the program failed to include the publicness and locality, and balanced nutrition aspects. It just reached the point of providing one meal to the poor in the character of charity. In this sense, to establish an alternative food system through public plate, it is necessary to make a new approach in terms of policy, system, and practice. First, in terms of policy, it is needed to actively find a plan of social integration through public plate. In other words, it is necessary to turn the current selective food charity in the dimension of dispensation into the food system to guarantee universal human rights. Secondly, in terms of practice, it is first required to achieve public consensus on the necessity and systemization of public plate. Since public plate is one of the best policy means to make a sustainable alternative food system, a little more effort can lead into social consensus. Thirdly, it is necessary to establish a new food material procurement system through the institutional compulsion of public procurement. To do that, it is important for local residents to recognize public plate as a way of restructuring their local community, not as a sort of consuming welfare.