Name: Watch Chipotle’s Periscope Announcement
Uploaded: 2016-02-08
Duration: 1 min 26 s
Description: It was made in response to the recent E. Coli scare.

It's important to us to support small and medium sized farmers whenever we can. However, it may be difficult for some of our suppliers to meet our new food safety standards. But we're there, ready to help them. That's why today I'm proud to announce the Chipotle Local Grower Support initiative. As part of this program Work committee up to 10 million dollars to help local growers provide Chipotle with produce and meats that meet our new food safety protocols. [ APPLAUSE ] This 10 million dollars will enable us to conduct sourcing produce from some of the most. Best local growers around the country. And money will be used to provide safety support and education that's necessary to meet our standards. And to help offset the costs of enhanced testing and food safety practices for some smaller farmers already involved in our produce program. I'm very excited to announce this new program here today. Not only will it help ensure a reliable source of fresh, safe, local produce, it will also help local suppliers be safer in everything that they do. And, that means, even the ingredients that they sell to other companies will be safer. And, that's better for everybody, not just Cortland. [ BLANK_AUDIO ]

Watch Chipotle’s Periscope Announcement

It was made in response to the recent E. Coli scare.