At a September 6 city council meeting in Phoenix, Gallego was blasted by about a dozen grassroots citizens who made it very clear that they do not support her anti-meat policies. After the meeting, Gallego went home and staged a cringeworthy breakfast routine in which she was seen pouring milk into an empty bowl surrounded by a Cheerios box and a knife – because everyone knows you eat cereal with a knife!

It turns out that Gallego quietly, on March 4, 2020, passed what is known as the 2025 Phoenix Food Action Plan. Strategy 2 under Goal 1 of the document contains a "Progress on Action" section, the fifth point of which creates a new Office of Environmental Programs (OEP) at the City of Phoenix to "establish an AgriFood Tech Incubator in 2023 to accelerate ventures in sustainable food systems."