Why is the minimum wage issue important for food justice advocates?
Photo Credit: Restaurant Opportunities Center
By Leah Scrivener
Workers tell Wal-Mart to get in line: Now it’s time for the food justice movement to get in line with the workers
By Ashley Pinkerton
Hunger is Political: Food Sovereignty Prize Honors Social Movements
By Tanya Kerssen
William Means speaking at the Food+Justice=Democracy meeting today
By Eric Holt-Giménez
What's happening in Brooklyn with food justice and fun?
By Jennifer Johns, Artist in Residence at Food First
Last week I performed and hosted the first annual Chop It Up event presented by Wholesome Wave, a Connecticut based food justice organization that works to support farmers markets in low income communities across the United States. IT WAS AWESOME!!! Lots of amazing food and talent. This event attracted the usual and not so usual food justice folks to eat, dance and laugh all in the name of healthier communities. I had a BLAST!
GM labeling comes to California: The right to know versus the right to impose
By Oliver James
Monsanto World’s Definition:
“Proprietary information,” n.
1. Something we publicly identify in order to charge royalties, then hide from the public in order to keep our market.
This November, Californians will vote on Proposition 37, “The Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act,” on whether or not to label food made with genetically modified ingredients. While not the first (this year’s Connecticut labeling initiative got squashed by Agribusiness) the CA initiative will undoubtedly be the most contested yet.
The Farm Bill: A Caricature of Contradiction
By Ashley Pinkerton,
August 3, 2012
Fast Food with Integrity: The CIW Calls on Chipotle to support the Fair Food Agreement
By Oliver James
A Disturbing Trend
A blog post by Malik Yakini reprinted from Be Black and Green.
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: Nothing New About Ignoring Africa's Farmers
By Eric Holt-Giménez, originally published by Huffington Post, May 23, 2012
President Barack Obama wants to convince the world that he is actually a liberal after all.
Occupy the Farm: Democracy for Land Grant Universities
By Eric Holt-Giménez, Executive Director, Food First
Huffington Post Blog, May 8, 2012
"Here, we are learning democracy through farming... by taking back a public good that our public university wants to privatize," said a volunteer at the information booth for "Occupy the Farm," the current protest at the University of California's five-acre Gill Tract research station.
Do corporations have too much power over what we eat?
Yvette Cabrera and Agnes Bridge Walton
Food Sovereignty in Action at the Gill Tract in Albany, California USA
Report by Food First intern, Vishrut Arya. April 24, 2012
This past Sunday, April 22, Earth Day, about two hundred farmers, families, and activists gathered for a potluck at Ohlone Park in Berkeley to celebrate the Earth and food sovereignty.
The idea of Food sovereignty, promoted by the international small farmer movement, La Via Campesina is that communities have the right to control their own equitable and sustainable food systems, including access to land, fresh water, and seed.
The Fight for Real Food in Korea
By Anders Riel Muller
First published in Korean Quarterly, Winter 2012
My first time eating Korean-style food in Seoul was a disappointing experience. I went to a well-known barbecue place in the Hongdae neighborhood that many of my adoptee friends recommended. There was nothing wrong with the meat (Canadian not American as the waitress stressed), but there were only a couple panchan (side dishes) that were not very exciting. Perhaps, I thought, I had been spoiled during my other two visits to Korea, visiting my family and touring the East coast and Jeju Island.