Abstract
Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.) is a vegan food justice nonprofit in northern California. We focus on making a more just and sustainable food system for everyone involved. Since injustice in the food system crosses the species barrier, we work to connect the dots between the exploitation of human and nonhuman animals. We focus our efforts on four main areas: ending the use of animals in the food system, improving access to healthy foods in Black, Brown, and low-income communities, exposing the worst forms of child labor (including slavery) in the chocolate industry, and advocating for farmworker rights. These seemingly disparate areas have much in common: they are interlocking forms of oppression, marginalization, and domination in the food system. We recognize that the intersecting nature of oppression necessitates a nuanced response. For example, as an organization working on both farmworker justice and food apartheid, we cannot advocate for lowering the price of food as this would negatively impact produce workers who already suffer grave systemic injustice. Instead, we advocate for equality of access and living wages for everyone.[1] In this piece, we focus on our approach to the lack of access to healthy foods, and specifically our community-based efforts in Vallejo, California.
Highlights
Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.) is a vegan food justice nonprofit in northern California
We focus on making a more just and sustainable food system for everyone involved
Since injustice in the food system crosses the species barrier, we work to connect the dots between the exploitation of human and nonhuman animals
Summary
Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.) is a vegan food justice nonprofit in northern California. We focus our efforts on four main areas: ending the use of animals in the food system, improving access to healthy foods in Black, Brown, and low-income communities, exposing the worst forms of child labor (including slavery) in the chocolate industry, and advocating for farmworker rights. We advocate for equality of access and living wages for everyone.1 In this piece, we focus on our approach to the lack of access to healthy foods, and our community-based efforts in Vallejo, California.
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