Animal Justice
Animal justice promotes a world where animals are respected, protected, and free.
Why It’s Essential:
Industrial animal agriculture is detrimental to the earth and all who share it, human and nonhuman. It is inefficient, toxic on a global level, and a cause of immense suffering.
Food Justice
Food justice recognizes the rights of communities to grow, sell, and eat fresh, affordable nutrient-dense food that supports local cultures and is produced with care for the land and everyone it sustains.
Why It’s Essential:
The food justice movement evaluates the structural roots of our food system to address disparities in food access, which most often affect communities of color and low-income communities. Food justice drives community-led solutions to solve food and nutrition insecurity by asking questions about our relationship to food that consider agricultural practices, land ownership, distribution of resources, workers’ rights, and historical injustices.
People Power/Organizing
Organizing is about people, power, and change. It’s an approach to leadership that enables people to turn the resources they have into the power they need to make the change they seek.
Why It’s Essential:
When we organize, we can achieve three types of victories: making an external change, building collective capacity, and developing leaders. We must develop the next leaders working to transform the food system in diverse communities, people who can spearhead initiatives to achieve meaningful change.
A Just and Sustainable Food System for All
Animal justice, food justice, and people power are all central to our collective mission of constructing a just and sustainable food system for all.
