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Food Justice Project

"Food justice is everyone having enough to eat; healthy food for our children; food that doesn’t contain harmful things that we don’t know about; freedom to grow our own food; ability to buy food directly from farmers; fair wages for those who grow, cook and work with food." —Urban & Environmental Policy Institute

The Food Justice Project meets the 2nd Tuesday of the month. Please contact Teresa at fjp@seattleglobaljustice.org to find out more and help organize!

Food Justice Links

  • A Growing Movement
  • Lettuce Link
  • Urban Farm Project

The Food Justice Project is currently developing an overarching analysis for CAGJ of the global food economy, as well as strategizing about what our outcomes should be for this organizing. Building a coherent analysis is the first step in providing the base for building a campaign, or multiple campaigns, that remain committed to the goal of strengthening local economies everywhere.

Our initial analysis identifies the multiple impacts of the industrial model of agriculture on our local communities. Industrial Agriculture is analyzed to encompass Neoliberal Economic Policy, Corporate Consolidation, Monoculture, and Commodification, with clear impacts to the environment, human health, and individuals who are oppressed and displaced by this system. In particular, we are concerned with making just and sustainably produced food accessible to many, and not just those with privilege. All those involved in the production and distribution of food should benefit in equitable ways, not an elite few in the global industrial food system. We are also working to understand the role of immigrants in our local food system and are committed to ensuring that organizing on labor and immigrant rights issues will be integral to future campaigns. We seek to understand the ways race, gender, ethnicity, and class impact and exacerbate the situation of both food workers and food consumers in Washington State. Our analysis also situates our work in the context of global social movements for food sovereignty as well as the local work being done to create an alternative vision of agriculture. We aim to work in solidarity with other organizations on concrete projects which seek to create justice in the food system.

The Food Justice Project plans a number of community engagement activities to educate ourselves and the community about the costs of the industrial food system, while also providing examples and opportunities for change. We are planning a fall teach-in, a food justice film series, and community potluck discussions to begin our work in these areas. In this way we aim to partake in educating and invigorating a local food justice movement in and beyond Seattle.

Food Justice Blog Posts

CAGJ announces plans for December Teach-in!

CAGJ is excited to announce that plans are shaping up for our fall teach-in “Confronting the Food Crisis: Cultivating Just Alternatives to the Corporate Food System.” 
The free event will take place Friday, December 5th and Saturday, December 6th and will feature hands-on workshops and panels that help us to Understand Corporate Control and Build Just Alternatives with [...]

Thanks for making our annual Movie in the Park a success!

Our annual Movie in the Park event on September 13th, in partnership with Lettuce Link and hosted by Marra Farm, was great! About 80 people enjoyed roasted corn, a potluck, and films focusing on radical food politics in Cuba and the autonomous Zaptista communities in Mexico. Thank you to everyone who came, and [...]

WTO Talks Fail Again

Another round of World Trade Organization talks collapsed on July 29th, largely due to India’s insistence that they be able to protect farmers from a surge of agricultural imports from rich nations. Efforts to complete the “Doha” Round of negotiations, begun in 2001, have continually failed, as countries of the Global South have insisted [...]

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