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Yesterday’s Occupy Our Food Supply global day of action was by all accounts a resounding success. The day included more than 100 events across the globe that united an unprecedented alliance of more than 60 Occupy groups and 30 environmental, food justice, and corporate accountability organizations. It also featured prominent voices including Indian environmentalist Vandana [...]
Continue reading...By Guest, February 27 2012
We are the 2% we call farmers. We are not out carrying banners and marching on Wall Street, we are on the land, in our fields, planting seeds, cultivating crops, nurturing livestock, harvesting the food that nourishes a nation. We are the 2%. There are far more people in prison than growing our food, more [...]
Continue reading...By Guest, February 27 2012
The biggest corporate takeover on the planet is the hijacking of the food system, the cost of which has had huge and irreversible consequences for the Earth and people everywhere. From the seed to the farm to the store to your table, corporations are seeking total control over biodiversity, land, and water. They are seeking [...]
Continue reading...By Ashley Schaeffer, February 23 2012
Just days before the massive global day of action to Occupy our Food Supply, I thought I’d take a look at just who some of these agribusiness thugs really are. The deeper you dig the more clear it becomes that two corporate giants are responsible for a large part of the poisoning of our food [...]
Continue reading...By Jenn Breckenridge, February 19 2012
Occupy Our Food Supply‘s Social Media Day of Action will join incredible healthy food advocates—including Michael Pollan, Marion Nestle, Willie Nelson, and Anna Lappé—with Occupy activists, social media influencers and people like you to occupy social networks on February 27 with a vision of just, local, sustainable food systems while calling out the short-sighted and [...]
Continue reading...By Jenn Breckenridge, February 19 2012
Occupy Our Food Supply‘s Blogger Day of Action on February 27 will join luminaries of the food movement—like Dr. Vandana Shiva, Anna Lappe, Michael Ableman, and Raj Patel—with journalists and bloggers throughout the nation to culminate in a chorus of voices calling for the reclamation of our food systems from industrial agribusiness giants Cargill, Monsanto, [...]
Continue reading...By Ashley Schaeffer, February 17 2012
In just over a week’s time, thousands of people will descend on our food system by participating in a Global Day of Action to Occupy our Food Supply. Prominent thought leaders, authors, farmers and activists like Vandana Shiva, Michael Pollan, Annie & Willie Nelson, Woody Harrelson, Raj Patel, Gary Paul Nabhan, Anna Lappé, Marion Nestle, [...]
Continue reading...By Jenn Breckenridge, February 14 2012
Occupy Our Food Supply is bringing together over 60 Occupy groups from across the country, in addition to sustainable farming, food justice, buy local, slow food, and environmental groups, for a global day of action on February 27, 2012. Want to join healthy food advocates Michael Pollan, Anna Lappe, and Marion Nestle in the #F27 [...]
Continue reading...By Ashley Schaeffer, February 14 2012
Did you buy chocolates today for someone you love? Take a quick second to scan the ingredients for palm oil and palm kernel oil. These controversial ingredients are no symbol of love. A majority of the world’s palm oil comes from Indonesia and Malaysia, where thriving rainforests—home to ancient Indigenous communities, majestic creatures, and flora [...]
Continue reading...By Chelsea Matthews, February 10 2012
Update: Occupy Cargill’s Phone Lines on #F27 If you can’t physically occupy a Cargill facility (see below), here is a quick and easy way to make a big difference just by picking up the phone. If you’d like to go into greater detail beyond the script, check out our new Cargill factsheet. 1) Call 1 [...]
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By Hillary Lehr, February 28 2012
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