Advocacy For Ethical Eating

Individual action is incredibly important. When we walk our talk, others may join us. Some policies make it hard for people to make the right choice. Advocacy gives us an opportunity to lift up our voices and create the systemic changes necessary for justice.

Here’s what you can do around Ethical Eating right now:

• Take Action for Fair Food with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers Ask grocery store and restaurant corporations to sign agreements committing to buy tomatoes from farms that provide farm workers a fair wage and dignified working conditions.
• Take Action on Federal Community Food Security Policy Information on several federal policies and an advocacy tool kit for community food issues ranging from food safety to child nutrition to urban agriculture.
• Give Kids the School Food They Deserve with Slow Food. Child obesity threatens our children's health and our country's future. Serving healthier food for school lunch is a big part of the solution – but schools can't do it unless Congress passes a strong Child Nutrition Act. Please tell your legislators to invest in healthier food, strengthen nutrition standards and link schools to local farms. Feel free to edit the letter – it shows you care about this issue. (March 2012: This campaign is over and original link is invalid; here is the link to Slow Food's Children and Food page.)