Food Justice Project Meeting: Confronting Racism in the Food System and Food Movement TUES AUG 16, 6:30-9PM Location: 23rd Ave S and Jackson St, 309 23rd Ave S 98144, the NELA Center for Student Success Please join us for our next meeting in August, where we will engage in a facilitated discussion about racism and […]
Category Archives: Food Justice Blog Posts
GMOs Coming to Parks and Lawns Near You
By Reid Mukai, CAGJ Co-Chair On the Friday before 4th of July Weekend the USDA discreetly dropped a bombshell. They announced that their Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) would not regulate Scotts Miracle-Gro’s genetically engineered Kentucky bluegrass which is resistant to Roundup herbicide (Scotts is Monsanto’s exclusive agent for marketing and distribution of […]
SAT Aug 6: Cafe Justicia-A Food Justice Secret Cafe
Cafe Justicia (A Food Justice Secret Cafe) Support the scholarship fund of the Food, Farms, and The Roots of Migration Delegation to Oaxaca, Mexico this September! Several of CAGJ’s members are attending, and they need help fundraising! When: Saturday, August 6th at 7pm Where: In the garden of Heather Day’s home, in Madison Valley What: […]
National call-in day to President Obama on June 22, 2011
Stand up for family farmers and ranchers, the environment, and access to healthy food for consumers by participating in a GIPSA national call-in day to President Obama on June 22, 2011!!!!!! Major US meatpacking companies routinely underpay family farms for their animals to show favoritism to factory farms. GIPSA (the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards […]
Food Justice Trivia Night!
Monday, June 27th 7 – 9pm Hopvine Pub 507 15th Ave E $3-5 sliding scale per player, teams of up to 6 Come learn and share what you know about food politics – and see how you stack up against fellow players. How many chickens can you keep in Seattle? What’s a “brassica”? What food […]
Genetic Diversity and Food Security
Food Ark (by Charles Siebert, National Geographic, July, 2011) This is worth a read — “A crisis is looming: To feed our growing population, we’ll need to double food production. Yet crop yields aren’t increasing fast enough, and climate change and new diseases threaten the limited varieties we’ve come to depend on for food. Luckily […]
Teach-Out Report! Cascadian Edible Landscapes
By Courtney Lawson, Food Justice Project Intern April 24th was an Easter Sunday, but that didn’t stop the spirits of the CAGJ enthusiasts who ventured to Cascadian Edible Landscape’s property in South Seattle. Michael Seliga, founder of Cascadian Edible Landscapes (CEL), and his wife Stephanie (the program manager of the Just Garden Project) were the […]
Raw Milk Gets Raw Deal From Feds
By Reid Mukai, CAGJ Co-Chair After a two year undercover surveillance operation and an armed pre-dawn raid by U.S. Marshals one year ago, the feds finally got their man and shut down his operations. Their target was not an alleged terrorist mastermind nor drug warlord but Amish dairy farmer Dan Allgyer. His crime? Distributing harmless […]
CAGJ attends CFSC’s “Food Policy From Neighborhood to Nation” Conference in Portland, OR
By Chris Iberle, Food Justice Project Co-Chair On May 19-21st, 2011 I had the honor of attending the Community Food Security Coalition’s first policy-focused conference, bringing together food policymakers, food policy council participants, activists from varying sectors of the food movement, farmers, food workers, and experts on food policy for three days of learning and […]
MON 5/23 Food Justice: A Social Movement Takes Root
Join us for a dialogue with “Food Justice” co-author Robert Gottlieb Monday, May 23 · 7:00pm – 8:30pm – FREE Location: Architecture Hall at UW, on the corner of Grant Lane and Stevens Way, East of the intersection of 15th Ave. NE and NE 40th St. …What is food justice? How would we define it? […]
