by John Vidal and Claire Provost, Guardian.co.uk(, June 8, 2011) US universities are reportedly using endowment funds to make deals that may force thousands from their land in Africa. Harvard and other major American universities are working through British hedge funds and European financial speculators to buy or lease vast areas of African farmland in […]
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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? […]
SAT May 14, Teach-Out! Seattle Youth Garden Works during Spring into Bed!
Teach-Out Work Party 10 am-2pm, Celebration at Pratt Park 3-6 pm! CAGJ is partnering with Seattle Youth Garden Works for our May Teach-Out as part of the 2nd annual County-wide garden-build, Spring Into Bed! Seattle Youth Garden Works, now housed at Seattle Tilth, empowers homeless and underserved youth through garden-based education and employment. At Seattle […]
Save USDA Conservation Programs – Act Now!
Please Act on this Alert from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. Save USDA Conservation Programs – Act Now! Protect the Water You Drink, Water You Need – Make a Call Washington Congressman Norm Dicks sits on the House subcommittee that decides agriculture funding levels. It’s important that you let him know you oppose cuts to farm […]
