Rainforest Action Network
Occupy Our Food Supply is bringing together the Occupy, sustainable farming, food justice, buy local, slow food, and environmental movements for a global day of action on Feb. 27, 2012. Inspired by the theme of CREATE/RESIST, thousands will come together to creatively confront corporate control of our food supply and take action to build healthy, accessible food systems for all.
Industrial agribusiness corporations like Cargill, Monsanto, ADM and Dupont have gained runaway control of our food systems and to take them back, we’ll need all the collective power we can manifest around the world. There are few things more personal than the food we put into our bodies every day. Let’s ensure that we can stand by the food we eat from farm to fork.
Occupy Our Food Supply will be a major decentralized global day of food action and solidarity. Act locally to affect massive change globally—from hosting a sustainable potluck to planning a community garden to organizing a Tour of Shame featuring corporate food polluters in your area.
Register your event to stand up and be counted in the movement to Occupy Our Food Supply, or click the map to find an event near you and email the organizer to get involved.
Sign up to take action on Feb. 27 to Occupy Our Food Supply.
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I’d like to involve locally (San Diego County.) Thanks.
Hi Katsuyo-
So glad you want to participate. It’s easy to take action in a unique way wherever you are!
Just visit the Occupy Our Food Supply website to get inspired ideas, and sign up to register your activity on the map! Then others can find and join you.
Thanks,
Hillary
Instead of canned goods and boxes of mac n chees donated to food pantries, plant a veg garden with the intent to give its bounty away to city rescue missions, food pantries or directly to needy families. Our society has been donating the very worst food to needy people when we should be donating wholesome and healthful food to them. All our produce this year will go free to needy families. That’s what a food community can do! I guarantee you, you’ll gain new supporters this way.
Hebron Acres
Always GMO free!
Participate in farmers co-op and local farmers markets. City Fresh is bringing local farm fresh fruits, vegetables, honey and syrups to the city of Akron, Ohio.
Hebron sure hit that nail on the head. Did anyone ever read the ingredients on the label of standard Mac and Cheese? You might as well buy the folks a quart of terpentine, put that in the pantry and tell them to swizzle that for lunch. It’s pure poison, brought to you by industrial food and GMO purveyors like Monsanto. As it stands now, 90 percent of the processed foods on supermarket shelves set off the immune system because these products contain ingredients which are alien to the human body. As a consequence, consuming these chemicals sets off the inflammatory system, sets up the cortisol cycle which in turn leads to obesity and all of the associated diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimers, and various cancers. Better yet, establish a community outreach program where the needy can grow their own gardens in their own back yards or community plots. Have teaching sessions on gardening, and pass out seeds or seedlings. Help those folks help themselves. Then they can spread the WORD.
We at Coral Springs Community Gardens have been donating food from a reserved section of the garden to local food pantries and I wish this would become a movement…
Occupy sarasota will be protesting february 27th here in florida!