Food Security and Justice

We provide community access to nutritious, affordable, and culturally-appropriate food for all, while advocating for the well-being and safety of the land, workers, and animals. We are committed to building a resilient food system that is just, intergenerational, ecologically regenerative, rooted in community, and centered around the land.

The dominant food system leaves many Americans undernourished and unhealthy — especially those low-income communities of color. Food insecurity and high rates of diet-related disease correlate with poverty, which disproportionately impacts people of color. This is no coincidence. Discriminatory and inequitable policies have left historically-oppressed peoples to start off with less wealth, property, and opportunity than white people. The food system itself is built on centuries of exploitation of people of color.

Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and stroke are among the most common causes of illness, disability, and death in the US. The factors that lead to these chronic conditions, including lack of access to healthy food, can be more common for minority groups. Indigenous Americans are 60 percent more likely to be obese than US Caucasians. The rate of diagnosed diabetes is 77 percent higher among African-Americans, 66 percent higher among Latine, and 18 percent higher among Asian-Americans than among Caucasians. Weight does not equal health. Diet culture is toxic and harmful, and that is not what we are discussing here.

We see healthy food as a human right. Through re-establishing Indigenous culture and foodways that have been destroyed by colonization and displacement, and by reclaiming our health, we aim to address structural barriers to that right.