Inspiration
Feed the Truth has a deep admiration for a wide range of organizations, communities, and individuals fighting for food sovereignty and a healthier, more just food system.
Here are but a few we hope you, too, will be inclined to support and follow.
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is a worker-based organization protect human rights by holding corporate supply chains accountable for farm labor exploitation, slavery, and gender-based violence.
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Corporate Accountability is working to stop transnational corporations from devastating democracy, trampling human rights, and destroying the planet. Its vision is to build a world rooted in justice where corporations answer to people.
The Food Chain Workers Alliance is a coalition of worker-based organizations in the US and Canada representing 375,000+ workers in food supply chains. It is challenging companies to improve wages and working conditions to build a sustainable food system that respects workers’ rights based on social, environmental, and racial justice.
The Fight for $15 campaign is a global movement to challenge low-wage employers to raise minimum wages to $15 per hour and allow workers to unionize. The movement started in 2012 with a strike by 200+ fast food workers and has since expanded to support underpaid workers in childcare, higher education, retail, and more.
The Health, Environment, Agriculture, and Labor (HEAL) Alliance is a multi-sector, multi-racial coalition of 55 organizations that is holding the food industry accountable through organizing, research, and policy advocacy. Its mission is to create food and farm systems that are healthy, accessible, affordable, fair, and protects the environment.
One Fair Wage is a national coalition, campaign, and organization driving industry change by ensuring all workers are paid the full minimum wage in the service sector.
The Real Food Challenge mobilizes students to challenge their universities in sourcing foods that are fair, humane, and sustainable and to create a healthy, fair, and green food system.
SumOfUs is a global consumer watchdog organization that mobilizes people and campaigns to curb the power of corporations.
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UCFW) is a labor union representing 1.3 million workers in the US and Canada. Its goal is to raise standards for wages, benefits, working conditions, and worker rights in the industries they represent.
The United Farm Workers is a union seeking to improve working conditions and rights for workers in the agricultural sector, primarily in California, in order to create a safe and just food supply.
