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SLOW FOOD'S

EQUITY, INCLUSION AND JUSTICE MANIFESTO

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We believe food shouldn’t just taste good; it should do good.

Slow Food fights for food justice and we embrace the diversity and deliciousness that this effort fosters. 

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The Embrace Joy + Justice campaign aims to bring more diverse voices to the table, especially those often excluded by the mainstream food movement, and to fund equity, inclusion and justice (EIJ) programming at Slow Food Nations 2019.

 

What is EIJ?

The EIJ working group evolved to bring equity, inclusion and justice to the fore of all Slow Food USA’s activities and to map out how we can build a good, clean and fair food system together — one that truly works for all of us.

By donating to the Embrace Joy + Justice campaign, you can help realize this vision and make Slow Food Nations 2019 the best yet!

Your contributions will support:

immigration and labor, indigenous food traditions, the future of cooperatives, and more

  • Scholarships for Slow Food Turtle Island Association

  • A one of a kind, indigenous dinner and celebration with live music

  • Video recording for broader reach

 

For each donation, we’ll send you a bracelet from the Red Sweater Project. Hand crafted by artisans in this rural Tanzanian community, the bracelets will support the Mungere School’s organic garden and educational programs. 

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HISTORY OF THE EQUITY INCLUSION AND JUSTICE MANIFESTO

Slow Food is embracing equity, inclusion and justice in food with the release of a draft “Equity, Inclusion and Justice Manifesto.” The document acknowledges that “many injustices still exist within our food system. Our local and national work is to dismantle these structures.”

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As Slow Food USA executive director Richard McCarthy notes,“This difficult shift to embrace joy with justice in both words and actions has been led by local chapters who have purposefully invited advocates of color to inform and steer Slow Food work on the ground to address injustices that disproportionately impact the communities most negatively affected by the industrial food system.”

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Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini’s ambitious 2005 book, Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean and Fair provides a formula for the Good, Clean and Fair guiding principles. However, Slow Food USA has struggled to diversify its membership and leadership and to relaunch its brand to reflect a full-fledged commitment to food justice, communities of color and the belief that the spoils of the good food movement are to be enjoyed by all.

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The 2014 launch of Slow Meat assembled allies and Slow Food insiders: ranchers, vegans, women butchers, First Nations herders and the National Latino Farmers and Ranchers Trade Association. The 2015 school garden partnership with Chipotle brought Slow Food into closer contact with national organizations working in underserved public schools. The organization’s 2016 strategic planning process to refocus national efforts on gatherings, campaigns and partnerships opened up the space for new ways to engage new audiences. This has helped the Slow Food Policy Committee, Slow Fish, Slow Food California and other advocacy and social change tendencies within the organization mobilize resources to set a place at the physical and figurative table for young advocates of color to feel welcome and to shape the future of food — and in this case, the future of Slow Food.

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In the years since Slow Food’s 1989 founding Manifesto was written and signed with much fanfare in Paris, the food movement has evolved. When reread today, it is easy to understand why new proclamations are necessary to capture the full breadth of the movement and the values that inspire those to garden, change public policy, and forge community via food. Many new voices have joined Slow Food to articulate equally holistic concerns previously left out of the discourse. The Food Chain Workers Alliance, Good Food For All, the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network and others provide complementary and authentic critiques of a food system shaped by unsustainable desires for scale, speed, efficiency and an innate need to treat people and places as objects from which to extract resources.

 

Not only do we find it deeply encouraging that regenerative alternatives are aligning around some version of good, clean and fair, but that many organizations mirror Slow Food’s desire to express alternative ways to win both hearts and minds of eaters of all walks of life. We are proud of the sharing of the Equity, Inclusion and Justice Manifesto and trust that the commitment to justice will adjoin other poetic and authentic expressions for social change that already exist.

Venue

DETAILS

Private Room Size:  700 SQ Feet

Reception: Garden Outdoor

Capacity: 50 seated, 60 standing 

Plus - Versatile seating configuration, removable furniture, open layout

For privet events inquiries, contact Sofia Le Hall

123-456-7890 // info@mysite.com

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