YouthFoodMovement

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The Youth Food Movement is a network of young farmers, cooks, artisans, activists and students that are actively changing the future of food and farming. With the goal of bringing more food that is good clean and fair, to their communities, they realigning local and regional food systems with the principles of justice and sustainability.

Building on the strong foundations of Slow Food, the Youth Food Movement provides shared platforms for communication, knowledge exchange, support for local action and leadership development. Day by day this network works to connect like minds, projects and activism with similar goals and shared philosophy.

Individually we can change communities; together we can change the world.

Already, Youth Food Movement members are:
Starting farms based on traditional methods and sustainable practices
Demanding food justice and equal access to good food for their neighbors
Starting farmer’s markets and gardens on campuses
Organizing Eat – Ins - protest potlucks where good, clean, and fair food is prepared and shared in public spaces
Changing school cafeteria sourcing practices to local, sustainable products
Confronting agribusiness and demanding they change their production methods and workplace standards
And many more…

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