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Transforming Our Food System

Food Sovereignty Now | 27.06.2012 10:00 | Culture | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

Join us for two days of strategy discussions and action planning aimed at strengthening the movement for a democratic, sustainable and fair food system in the UK and globally.

Transforming Our Food System
Transforming Our Food System


Sunday 8 and Monday 9 July
Organiclea growing site, Hawkwood Community Plant Nursery
115 Hawkwood Crescent, Chingford, London E4 7UH

For more info and to register:  http://www.foodsovereigntynow.org.uk/

Are you a food producer, organic farmer, allotment holder, anti-supermarket campaigner, rural food worker, food activist, health worker or food lover? Are you setting up a food co-operative, buying food from a local producer, volunteering in a community garden? Then join us to develop the global movement for food sovereignty here in the UK.

Food sovereignty is an alternative food system that creates practical, sustainable and democratic solutions to the failed industrialised food model. The current system dispossesses small-scale food producers and creates health and environmental crises while increasing the profits of big corporations. Yet in every continent, millions of producers and consumers are involved in trying to make their vision of a better food system a reality.

This event is about planning the future of the movement for food sovereignty in the UK. We want to:
• Celebrate the struggle for food sovereignty already underway in the UK, in Europe and globally;
• Strengthen local actors to take control of their food system;
• Build a sense of common purpose and understanding, as well as a joint agenda for action;
• Inspire and motivate people and organisations to work together.

Another food system is possible. Let’s make it happen!

Free campsite space and help with travel costs for long journeys is available.
See www.foodsovereigntynow.org.uk for details.

Event supporters include: Soil Association, Friends of the Earth, Permaculture Association, Youth Food Movement, Transition Towns, Reclaim the Fields, World Development Movement, Pig Business, Peasant Evolution Producers Co-operative, ACORD, World Family, GM Freeze, UK Food Group, Scottish Crofters Federation, Organiclea, Community Food Growers Network, Gaia Foundation, War on Want, Nourish Scotland.

Food Sovereignty Now
- e-mail: info@foodsovereigntynow.org.uk
- Homepage: http://www.foodsovereigntynow.org.uk/

Comments

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Vegan ?

27.06.2012 10:17

Is this a Vegan only event ?

interested


Vegan food is not our focus

27.06.2012 11:46

This is an event that covers all foods not just those covered by extreme diets like Veganism.

Food Sovereignty Now
mail e-mail: info@foodsovereigntynow.org.uk
- Homepage: www.foodsovereigntynow.org.uk


Shame

27.06.2012 12:38

I do not support events where dead animal flesh is present.

interested ( no longer )


Vegans

27.06.2012 13:12

"I do not support events where dead animal flesh is present."

and I enjoy events where smug, sanctimonious vegans are absent.

Won't be missing you


really

27.06.2012 21:57

only a vegan diet will save our planet. If you're against it you need educating. Use the internet and stop thinking about your fucking taste buds.

me


Is this for real

27.06.2012 22:08

"is an event that covers all foods not just those covered by extreme diets like Veganism."

Extreme??? You mean a natural human diet? Try catching anything with your hands. Try biting any animal with your teeth. Try sucking on a cows teat and see how you get on. And saying we have the intelligence to catch, imprison and kill for our diet means it's ok doesn't cut it. If you think like that you can justify anything including nuclear holocaust.

hOPPY


The problem with advocating veganism/vegetarianism for saving the planet

28.06.2012 17:00

Food production under the current system is unsustainable and driven by profit rather the good of people and the planet. This applies to the production of all foods, including vegetables.
So switching to a vegan based diet does not opt oneself out of a system that harms the planet.

Dan Factor


is veganism a joke

28.06.2012 22:08

"is an event that covers all foods not just those covered by extreme diets like Veganism."

Extreme??? You mean a natural human diet? Try catching anything with your hands. Try biting any animal with your teeth. Try sucking on a cows teat and see how you get on. And saying we have the intelligence to catch, imprison and kill for our diet means it's ok doesn't cut it. If you think like that you can justify anything including nuclear holocaust.
hO


Yes, Extreme. And unnatural.
Our evolution is based on a hunter/gather lifestyle. We only started farming and eating more grains etc when we started farming in the last 10,000 years, which is basically a fractional blip in our evolutional period.

Most of our evolutionary 'ape' cousins have meat in their diet.
They catch it by hand. They had done so for many thousands of years.

Veganism has been around for like a few hundred years.

jokey joke joker


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