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We so appreciate all your donations to our recent School Supply Drive for the children of farm workers! F.E.P. has been coordinating this event for 13 years, and what began as a simple effort to collect and distribute school essentials has grown into a major initiative that takes us months to organize. Thanks to your compassion and generosity, we surpassed our goal and delivered 250 backpacks filled with school supplies last month! Our first distribution location was in Sacramento, where we had 200 backpacks, with the last backpack going to the final child in line (which happened to be the backpack he was hoping for!), allowing us to provide the perfect number of backpacks for every child who attended. Then, with the help of NorCal Resist, this year’s drive expanded to also include the children of migrant workers; Tyra Willis, our communications team member, delivered 50 backpacks to the Central Valley, providing school essentials to a community we have historically supported through this drive. It was important to us that we show our solidarity to migrants, especially during a time where ICE is continuing to kidnap our neighbors. Farm workers feed our communities every day and deserve our solidarity, while migrant families strengthen our communities and neighborhoods. We could not have had such a successful School Supply Drive without you and without the support of many hard-working volunteers.

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Be a part of Food Empowerment Project’s (F.E.P.’s) fourth annual writing and illustration scholarship contest. F.E.P. was established to help liberate, and empower human and non-human animals facing injustice and to spread the importance of eating our ethics.  This contest is open to youth to expand on this year’s theme: “Leading Compassionately: Give Your Choice a Chance for Change”.

It’s back-to-school season, which means college students are returning to campuses across the country. This guide was made to help college students learn how to eat their ethics and advocate for change across their campuses! Order our informative, full-color, 20-page printed guide today!

We are proud to announce that our Vegan Soul Food recipe guide is now available to order! This 48-page, full-color booklet highlights the wide variety of flavor-filled foods from the African diaspora that do not include animal ingredients and showcases that it is possible to eat vegan and still incorporate our traditional favorites. And by launching during Black History Month, we're celebrating the power of the Black community and their resilience in preserving traditions from generation to generation.

First, let’s be clear: There is cruelty inside every animal-based egg produced for consumption. Eggs are among the world’s most ubiquitous foods, but while eggs from chickens may be the type many of us imagine when we think of eggs, there are scores of other types that humans consume—and not all are from birds. Here, then, is an exploration of some of the most popular “exotic” or “specialty” eggs, along with some uncommon ones. (For the purposes of this page, we will not address eggs that are consumed solely for survival.)

Our latest page tackles the issues surrounding consuming insects, worms and other things they make. Now being raised and killed by the trillions for consumption, insects are subjected to many of the same cruelties as chickens, pigs, cows, and other farmed animals, such as cramped housing, poor nutrition, and inhumane slaughter methods, including being frozen, baked, boiled, microwaved, or mechanically shredded—all while still alive.

Food Empowerment Project’s (F.E.P.) Youth Zine, Envision, is here! This Youth Zine is created for youth and by youth as a form of expression to release energy and grow hope!  Youth hold the power to make change, but need cathartic spaces to re-energize themselves to envision a society they are proud of. Envision is designed for all young people who want to learn and strengthen their advocacy for the rights of human and non-human animals.