Our annual School Supply Drive for the Children of Farm Workers and Migrants has started!

Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.)’s annual School Supply Drive for the children of farm workers & migrants starts on Tuesday, July 14, and continues through Saturday, August 15. This year, we will be accepting monetary donations to buy the school supplies. We are also accepting donations of physical backpacks again this year.

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Apply for our 2026 Youth Scholarship Contest!

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”.

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Skinned for Fashion: Leather’s Impact on Animals, Humans, and the Environment

Leather—defined as any animal skin that is chemically treated to preserve it—is among the most ubiquitous of animal products. From shoes, jackets, dresses, and hats to belts, gloves, watchbands, and…

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Order our Eating Vegan in College guide today!

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!

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Order our Vegan Soul Food recipe guide now!

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.

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Shell Shock: The Cruelty Inside Exotic Eggs

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.)

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Check out our new page: Consider Insects & Worms

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.

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Food Empowerment’s Youth Zine is Here!

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.

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Help Us Print Eating Vegan In College

Will you help us get Eating Vegan in College published? It’s back-to-school season, which means college students are returning to campuses across the country. As a supporter of Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), you may have heard about the “Eating Vegan in College” page we created for our website, which helps college students learn how to eat their ethics. Now we are turning this informative online resource into a full-color, 20-page printed guide!

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School Supply Drive 2025 Follow-Up

F.E.P. has been organizing the School Supply Drive for 11 years, and this year proved to be one of the most challenging yet deeply meaningful. At a time when ICE continues to remove people from their communities and many farm workers live under constant fear, we especially had reservations partnered with excitement.

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