Shame on Safeway
Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.) has extensively studied access to healthy foods in Black and Brown communities and low-income communities in two areas: Santa Clara County, CA, and Vallejo, CA. F.E.P. focused…
Trying to help right an injustice (update on school supply drive 2016)
Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.) is an ethically-based vegan organization, and although we recognize the environmental and health benefits when eating vegan, we promote veganism because we do not want to…
Sounds before the slaughter
Every month, Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.) coordinates protests in front of a chicken slaughterhouse (Petaluma Poultry owned by Purdue – “Rocky the Free Range Chicken” and “Rosie the Original Organic…
“We get tired, too”
Recently, I attended a meeting with a local State Senator to encourage him to vote in favor of a bill to allow farm workers to be paid overtime, like most…
Why I Vote
Why I vote* would be easy enough to answer, as I could just be honest and say, “Because my mother told me I had to.” But as I have learned…
Touro University honors F.E.P. community organizer: Acceptance speech given by Maria Guevara
Acceptance speech of Maria Guevara, Food Empowerment Project's Vallejo Community organizer receiving a Hero AwardTOURO PUBLIC HEALTHCOMMUNITY HERO AWARD Thank you Touro University for choosing Vallejo to serve, to lead…
What exactly is “mainstream” about injustice?
Guest post by Anika Lehde, volunteer coordinator for the newly established Washington chapter of Food Empowerment Project. I’m thrilled to be working on the issues that Food Empowerment Project addresses…
What does sustainable mean?
Alive and well: the only truly natural state for chickens Sustainability means different things to different people and different organizations. For Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), the word is in the…
Why every vegan should support living wage efforts
Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.) is an organization based on ethics – we promote veganismbecause we do not want animals to have to suffer and/or die for human consumption, for entertainment,…
My Scariest Halloween: Racism at an animal rights protest
I have been attending (or organizing) animal rights protests since 1987, and I have cried at them due to the cruelty that is inflicted on animals – from the rattlesnake…
Bearing Witness
Last October I wrote a blog about why I started Sonoma County Chicken Save as part of our work at Food Empowerment Project.Since October we have been in front of…
Giving back just a little (Update on Food Empowerment Project School Supply Drive 2015)
3 girls from Marisol's photos As a vegan organization, Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.) encourages people who have access to healthy food to go vegan so as to not contribute to…