SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA (December 4, 2024) — Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice organization, is releasing a new online page filled with plant-based recipes offering veganized versions
New website from Food Empowerment Project celebrates the rich diversity of foods from African, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, and Cajun cuisine!
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Summary: Our new culinary website, VeganSoulFood.org, is featured in this North Carolina paper, along with a quote from jaz, F.E.P.’s vegan programs collective member.
Date: June 18, 2024 | Source: The Asheville Citizen Times | Category: Article
Summary: We got so much media coverage on the end of the boycott called on Amy’s Kitchen by their workers and supported by F.E.P. that we are listing some of the sources here rather than creating a separate entry for each.
Date: June 12–13, 2024 | Source: KQED, Northern California Public Media, Press Democrat, VegOut, Green Matters, Petaluma Argus-Courier | Category: Articles
Summary: This report on food insecurity mentions F.E.P. as an example of an organization working for solutions.
Date: June 10, 2024 | Source: The Seattle Times | Category: Article
Summary: Our youth advocacy coordinator, Kennedy Little, talks about how her compassion for animals led to her veganism and how it inspired her to launch F.E.P.’s Youth Scholarship
Contest.
Date: March 13, 2024 | Source: Fox 56 News | Category: Television spot
Summary: In this interview, F.E.P.’s founder and senior programs director, lauren Ornelas, discusses Food Empowerment Project’s unique approach to food justice, how she avoids burnout, and her advice to others who might want to follow a similar path.
Date: February 20, 2024 | Source: Bold Journey | Category: Article
Summary: This story on food insecurity quotes F.E.P.’s definition of a food desert.
Date: February 18, 2024 | Source: Chicago Tribune | Category: Article
Summary: KCBX Public Radio in San Luis Obispo, California, welcomed lauren Ornelas, F.E.P.’s founder and senior programs director; Lee Gitter, our admin and programs assistant; and Kennedy Little, our youth advocacy coordinator, to the Central Coast Voices show for an hour-long discussion about how our food choices can change the world.
Date: February 7, 2024 | Source: KCBX | Category: Radio interview
Summary: With January being a popular time to try veganism, this blog post covers some of the basics and highlights F.E.P.’s vegan pages and culinary websites under “Vegan recipe guides.”
Date: January 23, 2024 | Source: Animal Charity Evaluators | Category: Blog
Summary: This article about how young adults view colonization quotes from our anti-dairy booklet, One Glass at a Time, which points out that animal-based milk is a product of colonization.
Date: January 11, 2024 | Source: Deseret News | Category: Article
Summary: This piece examining why recommending the Mediterranean diet to all people not only ignores the foods and eating patterns of different traditions but can also work against people nutritionally includes a quote from F.E.P. founder lauren Ornelas regarding culturally relevant foods.
Date: January 3, 2024 | Source: Well+Good | Category: Article
Summary: In this interview, F.E.P. founder lauren Ornelas discusses how certain books and documentaries have influenced her work and how various social justice issues are connected.
Date: December 18, 2023 | Source: CanvasRebel | Category: Article
Summary: F.E.P. was instrumental in getting California’s 50-mile regulation—which hampers the education of farm worker children—temporarily suspended. This article about subsidized housing for farm workers quotes F.E.P. founder lauren Ornelas.
Date: December 13, 2023 | Source: The Sacramento Bee | Category: Article
Summary: VegOut magazine includes F.E.P. in its list of vegan groups to donate to on Giving Tuesday. The article features a beautiful photo of our vegan program coordinator jaz tabling at the recent Asheville VeganFest in North Carolina.
Date: November 28, 2023 | Source: VegOut Magazine| Category: Article
Summary: MSN picked up this interview with lauren Ornelas that ran on the digital media site Refinery29 on the same day.
Date: November 20, 2023 | Source: MSN | Category: Article
Summary: In this interview, F.E.P.’s founder lauren Ornelas talks about her start in the vegan movement, the events that led to the creation of Food Empowerment Project, and what it means to dismantle a cruel and racist food system.
Date: November 20, 2023 | Source: Refinery29 | Category: Article
Summary: In this story on food justice, F.E.P. is featured in the section devoted to the “Vegan Food Justice Movement.” In describing what we do, the article mentions that we “also remind vegan activists that just because their food is vegan, that doesn’t mean it’s automatically ethically produced.”
Date: November 16, 2023 | Source: Sentient Media | Category: Article
Summary: This story profiles a local chocolate business and mentions (and links to) F.E.P.
Date: November 15, 2023 | Source: The Provincetown Independent | Category: Article
Summary: F.E.P.’s founder, lauren Ornelas, was interviewed by this newspaper in San Luis Obispo, California, where F.E.P. relocated in March of 2023. She explains F.E.P.’s four core areas of work—veganism for the animals, access to healthy foods, farm worker rights, and transparency in the chocolate industry—and how locals can get involved.
Date: September 28, 2023 | Source: New Times | Category: Article
Summary: As this article correctly observes, “Vegan Chinese Food is more than just a collection of recipes. It’s a platform designed to emphasize the power of our food choices and educate visitors about the historical and cultural aspects of veganism within Chinese communities.”
Date: September 28, 2023 | Source: VegNews | Category: Article
Summary: In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, this interview with F.E.P.’s founder, lauren Ornelas, focuses on her journey to social justice activism and F.E.P.’s holistic approach to veganism.
Date: September 28, 2023 | Source: VegOut | Category: Article
Summary: The push for activists and the media to use the term “food apartheid” rather than “food desert” is covered here, and this article includes a quote from F.E.P.’s website regarding how animal farms disproportionately impact communities of color.
Date: August 29, 2023 | Source: VegNews | Category: Article
Summary: A lengthy story on food access the Silicon Valley features some good comments from F.E.P.’s founder, lauren Ornelas.
Date: August 25, 2023 | Source: Bay City News | Category: Article
Summary: To mark a year since more than 300 workers were laid off from Amy’s Kitchen, this story updates readers on the issue and links to F.E.P.’s video on the subject.
Date: August 15, 2023 | Source: Prism | Category: Article
Summary: F.E.P.’s Chocolate List is mentioned and linked to in this article about ethical chocolate, but note that we do not recommend all the brands touted in this story.
Date: July 28, 2023 | Source: Ethos | Category: Article
Summary: This story on access to healthy foods links to F.E.P.’s page on food deserts.
Date: May 12, 2023 | Source: Via Nola Vie | Category: Article
Summary: Much of this opinion piece about the ethical problems surrounding bananas is based on the work of F.E.P., which is credited.
Date: April 28, 2023 | Source: Chapelboro.com | Category: Op-Ed
Summary: Since chocolate is a popular gift on Mother’s Day, we were pleased to see The Kind Life link to F.E.P.’s list of recommended chocolates.
Date: April 26, 2023 | Source: The Kind Life | Category: Article
Summary: This story on food access in the City of Vallejo references—and links to—F.E.P.’s report demonstrating that higher-income parts of Vallejo had easier access to grocery stores than lower-income neighborhoods.
Date: April 21, 2023 | Source: Vallejo Times-Herald | Category: Article
Summary: No list of harmful products would be complete without chocolate. This article not only covers chocolate but recommends consumers use F.E.P.’s Chocolate List to find chocolate not sourced from the worst forms of child labor.
Date: April 20, 2023 | Source: Lady Freethinker | Category: Article
Summary: Drawing from a variety of sources, this compilation of international rice cake recipes features Puto Bumbong from F.E.P.’s site VeganFilipinoFood.com.
Date: April 18, 2023 | Source: One Green Planet | Category: Article
Summary: This profile of a new company that makes artisan chocolates sourced from Ghana references data from F.E.P.’s page on chocolate.
Date: March 20, 2023 | Source: Yahoo!| Category: Article
Summary: An overview of compassion fatigue that quotes a number of activists, including lauren Ornelas, who discusses the impact it can have—and how she fights it.
Date: March 15, 2023 | Source: Green Matters | Category: Article
Summary: An interview with lauren Ornelas in which she discusses what it means to fight a white supremacist food system; how we can make better food choices to help farm workers, the environment, and our health; and how we can demand safety measures to help protect farm workers and their families.
Date: March 15, 2023 | Source: LATV | Category: Article
Summary: The Dutch magazine Girugten references our work on food access in Black and Brown communities.
Date: February 23, 2023 | Source: Girugten | Category: Article
Summary: This review mentions that the brand Chuao is on F.E.P.’s list of recommended chocolates.
Date: February 19, 2023 | Source: Simply Healthy Vegan | Category: Article
Summary: An interview with lauren Ornelas about what inspired her to work on food justice issues.
Date: February 6, 2023 | Source: BadCredit.org | Category: Article
Summary: As a way to encourage readers to “practice eco-justice and climate action,” this article recommends consumers boycott food brands that use unethical practices and directs them to F.E.P.’s website for more information.
Date: January 16, 2023 | Source: Sustainable Baddie| Category: Article
Summary: This story on lack of access to healthy food quotes from F.E.P.’s report on Santa Clara County, California—Shining a Light on the Valley of Heart’s Delight—and links to our Food Deserts page.
Date: January 11, 2023 | Source: Better Manchester | Category: Article
Summary: A quick look at the honey issue that references F.E.P.’s page The Buzz About Honey.
Date: January 6, 2023 | Source: Daily Meal | Category: Article
Summary: As this article observes, “vegan chocolate isn’t necessarily ethical.” It references F.E.P.’s work on this issue.
Date: December 20, 2022 | Source: VegNews | Category: Article
Summary: This piece about avocados directs readers to F.E.P.’s avocado page referencing the green superfood’s environmental and human rights impact.
Date: December 15, 2022 | Source: The List | Category: Article
Summary: A brief overview of the chocolate issue that directs readers to F.E.P.’s page Child Labor and Slavery in the Chocolate Industry.
Date: December 15, 2022 | Source: WNWN Food Labs | Category: Article
Summary: A review of vegan chocolate that links to F.E.P.’s list of recommended chocolates. (Note: F.E.P. does not recommend all the brands listed in the article.)
Date: December 4, 2022 | Source: Ethos | Category: Article
Summary: More media coverage on our campaign against Amy’s Kitchen—this time it’s an in-depth interview F.E.P.’s Alejandra Tolley.
Date: December 2, 2022 | Source: Freezer Meal Frenzy | Category: Interview
Summary: This radio report was recorded live at F.E.P.’s press conference at Amy’s Kitchen headquarters in Petaluma, California.
Date: November 15, 2022 | Source: KCBS News Radio | Category: Radio report
Summary: F.E.P. is mentioned—and linked—in this article on eating well.
Date: October 21, 2022 | Source: Prevention | Category: Article
Summary: Workplace hazards at Amy’s Kitchen are the focus of this piece, which features comments from F.E.P.
Date: October 11, 2022 | Source: Sliced | Category: Article
Summary: A good overview of what happened to Amy’s Kitchen workers in San Jose when they tried to organize a union, including comments from F.E.P.
Date: August 24, 2022 | Source: Eater | Category: Article
Summary: A short but important profile on child labor in the chocolate industry that highlights F.E.P.
Date: August 19, 2022 | Source: Borgen Magazine | Category: Article
Summary: This story spotlights the launch of a vegan and gluten-free “mylk” chocolate wafer; importantly, it explains that the company that makes it is on F.E.P.’s list of recommended chocolates.
Date: August 15, 2022 | Source: Plant Based News | Category: Article
Summary: This in-depth exposé on Amy’s Kitchen and their workers touts F.E.P. as one of the few vegan organizations that is not afraid to confront corporations and stand up for marginalized workers. “For decades, most vegan activists have turned a blind eye to the hypocrisy that many food companies engage in,” it reads. “Food Empowerment Project has been a rare exception.”
Date: August 9, 2022 | Source: Forbes | Category: Article
Summary: A rally held to support Amy’s Kitchen workers, co-organized by Food Empowerment Project, gets local coverage.
Date: August 2, 2022 | Source: San Jose Spotlight | Category: Article
Summary: As the workers’ fight against Amy’s Kitchen continued throughout the year, the media continued with their coverage of the story, including this piece that quotes Food Empowerment Project Founder lauren Ornelas.
Date: July 28, 2022 | Source: Paste | Category: Article
Summary: In honor of World Chocolate Day, here’s a compilation of five vegan chocolate brands that make F.E.P.’s recommended list.
Date: July 7, 2022 | Source: Green Matters | Category: Article
Summary: Advocates are pushing Congress, as part of the next farm bill, to help low-income, underserved communities gain access to fresh and healthful food. This article quotes F.E.P. founder lauren Ornelas.
Date: June 3, 2022 | Source: Bloomberg Government Category: Article
Summary: Here’s a wonderful article exploring how F.E.P. is leading the food justice movement.
Date: May 10, 2022 | Source: Green Matters Category: Article
Summary: An in-depth interview with lauren Ornelas, founder of F.E.P.
Date: May 3, 2022 | Source: Vegan Hacktivists Category: Blog Post
Summary: This story on Amy’s Kitchen quotes F.E.P. founder lauren Ornelas.
Date: April 22, 2022 | Source: Capital & Main Category: Article
Summary: This story links to the April 7 Thrillist piece, which provides a link to F.E.P.’s letter to Amy’s Kitchen CEO Andy Berliner.
Date: April 20, 2022 | Source: Retail Wire Category: Article
Summary: lauren Ornelas, founder of F.E.P., was interviewed for this piece on Amy’s Kitchen.
Date: April 13, 2022 | Source: The Washington Post Category: Article
Summary: This investigative report provides a link to F.E.P.
Date: April 12, 2022 | Source: The San Francisco Chronicle Category: Article
Summary: A story republished from the April 1 issue of Prism.
Date: April 9, 2022 | Source: Daily Kos Category: Article
Summary: Another explanation of the Amy’s Kitchen boycott, this one with a link to F.E.P.’s letter to company CEO Andy Berliner.
Date: April 7, 2022 | Source: Thrillist Category: Article
Summary: An in-depth piece on worker injustice that mentions F.E.P.
Date: April 7, 2022 | Source: SF.Eater.com Category: Article
Summary: F.E.P. founder lauren Ornelas is quoted about the Amy’s Kitchen boycott.
Date: April 1, 2022 | Source: Prism Category: Article
Summary: The writer of this article on Amy’s Kitchen interviewed F.E.P.’s lauren Ornelas, and as a result it includes some excellent comments.
Date: March 30, 2022 | Source: Paste Category: Article
Summary: This publication, located near Amy’s Kitchen headquarters, provides a link to F.E.P.’s letter to Amy’s Kitchen CEO Andy Berliner.
Date: March 28, 2022 | Source: The Press Democrat Category: Article
Summary: The Amy’s Kitchen story gets picked up by another Bay Area news source and mentions F.E.P.
Date: March 23, 2022 | Source: SFGate Category: Article
Summary: F.E.P.’s Naty Elena briefly discusses the issue of lack of access to healthy food in Black and Brown communities.
Date: March 18, 2022 | Source: Telemundo Category: Television Program
Summary: This brief piece on the Amy’s Kitchen story mentions and links to F.E.P.
Date: March 4, 2022 | Source: SF.Eater.com Category: Article
Summary: Comments from F.E.P. founder lauren Ornelas highlight this piece on Amy’s Kitchen.
Date: March 4, 2022 | Source: Vegetarian Times Category: Article
Summary: Accessing to healthy food is becoming more difficult in Chicago, where markets continue to close. This article refers and links to F.E.P. work on food deserts.
Date: March 1, 2022 | Source: Chicago Sun-Times Category: Article
Summary: In addressing some of the problems with animal agriculture, this article links to F.E.P.’s page on Environmental Racism.
Date: February 3, 2022 | Source: Green Matters Category: Article
Summary: A Spanish-language article on the worst forms of child labor in the chocolate industry links to F.E.P.’s work.
Date: February 2, 2022 | Source: Expansión Category: Newsletter Article
Summary: This post on slavery in the chocolate industry references Food Empowerment Project’s work (though it promotes several chocolate brands not on F.E.P.’s recommended list).
Date: January 30, 2022 | Source: Back2Life Category: Blog Post
Summary: In addressing solutions to animal agriculture driving colonization and world hunger, this article includes a paragraph on F.E.P.
Date: January 23, 2022 | Source: New Politics Category: Article
Summary: A post about the challenges faced by slaughterhouse workers links to a report by F.E.P.
Date: January 17, 2022 | Source: OnLabor Category: Blog Post
Summary: This recipe mentions and links to F.E.P.’s Chocolate List.
Date: January 11, 2022 | Source: James Lane Category: Blog Post
Summary: Press release announcing the release of our anti-dairy booklet One Glass at a Time. The eight-page booklet examines not only how animals are harmed for milk production but how the dairy industry hurts the environment and workers, as well as its role in colonization and environmental racism.
Date: January 11, 2022 | Source: IndyBay Category: Press Release
Summary: One UK supermarket that stopped labeling its cow’s milk with sell-by dates is a springboard for this article to discuss the ways dairy production is bad for the environment and low-income communities. Includes a link to F.E.P.’s work.
Date: January 10, 2022 | Source: Green Matters| Category: Article
Summary: This article explores the human activities, including fishing and plastics pollution, that could lead to the extinction of fish species. In their section on solutions, the author quotes F.E.P.’s page on Commercial Fishing, which encourages people to stop consuming fishes.
Date: January 7, 2022 | Source: AnimalScene | Category: Article
Letter: Cow’s milk is not meant for human consumption
Summary: This letter to the editor regarding cow’s milk mentions F.E.P. and our term “lactose normal,” which refers to people—often Brown and Black people—whose bodies do not digest the milk of a non-human animal.
Date: November 25, 2021 | Source: Buffalo News | Category: Letter to the editor
Vegan Filipino food? It’s delicious!Summary: F.E.P.’s half-page, full-color ad (in English and Tagalog) for VeganFilipinoFood.com and our free Vegan Filipino Food recipe booklet appears on page A8 of this newspaper for Filipinos living in the U.S.
Date: November 25, 2021 | Source: FilAm Star | Category: Display ad
Thanksgiving: The Scary Truth Behind The Holiday That You Need To Know About
Summary: Forty-five million turkeys are raised and killed for food every year in the United States, and this article on Thanksgiving links to F.E.P.’s page on these remarkable animals and mentions that we brand the holiday “sadly ironic” for the extreme stress and pain enforced upon turkeys when for some people, Thanksgiving represents positivity and freedom.
Date: November 24, 2021 | Source: Plant Based News | Category: Article
7 recetas veganas para Navidad
Summary: A Spanish-language article profiling vegan recipes for Christmas that links to F.E.P.’s Vegan Mexican Food booklet (in Spanish).
Date: November 23, 2021 | Source: MSN.com | Category: Article
Ethical Holiday Gifts? There’s a List for That
Summary: This in-depth review of “slave-free chocolate” references F.E.P.’s assertion that certification does not guarantee that a product is free from child or forced labor.
Date: November 18, 2021 | Source: Fair World Project | Category: Blog
Aldi’s departure
Summary: In her response to the “Shame on Aldi” article from November 9, Amanda Farman, F.E.P.’s campaigns associate, says she hopes that the East Garfield Park Aldi has not left a restrictive covenant on the property, since that would harm the community even more.
Date: November 11, 2021 | Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Category: Letter to the editor
Parched for fresh cuisine: Life in food deserts
Summary: An article on food access in the San Francisco Bay Area that refers to F.E.P.’s study of Santa Clara County, in which we concluded that low-income communities were 14 times less likely to have access to even frozen food compared to higher income areas.
Date: November 10, 2021 | Source: Best of SNO | Category: Article
‘Shame on Aldi’: Store closure rekindles concerns over food deserts
Summary: This story on the closure of how the closure of a grocery store impacted the local community says F.E.P. estimates that more than 500,000 Chicagoans, a majority of them Black, live in food deserts and another 400,000 live in neighborhoods with plenty of fast-food restaurants, but no grocery stores nearby.
Date: November 9, 2021 | Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Category: Article
BYO, PYO, UPS, LEO
Summary: An article on autumn fruits that quotes F.E.P.’s page “Colonization, Food, and the Practice of Eating.”
Date: November 7, 2021 | Source: Compostable Matter | Category: Article
New council aims to address food security in Weber County, focusing on Ogden neighborhood
Summary: In defining “food deserts,” this story quotes Food Empowerment Project.
Date: November 5, 2021 | Source: Standard-Examiner | Category: Article
The Downside(s) with Your Favourite Indulgence
Summary: A reprint of the Well + Good piece on chocolate that quotes F.E.P. and links to our page “Child Labor and Slavery in the Chocolate Industry.”
Date: November 3, 2021 | Source: Haley Body | Category: Article
Chocolate Is One of the Most Damaging Foods to the Environment—Here’s Why
Summary: This article on how growing cocoa beans hurts the environment also spotlights the use of child labor. It quotes F.E.P. and links to our page “Child Labor and Slavery in the Chocolate Industry.”
Date: November 2, 2021 | Source: Well + Good | Category: Article
Are Non-Profit Chapters A Form Of Colonization?
Summary: lauren Ornelas was the first guest on The Bearded Vegans podcast back in 2015, and she became their final guest when they interviewed her for this episode, in which she explains why F.E.P. decided to disband our Washington chapter as well as prohibit the formation of any new chapters.
Date: October 27, 2021 | Source: The Bearded Vegans | Category: Podcast
Mobilizing Around Food Access
Summary: In defining “food deserts,” this food access story quotes Food Empowerment Project.
Date: October 22, 2021 | Source: Chronogram | Category: Article
Close Roadside Zoos, End Child Slavery, and Support Climate Policy: 10 Petitions to Sign this Week to Help People, Animals, and the Planet
Summary: This article features petitions for a wide range of topics—from roadside zoos to vaccine mandates. The description for the petition asking Hershey’s, Mars, and Nestlé to end their use of child slavery to produce their chocolate includes a link to F.E.P.’s chocolate list page.
Date: October 20, 2021 | Source: One Green Planet | Category: Article
National Chocolate Week 2021: The treats you need to celebrate, from vegan bars to hampers
Summary: Another exploration of the chocolate industry—this one marking National Chocolate Week—that links to F.E.P.’s chocolate list page.
Date: October 15, 2021 | Source: Yahoo! News | Category: Article
Vegan Chocolate Guide: Plant-Based Chocolate Brands & Recipes Galore
Summary: Here’s a lengthy piece about vegan chocolate that somewhat addresses the issue of child slavery and links to F.E.P.’s chocolate list page.
Date: October 14, 2021 | Source: World of Vegan | Category: Article
Should Vegans Be Concerned About The Mental Health Of Farmers?
Summary: The Bearded Vegans discuss farm workers and reference their earlier interview with lauren Ornelas.
Date: October 13, 2021 | Source: The Bearded Vegans | Category: Podcast
Our Voice, Our Food
Summary: This post on where food comes from links to F.E.P.’s page on Food Deserts.
Date: October 9, 2021 | Source: Quandary Salad | Category: Blog
Setting the Table, Not Running It: An Inclusive Approach to Access to Healthy Foods
Summary: Written by Karen Emmerman, a professor of philosophy at the University of Washington and a longtime F.E.P. supporter, in collaboration with F.E.P. founder lauren Ornelas, this commentary discusses F.E.P.’s people-centered approach, implemented to address issues of food access in California’s Vallejo community.
Date: September 16, 2021 | Source: Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development | Category: Commentary
Groups Urge Biden Administration to Plan for Extreme Heat in US Border Policies, Abandon Deterrence Model
Summary: Food Empowerment Project is a signatory in a letter urging President Biden and the US Department of Homeland Security to plan for extreme heat as a crucial element of the Biden administration’s approach to climate change and the border.
Date: September 15, 2021 | Source: Human Rights Watch | Category: Letter
Food Insecurity and Hunger: The Role of Occupational Therapy
Summary: This examination of food insecurity used F.E.P. as a reference
Date: September 8, 2021 | Source: Elite Learning | Category: Article
Banana biodiversity offers taste of hope
Summary: A reprint of The Washington Post’s article on bananas.
Date: August 30, 2021 | Source: Borneo Bulletin | Category: Article
Amid a global banana crisis, Puerto Rico’s abundant biodiversity offers a taste of hope
Summary: An exploration of the problematic history of bananas links to F.E.P.’s page on the fruit and includes our comment that “buying conventional bananas contributes to both environmental and human rights abuses.”
Date: August 20, 2021 | Source: The Washington Post | Category: Article
Veganism Isn’t Just About Saving Animals. It’s About Saving The World
Summary: This story on taking a holistic approach to veganism links to F.E.P.’s page on Environmental Racism.
Date: August 4, 2021 | Source: Yahoo! Life | Category: Article
Food Deserts: Victoria Valdez of Bifarm Tech On How They Are Helping To Address The Problem of People Having Limited Access to Healthy & Affordable Food Options
Summary: An interview with Victoria Valdez on food access in which she quotes F.E.P.’s definition of food deserts and discusses how we raise awareness about food issues.
Date: August 2, 2021 | Source: Authority Magazine | Category: Article
The history of meat consumption in America
Summary: This overview of eating meat in the United States—and its impact on animals and human health—offers a section on what readers can do to make a difference, including a mention of F.E.P.
Date: July 9, 2021 | Source: World Animals Voice | Category: Article
During My Gender Transition, I Also Transitioned To A Kinder Lifestyle
Summary: An activist compiling resources includes F.E.P.’s website.
Date: July 5, 2021 | Source: Blogarama | Category: Blog
What Is A Food Desert Quizlet Nutrition
Summary: An article on food access noting that F.E.P. does not use the term “food desert” because it doesn’t take into consideration such factors as racism, cost of living, people being time poor and cash poor, cultural appropriateness of available foods, and the ability of people to grow their owns foods.
Date: June 28, 2021 | Source: lissaloves.com | Category: Article
No Smile, No Tip
Summary: This promotion for an event regarding working conditions and wages for restaurant staff features a quote from F.E.P.
Date: June 25, 2021 | Source: Bangor Daily News | Category: Event
Opinion: Are you contributing to today’s slavery?
Summary: A letter to the editor regarding modern-day slavery that links to F.E.P.’s page “Child Labor and Slavery in the Chocolate Industry.”
Date: June 25, 2021 | Source: Gainesville Times | Category: Letter to the Editor
Radio Host Danny Parkins Raises $660k for Nonprofit Supermarket in 24-Hour Radiothon
Summary: In defining “food deserts,” this story quotes Food Empowerment Project.
Date: June 24, 2021 | Source: Newsweek | Category: Article
Child Slavery Case Against Nestlé Rejected
Summary: An article on child labor in the chocolate industry that mentions F.E.P.’s chocolate list.
Date: June 24, 2021 | Source: Organization for World Peace | Category: Article
Midweek Munchies
Summary: A blog post on chocolate that mentions F.E.P.’s chocolate list.
Date: June 2, 2021 | Source: Kittens Gone Lentil | Category: Blog
Food Inequality in the United States Is Deeply Intertwined With Race
Summary: This examination of access to healthy food quotes the work of F.E.P.
Date: June 2, 2021 | Source: Study Break | Category: Article
#WednesdayWisdom
Summary: Artist Sheila E. shared F.E.P.’s post spotlighting civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama on her Facebook page.
Date: May 26, 2021 | Source: Sheila E. | Category: Social Media Post
10 of Our Top Plant-Based Recipes Under Ten Ingredients From April 2021
Summary: Includes the recipe for Puto Bumbong Rice Cakes from F.E.P.’s site veganfilipinofood.com.
Date: May 26, 2021 | Source: One Green Planet | Category: Blog
Ne pensez plus à l’intérieur de la banane. Mangez la peau.Summary: A French translation of The New York Times article on bananas.
Date: May 17, 2021 | Source: OWDIN | Category: Blog
From Cassava Cake to Lemon Yogurt Poppy Seed Loaf: Our Top Eight Vegan Recipes of the Day!
Summary: Includes the recipe for Cassava Cake from F.E.P.’s site veganfilipinofood.com.
Date: May 13, 2021 | Source: One Green Planet | Category: Article
From Siopao to Tofu Satay Skewers: Our Top Eight Vegan Recipes of the Day!
Summary: Includes the recipe for Siopao from F.E.P.’s site veganfilipinofood.com.
Date: May 12, 2021 | Source: One Green Planet | Category: Article
From Agave Margarita to Brookies: Our Top Eight Vegan Recipes of the Day!
Summary: Includes the recipe for Puto Bumbong Rice Cakes from F.E.P.’s site veganfilipinofood.com.
Date: May 11, 2021 | Source: One Green Planet | Category: Article
Think outside the banana: Save those skins for two delicious, and unconventional, recipes
Summary: A reprint of The New York Times’ article on bananas.
Date: May 11, 2021 | Source: Independent Eagle | Category: Article
Think Outside the Banana. Eat the Peel.
Summary: A culinary articles that quotes lauren Ornelas, who explains that bananas are linked to colonization, sexism, and racism.
Date: May 10, 2021 | Source: New York Times | Category: Article
Community-Powered Vegan Fridge Startup Plantega To Expand Across 20 New York City Bodegas
Summary: Mentions F.E.P.’s work in food access.
Date: May 5, 2021 | Source: Green Queen | Category: Article
6 tips for adopting the vegan diet\
Summary: Mentions the work of F.E.P.
Date: April 25, 2021 | Source: Salon | Category: Social Media Post
New Vegan Website Features Lao Food
Summary: Newly launched VeganLaoFood.com highlights delicious plant-based recipes for the Lao community, vegans and the vegan-curious!
Date: April 2021 | Source: Food Empowerment Project | Category: Press Release
Larb lettuce wraps
Summary: A tasty recipe from F.E.P.’s veganlaofood.com site.
Date: March 29, 2021 | Source: Nourish | Category: Article
How to Have a Kind Easter Celebration
Summary: Written by actor and vegan activist Alicia Silverstone, this article spotlights F.E.P.’s chocolate list and the work we are doing to end child labor in the chocolate industry.
Date: March 27, 2021 | Source: The Kind Life | Category: Article
Is your Easter chocolate funding slavery? Investigating the dark side of your favourite treat
Summary: References F.E.P.’s work on the chocolate issue.
Date: March 26, 2021 | Source: Green Is the New Black | Category: Article
What Is Sustainable Food?
Summary: Links to F.E.P. page on farmers’ markets.
Date: March 18, 2021 | Source: Good Housekeeping| Category: Article
Plantega Vegan Fridges: Meet The Food Blogger Making Plant-Based Eating Accessible In Brooklyn
Summary: Mentions F.E.P.’s work in food access.
Date: March 10, 2021 | Source: Green Queen | Category: Article
More Than 100 Organizations Call for Expeditious Action to Ban Chlorpyrifos
Summary: Food Empowerment Project is a signatory in a letter urging the EPA to immediately revoke all food tolerances for chlorpyrifos and initiate the cancellation process to end all uses of this neurotoxic pesticide.
Date: March 8, 2021 | Source: Human Rights Watch | Category: Press Release
5 Shocking Ways Child Labor Is Still Used in Food Production
Summary: F.E.P. is listed as a resource under “Ways You Can Help” in this story about child labor around the world.
Date: March 2, 2021 | Source: One Green Planet | Category: Article
10 Great Mexican Vegan Dishes in Metro Phoenix
Summary: Mentions F.E.P.’s site veganmexicanfood.com.
Date: February 23, 2021 | Source: Phoenix New Times | Category: Press Release
Vegan qassata recipe featured in international cookbook
Summary: Mentions that all proceeds from sales of this vegan cookbook go to Food Empowerment Project.
Date: February 22, 2021 | Source: Times of Malta | Category: Article
How to Make Your Valentine’s Day More Sustainable
Summary: An exploration of the chocolate issue that mentions F.E.P.’s with corporations to promote transparency in the industry and our list of chocolates that we do and do not recommend.
Date: February 11, 2021 | Source: Worth | Category: Article
Support These Intersectional Environmental Organizations for Black History Month
Summary: References F.E.P.’s use of the terms “food apartheid” and “food oppression.”
Date: February 1, 2021 | Source: Green Matters | Category: Article
2021 Animal Law Review Symposium: Food Justice – Breaking Interconnected Systems of Oppression
Summary: In this presentation, lauren Ornelas of the Food Empowerment Project examines various interconnected abuses in our food system, including non-human animal exploitation, farm worker injustices, slavery, environmental racism, and lack of access to healthy foods in Black and Brown communities and low-income areas.
Date: February 2021 | Source: Animal Law Review Symposium | Category: Presentation
Food Empowerment Project Employs Education to Help Consumers Make Ethical Food Choices
Summary: A profile of F.E.P., with an emphasis on our core programs.
Date: January 16, 2021 | Source: Food Tank | Category: Article
These 4 Vegans Activists I Met in My Twenties Inform Who I Am Becoming
Summary: An animal advocate recounts how four activists, including Food Empowerment Project founder lauren Ornelas, helped shape her own activism.
Date: January 10, 2021 | Source: Medium | Category: Article
Chocolate Candy: Our Endorsement of Child Slavery and Labor
Summary: An exploration of child labor in the chocolate industry.
Date: January 8, 2021 | Source: Focus for Health | Category: Article
Food Empowerment Project Employs Education to Help Consumers Make Ethical Food Choices
Summary: Food Empowerment Project is working to address issues within the food system that include food access, climate change, and farm worker justice.
Date: January 2021 | Source: Food Tank | Category: Article
Date: December 2020 | Source: Food Tank | Category: Article
Date: November 2020 | Source: Mel Magazine | Category: Article
Date: November 2020 | Source: Phans for Racial Equity Youtube | Category: Video
Date: November 2020 | Source: WELL + GOOD | Category: Article
Date: November 2020 | Source: bon appétit | Category: Article
Date: November 2020 | Source: Hiplatina | Category: Article
Date: November 2020 | Source: Youtube | Category: Video
Date: November 2020 | Source: Sentient Media | Category: Article
Date: October 2020 | Source: Animal People Forum | Category: Interview/Article
Date: October 2020 | Source: Amplify | Category: Podcast
Date: October 2020 | Source: msn – money | Category: Article
Date: October 2020 | Source: WELL + GOOD | Category: Article
Date: September 2020 | Source: Hope for the Animals | Category: Podcast
Date: September 2020 | Source: San Jose Spotlight | Category: Article
Date: September 2020 | Source: Times Harald Online | Category: Article
Date: September 2020 | Source: The Vape Report | Category: Article
Date: September 2020 | Source: Daily Republic | Category: Article
Date: August 2020 | Source: YouTube | Category: Video
Date: August 2020 | Source: EcoCiv | Category: Podcast
Date: August 2020 | Source: Abuelas en Accion: A Podcast for Our Common Good | Category: Podcast
Date: July 2020 | Source: Planet Friendly News | Category: Article
Date: July 2020 | Source: Jewish Veg | Category: Podcast
Date: July 2020 | Source: Squeamish | Category: Podcast
Date: June 2020 | Source: WFPL | Category: Article
Date: June 2020 | Source: CNN | Category: Article
Date: June 2020 | Source: Sentient Media | Category: Interview
Date: May 2020 | Source: Mama Bear Dares | Category: Podcast
Date: May 2020 | Source: The Vegan Rainbow Project | Category: Interview
Date: February 2020 | Source: moms | Category: Article
Date: January 2020 | Source: VGN | Category: Article
Date: January 2020 | Source: Oroville Mecury-Register | Category: Article