Food Empowerment Project’s various initiatives have been included in conferences, podcasts, interviews and other news sources, throughout the last decade. Below are details and links for these news sources; feel free to share!
- 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
- 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: 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
- 121 Food Organizations to Watch in 2021
Summary: Food Tank is highlighting 121 organizations rebuilding a more sustainable, equitable, and accessible food system ahead of 2021.Date: December 2020 | Source: Food Tank | Category: Article
- Vegans Roast the Thanksgiving Turkey Time-Travel Flick “Free Birds”
Summary: A lighthearted Q&A with F.E.P. founder, lauren Ornelas about the 2013 animated film Free Birds, in which the birds time travel to the first Thanksgiving to change the tradition.Date: November 2020 | Source: Mel Magazine | Category: Article
- A Discussion on Food Insecurity with The Food Empowerment Project
Summary: Virtual Roundtable Phans for Racial Equity: Focusing on the Phish music scene and the need for diversity and understanding greater issues at large. Generating action within the Phish action to benefit the Food Empowerment Project.Date: November 2020 | Source: Phans for Racial Equity Youtube | Category: Video
- The Meditteranean Diet Is A Healthy Eating Plan—But It’s Far From Universal
Summary: The Mediterranean diet, which focuses on lean proteins, seafood, and plenty of vegetables, is often promoted as one of the healthiest nutrition plans available to people. However, because it was created by westerners and for westerners, it’s not necessarily the best fit for all demographics, not taking into consideration cultural food traditions or the health of BIPOC communities.Date: November 2020 | Source: WELL + GOOD | Category: Article
- How to Practically and Specifically Help Restaurants This Election Year
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has left millions of restaurant workers out of jobs, making mobilizing for restaurants this election season all the more important. Restaurant owners, other members of the community, and out-of-work restaurant workers themselves share ways to advocate for the industry. One way to help is locating food deserts and supporting charities like Food Empowerment Project that increase access to healthy, affordable food in low-income areas.Date: November 2020 | Source: bon appétit | Category: Article
- 13 Latinx Movers and Shakers to Follow On Instagram
Summary: Highlighting some prominent Instagram voices from the Latinx community who are creating and inspiring change in their fields, including F.E.P. founder, lauren Ornelas.Date: November 2020 | Source: Hiplatina | Category: Article
- Farm Workers and the COVID-19 Crisis: A Conversation with lauren Ornelas
Summary: Jose Mandez interviews lauren Ornelas where they talk about her background with food justice and farmer workers handling COVID-19 and why Food Empowerment Project is so necessary.Date: November 2020 | Source: Youtube | Category: Video
- The Need for Ethical Consistency in Animal Advocacy
Summary: Liberation cannot happen unless it happens for everyone. Championing one group or interest over another is hypocritical. The author is heartened to see more inclusiveness and diversity in vegan advocacy groups such as Food Empowerment Project.Date: November 2020 | Source: Sentient Media | Category: Article
- Vegan Doesn’t Always Mean Cruelty-Free: An Interview With lauren Ornelas of Food Empowerment Project
Summary: Food Empowerment Project’s founder, lauren Ornelas, explains the interconnection between veganism and social justice. Food Empowerment Project works to create change and empower people with their food choices while addressing the need for systemic changes to end oppression of human and non-human animals alike.Date: October 2020 | Source: Animal People Forum | Category: Interview/Article
- Eat Your Ethics: Rallying For Food Justice in Supply Chains
Summary: Sanchi Singh talks with Food Empowerment Project founder, lauren Ornelas about food justice, particularly with regard to labor practices impacting communities of color.Date: October 2020 | Source: Amplify | Category: Podcast
- The Redskins and 18 More Offensive Logos That Came Under Fire
Summary: Many brands are currently changing logos that perpetuate racial bias, and others have historically done so. Pressure from activists, consumers, and sponsors has proved successful in forcing companies to acknowledge racist origins, and make appropriate changes Food Empowerment Project is critical of the Chiquita Banana logo that presents a carefree life in contrast to the realities of banana production, which are anything but.Date: October 2020 | Source: msn – money | Category: Article
- Dollar Stores Aren’t the Answer To Alleviating Food Insecurity, So What Is?
Summary: Dollar stores located in low-income areas that often lack a grocery store are the primary food supplier for many people in the U.S.. However, they don’t often stock produce and most of the options are nutrient-poor foods. Lauren Ornelas, founder of Food Empowerment Project, points out that they don’t typically stock organic options either and grocery stores are not necessarily a good option either due to deed restrictive practices. People want healthier options, and policymakers, grocery-store operators, and community planners have a role to play in enacting changes to increase low-income populations’ access to healthier foods.Date: October 2020 | Source: WELL + GOOD | Category: Article
- More Glimmers of Hope and FEP’s lauren Orneales
Summary: Food Empowerment Project founder, lauren Ornelas talks about her three decades of dedicated activism for animals. Hope and lauren also discuss vegan food accessibility, child slave labor in the chocolate industry, and much more.Date: September 2020 | Source: Hope for the Animals | Category: Podcast
- Farmworker Bill Aim to Protect Against COVID-19 But May Not Go Far Enough
Summary: A suite of Assembly bills likely to pass later this month could expand essential services to hundreds of thousands of farmworkers across California, but fails to address the issue of low wages, substandard living conditions, and high case rates of coronavirus infection among farmworker families.Date: September 2020 | Source: San Jose Spotlight | Category: Article
- Food Fest Goes Virtual Over Three Weekends
Summary: The fifth annual Vallejo Food Festival adapts to COVID-19 by transitioning from a six-hour, in-person festival to a free, three-part live stream series, taking place three Saturdays in a row. The festival highlights demonstrations from vegan chefs, a Q&A surrounding use of food as medicine, and offers a free vegan cookbook and recipe package to the first 16 to register each Saturday.Date: September 2020 | Source: Times Harald Online | Category: Article
- Striving For Access to Nutritious, Locally Grown Food For All
Summary: Black activists note that racial inequality can also be found where food and land are concerned, and food deserts are a prime example, especially since they are typically found in Black and Brown communities. Food Empowerment Project adds that structural racism, lack of culturally appropriate foods, and lack of land to grow food are often details overlooked in areas where food deserts are found.Date: September 2020 | Source: The Vape Report | Category: Article
- Food Empowerment Fest Going Virtual in 2020
Summary: The fifth annual Food Empowerment Project Vallejo Healthy Food Fest offers an online event which presents vegan cooking demonstrations and presentations as well as offering a free vegan starter guide to every participant.Date: September 2020 | Source: Daily Republic | Category: Article
- Feeding Freedom 1
Summary: Even though 72 billion pounds of food are lost through the supply chain each year, many people still struggle to obtain healthy, affordable food. African American and Latino families are at least 2 to 2.5 times more likely to struggle with food insecurity due to food deserts and food swamps. Food Empowerment Project founder lauren Ornelas highlights the importance of policy changes and the power of “solidarity and unity” in combating food injustice.Date: August 2020 | Source: YouTube | Category: Video
- Ecociv Podcast Episode #34 – lauren Ornelas: Food Empowerment Project
Summary: In this podcast, Ebony Bailey speaks with Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.) founder lauren Ornelas about why she says that “food is power,” whether vegan products are really “cruelty free,” how exploitative food practices disproportionately impact communities of color, F.E.P’s work with farm worker rights, and about their efforts to promote healthy food access to low-income communities.Date: August 2020 | Source: EcoCiv | Category: Podcast
- Abuelas en Acción: Season 1, Episode 24 / Interview with lauren Ornelas, Founder of Food Empowerment Project
Summary: Topics discussed include COVID-19, veganism, healthy food access, farm workers, and environmental racism. Action items: if you can – go vegan, support farm workers, use recommended chocolate list, support Black and Brown farmers at Farmers Markets, etc.Date: August 2020 | Source: Abuelas en Accion: A Podcast for Our Common Good | Category: Podcast
- The Inherent Racism of Our Food System
Summary: Food production and availability is at the core of improving human health, fighting racism, and tackling climate change. Food Empowerment Project is mentioned, addressing food as a principal tool of colonization, leading to the environmental racism seen today. Plant-based eating can be a return to cultural heritage, with Black people making up the fastest growing group of plant-based eaters.Date: July 2020 | Source: Planet Friendly News | Category: Article
- Struggles Bound Together: Making Animal Rights Activism Intersectional
Summary: In this panel discussion, Food Empowerment Project founder lauren Ornelas joins members of the Jewish Vegetarian Society to discuss the importance of anti-racism and intersectionality in the animal rights movement, as well as how veganism can help us reclaim our cultural traditions. In the concluding Q&A session, panelists offer advice on how to be an anti-racist animal rights advocate and how to cope when the world’s injustices seem overwhelming.Date: July 2020 | Source: Jewish Veg | Category: Podcast
- The Inequality of Food Access
Summary: Podcast by Squeamish focusing on the inequality of Food Access in America. Guest speaker is founder/president of the Food Empowerment Project, lauren T. Ornelas.Date: July 2020 | Source: Squeamish | Category: Podcast
- After Save A Lot’s Closing, Potential For Food Desert Grows In New Albany
Summary: With the closure of Save A Lot, four more tracts that meet the poverty thresholds could also qualify. Up to 13,500 residents of New Albany may now be living in food deserts.Date: June 2020 | Source: WFPL | Category: Article
- Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben are going away. Are these mascots next?
Summary: Miss Chiquita has been criticized for perpetuating stereotypes of Latin Americans as primitive and Latina women as hypersexual.Date: June 2020 | Source: CNN | Category: Article
- Advocating for Food Justice During a Pandemic
Summary: Interview with lauren Ornelas about her thoughts on how this current pandemic is connected to both veganism and food justice for humans — and what we can practically do about it, especially when it comes to our personal shopping habitsDate: June 2020 | Source: Sentient Media | Category: Interview
- Mama Bear Dares: Episode 267: Food Is Power with lauren Ornelas
Summary: Topics discussed include lauren Ornelas’ personal journey, farm worker rights, veganism, chocolate slavery, lack of access to healthy foods, and how we can make more informed choices to prevent injustice.Date: May 2020 | Source: Mama Bear Dares | Category: Podcast
- Veganism, Farm Worker Rights and Food Justice.
Summary: Interview with lauren Ornelas about her activism journey and how it led her to start the Food Empowerment Project, as well as farm worker justice issues, the importance of access to healthy foods, and why it is imperative for a holistic veganism to support these struggles for justice.Date: May 2020 | Source: The Vegan Rainbow Project | Category: Interview
- Why More Moms Are Choosing Ethically-Sourced Food For Their Families
Summary: The Food Empowerment Project describes just how unjust the food industry can be, for breaching the human rights of those producing it.Date: February 2020 | Source: moms | Category: Article
- “Big changes” coming at Food Empowerment Project
Summary: The founder of non-profit Food Empowerment Project has announced a raft of changes for the group.Date: January 2020 | Source: VGN | Category: Article
- Despite wage disparities, local grocers can improve rural food access
Summary: As a highly agricultural area with rural food deserts (defined by the United States Department of Agriculture as areas with few access points to food), Butte County continues to struggle to address access to affordable food for all communities.Date: January 2020 | Source: Oroville Mecury-Register | Category: Article
- As plant-based eating continues to take off, Mexican cuisine returns to its vegan roots
Summary: As we know it in the U.S., Mexican food typically involves lots of meat and cheese—enchiladas stuffed with beef, chicken tinga tacos, nachos topped with sour cream and cheese. Delicious? Absolutely. But not necessarily the first type of cuisine many would think of when considering a plant-based diet. But according to vegan food activist and Food Empowerment Project founder Lauren Ornelas, Mexican food was traditionally entirely plant-based.Date: November 2019 | Source: Well and Good | Category: Article
- Summary: For the first time in nine years, Syracuse Vegfest celebrated all things vegan with fresh produce, cooking demonstrations and activism. Featured speakers and food demos were held throughout the day near farm stands that offered fresh produce. One of those speakers was lauren Ornelas, the founder and executive director for Food Empowerment Project. Ornelas discussed food justice and the power of food choices. She highlighted the food justice work that her organization does and talked about how the issues are relevant to the Syracuse community.
Date: October 2019 | Source: The Daily Orange | Category: Article
- Summary: Going vegan doesn’t mean ditching your favorite comfort foods – and that goes for the Filipinx community, as well. Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.) launched veganfilipinofood.com with more than a dozen recipes that celebrate the traditional food of the Southeast Asian islands now known as “The Philippines.” The site brings a rich cultural tradition to vegans, the vegan-curious, and Filipinx who don’t want to let go of their heritage while adopting an animal-free diet. The recipe collection was inspired by two Pinay members of F.E.P. in an effort to share the familiar flavors of their homeland while expanding our circle of compassion.
Date: October 2019 | Source: Vegan Magazine | Category: Article
- Summary: Beyond the sweet hit of gratification our bodies get when we consume chocolate, there are consequences to the world’s unrelenting obsession. In Ghana and the Ivory Coast, where 70 per cent of the world’s cocoa is produced, child labour, human trafficking and slavery are reported on farms that have become increasingly secretive about their manufacturing processes.
Date: July 2019 | Source: The National | Category: Article
- Food Empowerment Project 2019 School Supply Drive for Children of Farm Workers
Summary: Food Empowerment Project is pleased to announce its 2019 School Supply Drive, benefiting the children of farm workers and assisting families trying to meet their basic needs. The drive runs from now until July 10. F.E.P. will distribute school supplies this summer to children of farm workers in the Watsonville/Salinas, Sonoma County, and the Central Valley.
Date: June 2019 | Source: Sonoma County Gazette | Category: Article - The Fight Against Climate Change Needs to Address Environmental Racism
Summary: MTV article on why we need to consider environmental racism while we fight against climate change.
Date: April 2019 | Source: MTV | Category: Article
- Should Vegans Support Corporate Campaigns? Live from Atlantic City with lauren Ornelas.
Summary: The Bearded Vegans are so excited to bring you their latest live episode, recorded by A Shared Universe at the Atlantic City Vegan Food Festival. They are joined by the one and only lauren Ornelas, founder of Food Empowerment Project, who uses her many years of expertise in winning corporate campaigns to expand on previous conversations regarding the efficacy of targeting specific restaurants and businesses.
Date: August 2018 | Source: The Bearded Vegans | Category: Podcast - Food Empowerment Project Founder lauren Ornelas Becomes First Woman of Color in Animal Rights Hall of Fame
Summary: Animal rights activist lauren Ornelas, founder and executive director of Food Empowerment Project, is the first woman of color inducted to the Animal Rights Hall of Fame.
Date: July 2018 | Source: Live Kindly | Category: Article - ‘50-mile rule’: Migrant farmworker housing policy changed to allow children to stay in school year-round
Summary: The legislation was sponsored by the Food Empowerment Project as well as the nonprofit Center for Farmworker Families, based in Watsonville.
Date: July 2018 | Source: The Mercury News | Category: Article - Vegan Food Festival Comes to Atlantic City
Summary: In addition to live music and vegan retail, there will be speakers throughout the day, including RZA but also Lauren Ornelas of the Food Empowerment Project and Erika J. Boyd of Detroit Vegan Soul.
Date: July 2018 | Source: NJ Monthly | Category: Article - Report categorizes areas in Bay County as “food deserts”
Summary: News segment noting our important work dealing with food deserts.
Date: June 2018 | Source: WJHG | Category: Article and News Segment - Self Care Sundays Ep. 207: lauren Ornelas of the Food Empowerment Project
Summary: Can veganism be a form of self care? Is a cruelty-free lifestyle a right or a privilege? On this episode, we’ll unpack these issues with lauren Ornelas, Founder and Executive Director of “Food Empowerment Project,” an organization on a mission to make vegan food more accessible in low-income areas and communities of color.
Date: June 2018 | Source: Self Care Sundays | Category: Podcast - Oakland VegFest 2018 – lauren Ornelas
Summary: lauren Ornelas talks about how food as been used as a tool for social change and how we have to use food wisely.
Date: May 2018 | Source: Oakland VegFest YouTube | Category: Video - The lineup of speakers at this year’s Maine Veg Fest are voting for compassion – for both people (‘human animals’) and ‘nonhuman animals’
Summary: lauren Ornelas is on the front lines of food justice work. But unlike many food justice advocates, she also champions vegan eating. Ornelas will be speaking at this year’s Maine Animal Coalition Veg Fest, taking place in early June in Portland.
Date: May 2018 | Source: Portland Press Herald | Category: Article - How Leaving Stores Closed for Years Helps Grocery Chains and Hurts Communities
Summary: Some supermarkets are using an arcane legal clause to prevent new stores from opening, creating a long-term lack of food access.
Date: January 2018 | Source: Civil Eats | Category: Article - How to Combat ‘Food Deserts’ and ‘Food Swamps’
Summary: lauren Ornelas is interviewed in the Healthline article on how to combat “food deserts.”
Date: January 2018 | Source: Healthline | Category: Article - The Unexpected Challenges of Living in a Food Desert
Summary: NPR’s Marketplace interviews lauren Ornelas on F.E.P.’s work in Santa Clara County and some of the challenges of living in areas of “food deserts.”
Date: January 2018 | Source: Marketplace | Category: Article - Meet The Vegan Willy Wonka Who’s Raising The Bar On Ethical Business
Summary: Food Empowerment Project’s Chocolate List is mentioned in this Forbes article on ethical chocolate.
Date: January 2018 | Source: Forbes | Category: Article
- How Closing Grocery Stores Perpetuate Food Deserts Long After They’re Gone
Summary: An obscure clause in the deeds of departing grocery stores sometimes prevents new grocery stores from opening in their place, leaving neighborhoods without fresh produce for years to come. “So what people were forced to do is go to the liquor stores and go to the convenience stores. Those don’t normally offer a lot of fresh produce. They can get the sodas and the chips, sugary foods, but they aren’t necessarily getting fresh produce, which they desperately want,” says lauren Ornelas, executive director of Food Empowerment Project.
Date: November 2017 | Source: Fast Company | Category: Article - Deed restriction tactic used by Safeway, others, picketed in Vallejo
Summary: “We’re here because we want Safeway to change its policy,” Ornelas said. “We’re letting people know that Safeway does this, and asking them to sign our petition and contact Safeway and tell them they should change this policy. We’re out here because it’s hard for people to believe this is happening, but it is happening and we have to change it.”
Date: October 2017 | Source: Times Herald | Category: Article - Migrant Children Thwarted by the 50-Mile Rule
Summary: Since the 1970s, a state rule has required farmworkers to move at least 50 miles away from a migrant camp at the end of the season in order to continue to qualify for the housing. Now, advocates, including Food Empowerment Project, are trying to get California officials to change the 50-mile rule, which jeopardizes the educations of farmworker children, among other problems.
Date: October 2017 | Source: California Health Report | Category: Article - Celebrate Mexican Independence Day with Vegan Mexican Recipes Courtesy of Food Empowerment Project!
Summary: Just in time for Mexican Independence Day, Food Empowerment Project relaunches VeganMexicanFood.com, to showcase Mexican dishes without animal ingredients – proving it’s possible to eat vegan and still enjoy the tastes of Mexican cuisine.
Date: September 2017 | Source: La-Story | Category: Article - Santa Cruz County Advocates Decry Farm Worker Housing Rule Over Effects on Children
Summary: With more than 90 percent of the children of migrant farm workers dropping out of high school, advocates, including Food Empowerment Project, are working to overturn the “50- mile rule” that disadvantages the children of farm workers.
Date: August 2017 | Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel | Category: Article - Advocacy Groups Challenging this California State Housing Rule Say it Uproots Farmworkers’ Children from Schools
Summary: This LA Times piece highlights Food Empowerment Project’s leading role in the fight to change or eliminate the “50-mile rule” that uproots the children of migrant farmworkers from their schools twice a year, causing them to fall behind and often drop out.
Date: August 2017 | Source: LA Times | Category: Article - Active Morals: Carrying out the American Spirit of Free Speech
Summary: This article mentions lauren Ornelas’ key role in helping John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Mackey, go vegan in 2006.
Date: July 2017 | Source: Huffington Post | Category: Article - Healthy Food Fest Returns to Vallejo Today
Summary: Announcement of the Vallejo Healthy Food Fest 2017 in the Benicia Herald.
Date: July 2017 | Source: Benicia Herald | Category: Article - Second Annual Vallejo Healthy Food Fest Planned for Sunday
Summary: Announcement of the Vallejo Healthy Food Fest 2017 in the Vallejo Times-Herald.“It’s all about continuing to bring together and celebrate the Vallejo community with a focus on access to healthy foods.”
Date: July 2017 | Source: Vallejo Times-Herald | Category: Article - Animal Charity Evaluators Interviews lauren Ornelas
Summary: Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) interviews lauren Ornelas. This article talks about lauren Ornelas’s work at Food Empowerment Project, touches on the interconnectedness of other social justice movements, and includes a rousing conversation on utilitarianism in the animal rights movement.
Date: July 2017 | Source: Animal Charity Evaluators | Category: Interview - Brazilian Animal Rights Group, Agencia de Noticias de Direilos Animais (ANDA), Interviews lauren Ornelas
Summary: When People Use their Voices to Change Policy or Corporations, that’s Power. lauren Ornelas is interviewed by Brazilian Animal Rights News Agency, Agencia de Noticias de Direilos Animais (ANDA). This interview is in English and Portuguese.
Date: June 2017 | Source: Agencia de Noticias de Direilos Animais (ANDA) | Category: Interview - Episode 386: Interview with lauren Ornelas and Mark Hawthorne
Summary: In the 386th episode of Our Hen House podcast, Jasmine Singer, interviews lauren Ornelas and Mark Hawthorne after the 10-year anniversary benefit for Food Empowerment Project.
Date: June 2017 | Source: Our Hen House | Category: Podcast - Vallejo Times-Herald: Vallejo liquor store to change merchandise, name
Summary: Article from the Vallejo Times-Herald updating the transformation of a local liquor store into a healthier food purveyor through the Healthy Stores for a Healthy Community initiative and Food Empowerment Project.
Date: May 2017 | Source: Vallejo Times-Herald | Category: Article - Vallejo Times-Herald: Two more Vallejo liquor stores to convert to healthier markets
Summary: Article from the Vallejo Times-Herald regarding the Healthy Stores for a Healthy Community initiative in Solano County which has teamed up with Food Empowerment Project to convert convenience and liquor stores in Vallejo, CA low-income neighborhoods to provide healthier food options like fresh fruits and vegetables. Stores were chosen through F.E.P.’s findings in Vallejo: City of Opportunity Lacks Access to Healthy Food.
Date: May 2017 | Source: Vallejo Times-Herald | Category: Article - VegNews: 7 Instagram Accounts by Vegan POC You Should Be Following
Summary: VegNews mentions Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P), @foodempowermentproject, in their list of seven instagram accounts by Vegan POC that should be followed. F.E.P., the only non-profit that is mentioned in this list, is recognized as a “great educational tool” that “unites the vegan community in its awareness of intersectionality to continue making veganism more inclusive.”
Date: April 2017 | Source: VegNews | Category: Article - Good news: You don’t have to eat chocolate produced by exploited labor
Summary: A letter to the editor published in the Los Angeles Times in response to their story on supporting chocolate producers – a story that neglected to mention child labor and slavery on many cacao farms in West Africa.
Date: April 2017 | Source: LA Times | Category: Article - Mystery Ingredient’s Episode 5: Food Empowerment
Summary: Our fifth episode of “Mystery Ingredient” dives right in for a no-holds-barred interview with lauren Ornelas, founder of Food Empowerment Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2006, now celebrating 10 years of work, Learn about food justice, getting to know everything and everyone involved in food production, the connections to modern day veganism, and how we can ALL get involved.
Date: April 2017 | Source: Vegan Iron Chef | Category: Podcast - What is Sustainable?
Summary: Founder and Executive Director of Food Empowerment Project, lauren Ornelas speaking at CowCon 2016 in Berkeley, CA.
Date: March 2017 | Source: COWSPIRACY YouTube Channel | Category: Video - St. Edward’s University Magazine Spring/Summer 2017
Summary: In St. Edwards’ Spring 2017 alumni magazine, they feature an interview with lauren (it’s on page 24) about her activist work and why she founded F.E.P.
Date: March 2017 | Source: St. Edwards University | Category: Interview
- 20 Organizations Fighting For Food Justice
Summary: F.E.P. is listed as one of twenty organizations around the world expanding the vision of food justice and pursuing palpable changes in the structure of our food system.
Date: November 2016 | Source: Food Tank| Category: Article
- Charity of the Month | Food Empowerment Project
Summary: Bead & Reel speak to lauren about her passion for food advocacy, what we can do to help, and what she’s eating right now.
Date: November 2016 | Source: Bead & Reel | Category: Interview
- Voices From The Cooperative Movement
Summary: TESA Collective chatted with fellow advocates, activists, educators and cooperators about how to build a better world.
Date: November 2016 | Source: TESA Collective | Category: Interview
- Is a Vegan Diet Actually Cruelty-Free? A Conversation with Lauren Ornelas of Food Empowerment Project
Summary: Vegan Warrior Princesses Attack! connect with Lauren Ornelas, Founder and Executive Director of Food Empowerment Project to talk about all the ways our food may still contain cruelty even when it’s technically vegan.
Date: October 2016 | Source: Vegan Warrior Princesses Attack! | Category: Podcast
- lauren Ornelas: Food as a Tool for Change
Summary: Talk given Saturday Oct 8, 2016 at the San Francisco Vegetarian Society’s 17th annual World Veg Festival.
Date: October 2016 | Source: SF VegSociety | Category: Video
- I had never heard of veganism until I got connected with a local animal rights group
Summary: Lauren Ornelas is the founder and director of the Food Empowerment Group, we caught up with her to talk about her own journey into veganism and what she found when she investigated factory farms during her time as director at Viva! USA.
Date: September 2016 | Source: Female First | Category: Interview
- Pro-Intersectional Vegan Conference – INTERVIEW with lauren Ornelas
Summary: The Vegfest Express interviews lauren Ornelas of Food Empowerment Project for the Pro-Intersectional Vegan Conference at VegfestUK London.
Date: August 2016 | Source: The Vegfest Express | Category: Interview
- lauren Ornelas Food Justice and Farm Worker Solidarity
Summary: lauren Ornelas of Food Empowerment Project discusses food justice and access at the annual Animal Advocacy Camp .
Date: June 2016 | Source: Liberation BC | Category: Video
- Vallejo focus of healthy food survey
Summary: Food Empowerment Project releases study at the Vallejo Healthy Food Fest.
Date: June 2016 | Source: Daily Republic | Category: Article
- Vallejo to promote more nutritional options in city at first Healthy Food Fest
Summary: Article regarding the release of the findings in Vallejo: City of Opportunity Lacks Access to Healthy Food and the Vallejo Healty Food Fest.
Date: June 2016 | Source: Benicia Herald | Category: Article
- Inaugural Healthy Food Fest set in Vallejo
Summary: Announcement about the Vallejo Healthy Food Fest.
Date: June 2016 | Source: Daily Republic | Category: Article
- Healthy food access not equitable in Vallejo, study finds; free food event planned
Summary: Article regarding the release of the findings in Vallejo: City of Opportunity Lacks Access to Healthy Food and the Vallejo Healty Food Fest.
Date: June 2016 | Source: Times-Herald | Category: Article
- 2016 Berkeley Vegan Earth Day – lauren Ornelas
Summary: lauren Ornelas speaking at the Berkeley Vegan Earth Day 2016
Date: May 2016 | Source: Compassionate Living | Category: Video
- Food Justice—Farm Worker Rights, Human Rights Abuses, and Food Access Issues
Summary: See lauren Ornela’s talk from the Interspecies & Intersectional Justice Conference, the Whidbey Institute filmed March 2016.
Date: May 2016 | Source: Interspecies & Intersectional Justice | Category: Video
- Freedom of Species: Food Empowerment Project
Summary: May Day themed interview with lauren Ornelas of Food Empowerment Project.
Date: May 2016 | Source: Freedom of Species | Category: Podcast
- Food Empowerment Project with lauren Ornelas
Summary: The Compassionate Road interviews lauren Ornelas of Food Empowerment Project.
Date: April 2016 | Source: The Compassionate Road | Category: Interview
- AMONG THE ANIMALS | Food Empowerment Project comes to Seattle
Summary: Queen Anne & Magnolia News article announces Food Empowerment Project Washington Chapter.
Date: March 2016 | Source: Queen Anne & Magnolia News | Category: Article
- How Your Food Choices Can Change the World
Summary: lauren Ornelas’ talk at the 2015 San Francisco Vegetarian Society’s 16th annual World Veg Festival event.
Date: October 2015 | Source: SF VegSociety YouTube Channel | Category: Video
- Barefoot Vegan: Q&A with lauren Ornelas
Summary: Barefoot Vegan Magazine interviews lauren Ornelas of Food Empowerment Project.
Date: September 2015 | Source: Barefoot Vegan | Category: Interview
- Living in a Non-Vegan World, Lauren Ornelas Interview
Summary: It can be tough being vegan in a non-vegan world.) They discuss how to address non-vegan family and friends, as well as hear Andy’s review of the 2015 Animal Rights National Conference. The show ends with an interview with lauren Ornelas of the Food Empowerment Project.
Date: August 2015 | Source: The Bearded Vegans | Category: Interview
- Capitalism, Borders, and Animal Agriculture
Summary: lauren Ornelas and Crystal Contreras speak at the Resistance Ecology Conference 2015.
Date: June 2015 | Source: Burning Hearts Media | Category: Video
- Critiquing Privilege in Animal Advocacy Circles
Summary: A panel with Jacqueline Morr, Breeze Harper, lauren Ornelas at the Resistance Ecology Conference 2015.
Date: June 2015 | Source: Burning Hearts Media | Category: Video
- Community Self-Determination through Food Justice
Summary: FEP Director, lauren Ornelas speaks at the Resistance Ecology Conference 2015
Date: June 2015 | Source: Burning Hearts Media | Category: Video
- Food Sovereignty and the US Social Forum
Summary: “lauren Ornelas writes about the impact the World Social forum had on her, and about food sovereignty and the US social forum”
Date: June 2015 | Source: Telesurtv | Category: Article
- Is Blue Apron the Future of Home Cooking in America?
Summary: ” serving a niche audience and not really taking into consideration people that need access to fresh fruits and fresh vegetables”
Date: June 2015 | Source: Eater | Category: Article
- Eat to Live?…or Live to Eat Live?
Summary: F.E.P. Director, lauren Ornelas, is interviewed by Suzanne Z. Pedro regarding the ethics of our food.
Date: May 2015 | Source: Voice of America | Category: Interview
- Food Is Power: Interview with lauren Ornelas of Food Empowerment Project
Summary: “Far too few vegans and “animal rights” activists venture outside of the ethics of eating (and otherwise using) animal products, but lauren Ornelas, founder of Food Empowerment Project, is an outspoken advocate for true food justice and against exploitation in all its forms.”
Date: January, 2015 | Source: The Sustainable Investor | Category: Interview
- The Truth About Clif Bar
Summary: Clif Bar espouses five aspirations: “sustaining our business, brands, people, community, and the planet,” and yet steadfastly refused to disclose the source of its chocolate, until December, 2014, thanks to Food Empowerment’s 3-year campaign.
Date: December 2014 | Source: Striving With Systems | Category: Article
- Emeryville’s Clif Bar discloses where its cocoa comes from
Summary: Clif Bar disclosed the origin of its cocoa in December, 2014, thanks to The Food Empowerment Project’s urging.
Date: December 2014 | Source: Oakland Local | Category: Article
- West Africa boycott needed for slave-free chocolate, says consumer group
Summary: F.E.P. Director, lauren Ornelas, is interviewed regarding Child Labor in Chocolate Industry; counterpoint from International Cocoa Initiative (ICI).
Date: December 2014 | Source: Confectionary News | Category: Article
- Human Rights: Slaughterhouse Worker Suffering and Linking Oppressions
Summary: F.E.P. Director, lauren Ornelas, is interviewed regarding Slaughterhouse & Animal Agriculture Workers (labor issues).
Date: December 2014 | Source: Animal Voices | Category: Podcast
- Victory: Clif Bar Finally Reveals Source of Its Cocoa
Summary: Care2 petition summary of the Food Empowerment Project campaign to get “socially responsible” Clif Bar to be transparent about the source of their cacao/chocolate.
Date: December 2014 | Source: Care2 | Category: Article
- Food Empowerment Project’s lauren Ornelas Turns Compassion Into a Career
Summary: F.E.P. Director, lauren Ornelas, is interviewed regarding her animal advocacy, career and vegan lifestyle.
Date: December 2014 | Source: Swell! Magazine | Category: Article
- Fresh Cafe: Nov. 26, 2014
Summary: F.E.P. Director, lauren Ornelas, talks about social and animal injustices in the food industry .
Date: December 2014 | Source: Fresh Cafe @ KAFM Radio | Category: Radio interview
- Intersectionality: Links Between Veganism and Other Social Justice Movements
Summary: F.E.P. Director, lauren Ornelas, discusses intersections of social justice with panel moderated by John Beske (unrecorded).
Date: October 2014 | Source: Chicago Vegan Mania | Category: Panel discussion
- Eat Your Ethics
Summary: A talk by lauren Ornelas of the Food Empowerment Project at the 2014 Sonoma County VegFest on how one can eat their ethics.
Date: September 2014 | Source: Compassionate Living YouTube | Category: Video
- Be My (Ethical) Valentine: The Dark Side of Chocolate
Summary: F.E.P. Director, lauren Ornelas, discusses the labor problems underlying the chocolate industry.
Date: February 2014 | Source: Our Hen House | Category: Article
- Episode 56: lauren Ornelas
Summary: F.E.P. Director, lauren Ornelas, is interviewed regarding veganism, the lack of healthy food choices, environmental pollution, water usage and privatization, environmental racism, and human/child slavery in the chocolate industry.
Date: December 2013 | Source: Which Side Podcast | Category: Podcast
- Making Animal Rights/Human Rights More Than Just a Slogan
Summary: lauren Ornelas’ 2013 talk at the International Animal Rights Conference in Luxembourg
Date: September 2013 | Source: VeganKanal YouTube Channel | Category: Video
- Commonalities of Oppression
Summary: lauren Ornelas’ talk from the Animal Rights 2012 National Conference
Date: April 2013 | Source: FARM YouTube Channel | Category: Video
- Episode 109: “The love of all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”
Summary: During this week’s podcast, F.E.P. Director, Lauren Ornelas, is interviewed regarding the ethical issues of chocolate production.
Date: February 2012 | Source: Our Hen House | Category: Podcast
- Food Justice – Compassionate Eating Beyond Veganism
Summary: lauren Ornelas talk at the 2011 World Vegetarian Festival in San Francisco, California.
Date: October 2011 | Source: PacificVegan YouTube Channel | Category: Video
- How to Use Food Choices to Create a More Just World
Summary: lauren Ornelas, Founder and Director of the Food Empowerment Project, discusses how to use food choices to create a more just world at the 2011 Let Live Conference NW.
Date: May 2011 | Source: Let Live Foundation | Category: Video
- lauren Ornelas talk from the 2009 Animal Rights Conference Summary: lauren Ornelas’ talk on victories for non-human animals in agriculture. Date: July 2009 | Source: DoggyTV YouTube Channel | Category: Video