Food Activism and Veganism

Food Activism and Veganism by Ashtonbee Community Garden and CCSAI Vegan Club.

Guest speaker: Prof. Nicoleta Zouri, School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Date: Friday, April 24th, 2020

Time: 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Zoom link:  rebrand.ly/foodactivism2020

Zoom Password: ACG202

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As a collaboration event of Vegan club and Community Food Garden Club, we propose to hold a webinar on food sovereignty and veganism. This topic has the intention to empowering students and make them understand and reflect about what they are eating and how to eat properly.

Students have to make important decisions about how to get food and to reflect where this food is coming from. It is the condition where people define their own food and agriculture systems to produce healthy and culturally appropriate food for people through ecologically sound and sustainable methods. For this, this webinar will present alternatives for students to learn how to access good food, how to eat good food, and how to grow their own food.

To learn and reflect about the importance of food, agriculture and the empowerment to produce your own food, this event will invite a speaker specialist in food sovereignty and urban agriculture. Food is a connection with environmental and social justice, however, our students not always understand the importance of the food and how their poor choices have their effect on the environment. Food sovereignty is the right of people to choose what type of food they want to eat and also where and how they get that food. Often, those with limited resources such as people who are low income, struggle to buy healthy food for themselves and their families due to structural inequalities. Inequalities that are observed in the college. For this, this event wants to bring the topic to reflection, to empower students on how to grow their food, to promote local and national markets and to change support the students addressing their food insecurity.