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Food Justice: past, present, and future
March 11, 2015 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Who can buy healthy fresh vegetables in our region and who can’t? Why and why not? How has institutional racism shaped access to healthy food in our region and beyond? What is needed to build a resilient food system that provides for all?
The PV Grows Racial Equity in the Food System Working Group invites you to a conversation in which we will trace the practices of modern agriculture and food production back to plantation agriculture, examine some of the policies that have shaped food chain worker conditions, and together build tools for action in this region and beyond.
Then, we’ll imagine a Massachusetts where everyone has access to enough healthy, fresh, locally produced, safe, affordable, culturally appropriate food and where those that grow, harvest, distribute, and sell food make a living wage in a safe environment.
The Massachusetts Food Policy Council is leading a process to craft a statewide Food Systems Plan that ties together the many elements of the Massachusetts food system. The ideas generated at this event will inform the creation of an actionable plan to make our food system better serve our needs.
Light refreshments will be served.
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