Food Empowerment Project

Bringing your favorite wine to holiday parties this season? Make sure it’s vegan friendly! 🍾 It may come as a surprise to many that part of the winemaking process often involves the use of animal products. At the end of the process, wine is sometimes clarified using a variety of filtering mechanisms. Gelatins (made from animal bones), isinglass (obtained from fish bladders), and egg albumin are some of the most common filters in use today. 🍇 Read more here: https://buff.ly/2YK2iGn . . . [ID: Purple wine grapes in a field with text that reads, “Is your favorite wine vegan?]

Earlier this year, F.E.P. transitioned to following a collective model! This new organizational shift represents the future we want to see. And with your support, we can continue planting seeds of justice for collective liberation. ♥️ Your donation directly fuels our fight for vegan food justice. We couldn’t do this without you, and now more than ever, we’re counting on you to support our work. 💌 All donations are matched up to 15k! 🎉 Send a donation to our website: https://buff.ly/3ZAkdkY

Call to action by @blklivesmatter 📣 Petition states, “President Biden is willing to save his son, but now he needs to use that same power to save the people sitting in federal prison and those facing the death penalty right now. This is the absolute minimum that President Biden must do before he leaves office. Add your name now to call on Biden to save the millions trapped in prison for non-violent offenses right now. He must grant that same clemency he gave his son to those he does not know.” Sign the petition here: https://buff.ly/3ZDcUsV

When you purchase our Food is Power tote, you’re supporting and amplifying a Xicanix-led organization’s message of vegan food justice! These totes are made ethically from recycled water bottles in the U.S. and the original "Food Is Power" design was created by the talented Meneka @menekarepka! 🤍 Give it as a gift to your farmer market loving friends and family, or use it as an everyday bookbag. 🌱 Shop it here: https://buff.ly/3CGgV3E

Protect the right to organize! Take action with Athena Coalition. Sign the petition linked our bio. 📣 Repost @athenaforall: Want to preserve a pro-worker majority at the National Labor Relations Board? President Biden nominated the chair for a new term, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer still hasn’t scheduled a confirmation vote. If the seat stays open, the board will swing to a corporate-friendly majority next year. That’s exactly what Amazon and other corporations want — and we can’t let it happen: buff.ly/3ZECug3 . . . [ID: light green hued graphic of Majority leader Chuck Schumer with text that reads, “Schedule the vote, Chuck!” Tell Senator Schumer to confirm pro-worker nominees to the NLRB: Bit.ly/NLRBvote”

As we learn more, we have become concerned about the accuracy of labels that come from Western entities and are placed on commodities produced in the Global South. Due to the absence of truly being able to verify this information in the realm of Fair Trade, navigating this terrain with confidence becomes slightly more difficult. Unfortunately, we cannot provide a statement that we fully trust Fair Trade. Learn more about the issues within fair-trade chocolate and coffee here: https://buff.ly/2RT0DMW

The F.E.P. team is calling on you to donate to our End-of-Year fundraiser starting today! Make Food Empowerment Project your choice of organization to support on this #GivingTuesday ♥️ Hear from each of us on what it means to have your support, and why now more than ever, we’re counting on you to help keep us planting seeds of justice for collective liberation. 🪴💌 Because of your donations, we’ve been able to: 🌱 Release multiple resources that help people go and stay vegan like Vegan Soul Food, Eating Vegan in College, Vegan Hacks, and more! 🎒Organize another successful School Supply Drive for the children of farm workers 🍅Continue fighting food apartheid in Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities by amplifying our Shame on Safeway petition. 🍫Helping people not support chocolate where child labor and slavery are the most prevalent by continuously updating our extensive chocolate list! We couldn't do this one-of-kind of work without you. Donate on our website here: https://buff.ly/3ZAkdkY 💌

It’s GivingTuesday! F.E.P. supporter, animal rights activist, and friend Christopher Sebastian shares a special message of what our work means to him, and why you should send a donation to keep our work going! ❤️ We couldn’t do this one-of-kind work without you. Make Food Empowerment Project your choice of organization to support on this Giving Tuesday! Help us continue planting seeds of justice for collective liberation by donating today! 🌱 Donate directly on our website here: 💌 https://buff.ly/3ZAkdkY

Are you vegan for the animals? We want to hear from you! 📣 F.E.P. is back with its social media series, Why Compassion? 🎉 This effort is to encourage folks from all generations to take pride in being vegan for the animals. This project will challenge stigmas around being vegan for ethical reasons. 🐮🐷🐣♥️ 🔗 Submit a 30 second video or audio recording sharing why you’re vegan for the animals! Filming guidelines and guiding questions for videos are included in the Google form here: https://buff.ly/3YHAAKQ All ages are welcome to apply! BIPOC vegans are strongly encouraged. Deadline to submit a video is Monday, December 16. Help us spread the word! Share this project with the hashtag #WhyCompassion to friends and family on social media to make an even bigger impact. 💚

#GivingTuesday is 2 days away! F.E.P. team members Kennedy and jaz are going live on this exciting day to share why supporting our work as a vegan food justice org is critical for our fight for all beings, human and non-human! 🌱♥️ 📅 Mark your calendars and we’ll see you over on our Instagram at 12pm PT / 3pm ET: https://buff.ly/2lFPvDe