Faith, Food Justice, and the Farm Bill

Please join us for an important forum on food justice on October 23 at Riverside Church. This
free educational event will highlight the crucial role of the faith community in the food justice
movement, particularly in reforming national food policy.   The event will answer questions
such as: 
How can faith institutions help combat obesity, hunger, and lack of access to healthy food?
How do religious principles suggest how our food system should be reformed?
How can religious leaders and their congregates take on corporate agribusiness to shape
national food policy?

This forum will provide tools, resources, and opportunities to take action on the federal Farm
Bill, the nation’s greatest influence on what eat.  The Farm Bill is being taken up by Congress in
2012 – providing faith institutions with an extraordinary opportunity to improve our food
system. 

In addition to keynote speakers there will be several panels of leading faith and food justice
advocates. These esteemed panelists will be outlining the local impacts of the food system on
consumers, farmers, food workers, and the environment while discussing solutions that ensure
New Yorkers have access to a healthy food diet.   

Sponsored by Faith Leaders for Environmental Justice.  Co-sponsors include Riverside Church,
Food & Water Watch, the Hunger Action Network of New York State, Bread for the World, and
Bronx Health REACH.

For more information, contact the Faith & Justice Food & Farm Bill Working Group: Ryan
Brown: rbrown@bread.org, or Mark Dunlea: dunleamark@aol.com