Novembr Day of Action

This month Slow Food has partnered with the Student/Farmworker Alliance to support and raise awareness of "fair" food in the United States. What exactly is "fair" food?

"Slow Food USA and Slow Food on Campus chapters seek to inspire a transformation in food policy, production practices and market forces to guarantee equity, sustainability and pleasure. Fair food encompasses good food that is accessible to all, regardless of income, and produced by people who are treated with dignity and are justly compensated for their labor. To make fair and lasting change a reality the integrity of the food we eat must be secured, and good treatment of the people who produce it must be assured."

The Student/Farmwork Alliance is an organization that works with farmworkers in Southwest Florida to eliminate sweatshop conditions and modern-day slavery conditions. The SFA has be successful in raising awareness and working with many fast food companies to elimate their dependence on these farms. For more information on the SFA check our sfalliance.org.

Slow Food on Campus at the University of Delaware has decided on the following activities for our November initiative:
1) We are going to write "fair facts" aroudnd campus on the sidewalks. This will provoke thought between individuals and hopefully inspire individuals to do more research about the food that they eat and other, more fair options that are available. (If for some reason it should rain, which it always does in Delaware, we will be passing out the facts in the Student Center.)
To get all individuals in the group to participate in bringing facts into our next meeting, there is a competition, with prizes for the individuals who bring in the most facts. (First, second and third place!)
2) We are planning on screening a free documentary provided by the SFA.

Hopefully these activities will inspire students all across campus to take action and ask that their food be fair: to those who make it and those who buy it.