TakePart and Grist.org got together at the Slow Food Nation Convention in San Francisco recently to talk to leaders in the Food Movement. Listen to what they have to say and let us know your thoughts.
Eric Schlosser
Eric is an award-winning American journalist and author best known for his bestselling book, Fast Food Nation, an exposé on the unsanitary and discriminatory practices of the fast food industry that was later turned into a film of the same name. He is also a co-producer of the 2008 documentary "Food, Inc." (more)
Action: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Jennifer Fearing
Jennifer is chief economist of The Humane Society of the United States, an animal rights group. Before joining The HSUS, Fearing was president and CEO of United Animal Nations, where she helped lead programs focused on bringing animals out of crisis and into care. (more)
Action: Yes on Prop 2
Andrew Kimbrell
Andrew is executive director of the Center for Food Safety, a non-profit public interest and environmental advocacy membership organization established in 1997 by its sister organization, International Center for Technology Assessment, for the purpose of challenging harmful food production technologies and promoting sustainable alternatives. He is one of the country's leading environmental attorneys, and an author of several articles and books on environment, technology and society, and food issues. (more)
Action: The Center for Food Safety
Deborah Koons Garcia
Director, writer, producer Deborah Koons Garcia fell in love with filmmaking when she first picked up a Bolex while a student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1970. Her feature film, Poco Loco, "finds its groove in gentle romantic fantasy" according to Variety, and won awards at the Philadelphia, Rivertown and Orlando Film Festivals. (more)
Action: The Future of Food
Wes Jackson
Wes Jackson is the author of several books including New Roots for Agriculture and Becoming Native to This Place and is recognized as a leader in the international sustainable agriculture movement. (more)
Action: International Criminal Court Victims Trust Fund
Raj Patel
Raj Patel is an academic, journalist, activist and writer. He is the author, most recently, of Stuffed and Starved, a critically acclaimed book about why the world experiences both obesity and hunger. (more)
Action: RajPatel.org
Dan Barber
Dan Barber is the chef and co-owner of Blue Hill restaurant in New York City, a 2001 James Beard Award nominee for best new restaurant and a noted neighborhood eatery that continues to celebrate the farms of the Hudson Valley with its menus. In the summer of 2002, Food & Wine Magazine featured Dan as one of the country's "Best New Chefs." (more)
Action: Sustainable Table
Anna Lappé
Anna is a national bestselling author and sought-after public speaker, respected for her work on sustainability, food politics, globalization, and social change. With her mother, Frances Moore Lappé, Anna leads the Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute, a collaborative network for research and popular education, and the Small Planet Fund. (more)
Action: Small Planet Institute
