Our food choices can impact the food system, but deep and lasting change requires more than voting with our forks. As good food advocates, we need to vote with our votes and take action in our communities. Earlier this year, CUESA and SPUR co-sponsored Food Democracy 2020: Civic Engagement Through Food, a conversation with community leaders Nina Ichikawa, Executive Director of the Berkeley Food Institute, and Reem Assil, founder of Reem’s California.
Their conversation took place prior to the pandemic and many other twists and turns of 2020, but the lessons still resonate in terms of how we can use our collective energies to galvanize the good food movement this election season and beyond.