What do meatpacking plants and prisons have in common, besides being (preventable) hotspots for #COVID19?
1. They’re oppression systems designed to fuel capitalism and white supremacy
2. @Aramark profits off of both
Over 15,000 working-age adults have died of COVID since March 15, waiting for Biden to issue safety protections. Last week he did - but only for health care workers. Contact https://t.co/n2MDqfaspI, and tell Biden: #ProtectAllWorkers
Indigenous salmon protectors and students are organizing to stop GE salmon from hitting our plates - and it’s working!
all three of the biggest cafeteria companies have committed to not purchase or sell @AquaBountyFarms creepy corporate frankenfish
https://t.co/9j4yBLNfuN
For #WorldOceansDay, let's not repeat the same corporate-controlled, profit-before-people models that we have in land-based industrial agriculture!
Add your name to the #BoycottGMOSalmon petition:
https://t.co/RoZknx9gTT
#BoycottAquabounty
“This move on the GE salmon is nothing more than the continuation of the colonization of the Earth the people and resources that we've seen for thousands of years.” - words of Hartman Deetz from the Mashpee Wanpanoag, some of the first people to encounter the colonizer.
“Over 50% of universities across the United States contract out their foodservice... the majority of those contracts are with The Big 3.” - Food Justice Organizer @mina4bds of @unr_now#PunishmentProfit
“The biggest foodservice corporations in terms of profit & reach are @Aramark, @sodexoUSA & @compassgroupusa. We call them The Big 3. They operate internationally and all of them contract with & profit from prisons.” - Food Justice Organizer @mina4bds of @unr_now
Here's your opportunity to learn about food service in the prison industry! Watch the Food + Commissary episode of #PunishmentProfit hosted by @WorthRises live here today at 7pm ET: https://t.co/yTiUTmXhdA
A movement is growing! Students are rejecting Big Food companies like @Aramark that profit from racism, extraction and exploitation all along the food supply chain. They demand #RealMeals on their campuses - grown with fair treatment of people & the Earth. https://t.co/u3du5EEfih
Their biz model is all of this - plus they’ve rigged it with corporate kickbacks to lock out better food.
We’ve got receipts & a roadmap for #RealMeals.
https://t.co/pgkzsvCTh5
This is great news for fishers in the local Baltimore area that now will be able to sell their fish to the local community through JHU! Shout out to @unr_now and @RealMealsNow and JHU student organizers who organized this win.
Reports like this make clear it’s high time @Aramark adopts @RealMealsNow roadmap to reduce industrial meat, divest from the #ClimateCrisis & invest in BIPOC farmers & a food system w/ a future.
Here’s how: https://t.co/ybRH7cyLyP
🎉 #RealMealsCampaign Victory!Johns Hopkins University ends food service contract with Bon Appétit (@CompassGroupUSA), setting the stage for a more just campus food system.
Students want nourishing, community support meals - not harmful Big Food. #Rise4FoodSovereignty