This episode features an interview with lauren Ornelas, founder and executive director of the Food Empowerment Project. We discuss what FEP is all about, colonization in regard to food, gentrification and the importance of vegan restaurants being part of the community, helping communities with a lack of access to healthy foods, farm worker-led boycotts, the problem with organizations like PETA having the spotlight, and more.

Here are links to some of the specifics mentioned:

Reclaiming Our Grassroots

Colonization, Food, and the Practice of Eating

Vegan Mexican Food

Vegan Filipino Food

Blindspotting

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