Food Justice

Jorts holds the new zine created by Jean.

Jorts the Cat Wants You to Care About Farmworkers’ Rights

By Twilight Greenaway

May 6, 2022

Jorts and Jean, some of the internet’s most famous cats, are turning the spotlight on labor organizing.

As Dollar Stores Proliferate, Some Communities Push Back

By Wesley Brown

April 13, 2022

Lays potato chips are displayed at a Dollar General store in Vallejo, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

‘Slaves for Peanuts’ Tells the Tragic Story Behind America’s Favorite Snack

By Gosia Wozniacka

April 12, 2022

jori lewis and the cover of her book, slaves for peanuts

‘Food Companies Didn’t Get the Memo’—Steven Greenhouse on the Unionization Wave

By Naomi Starkman

March 24, 2022

GLENDALE, CO - JANUARY 12: King Soopers grocery store workers wave signs as they strike at more than 70 stores across the Denver metro area on January 12, 2022 in Glendale, Colorado. About 7000 workers at the Kroger-owned grocery chain are set to strike for three weeks on claims of unfair labor practices. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

What a Surge in Union Organizing Means for Food and Farm Workers

March 17, 2022

New union members at Pindar Vineyards in Peconic, New York. (Photo courtesy of Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW)

A New Approach to Keep Former Foster Youth from Facing Food Insecurity

March 14, 2022

A foster youth teenager with blue hair in the kitchen cooking food

On the Ground in Ukraine With World Central Kitchen

March 11, 2022

Feeding Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion. (Photo credit: World Central Kitchen)

Is Michelle Wu America’s Food Justice Mayor?

March 9, 2022

Can an Illinois Bill Counteract the Decline of Black Farmers?

By Amanda Pérez Pintado, Investigate Midwest

February 25, 2022

The Field Report: A Deadly Bird Flu Resurfaces

February 16, 2022

a bird infected with avian bird flu looks ominously down

The Revival of Indigenous Subsistence Whaling Hangs in the Balance

February 8, 2022

A bowhead whale caught in September 2021, during the fall whaling season, in Utqiagvik. (Photo courtesy of Mary Lum Patkotak)

A Native American Food Truck Is Keeping Tribal Cultures Alive

By Zeb Larson, Belt Magazine

February 4, 2022

The NAICCO food truck in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo credit: NAICCO)

McDonald’s, Food Justice, and the Problem with Black Capitalism

January 31, 2022

dr. marcia chatelain and the cover of her pulitzer-prize-winning book franchise, about mcdonald's and black capitalism

Black Farmers Are Rebuilding Agriculture in Coal Country

By Natalie Peart, YES! Magazine

January 24, 2022

Veteran Farmers Jason Tartt and Sky Edwards inside one of the high tunnels they procured with the help of USDA NRCS. (Photo credit: Rebecca Haddix, USDA)

Op-ed: Indian Farmers Won Their Revolution, but the Fight’s Not Over

By Indra Shekhar Singh

January 19, 2022

Indian farmers shout anti-government slogans during a protest against new farm laws in December 2020. (Photo by Yawar Nazir/Getty Images)

Incarceration, Abolition, and Liberating the Food System

By Ashanté Reese

January 17, 2022

hands breaking free of chains in an illustration of liberation

Our Best Food Justice Stories of 2021

By The Civil Eats Editors

December 27, 2021

Robert Bullard leads a delegation from HBCUs during the People's Climate March.

Taking Stock And Looking Forward: Food Justice

By The Civil Eats Editors

December 27, 2021

low angle view of african american man with scarf on face holding placard with racism is a pandemic lettering against blue sky

Taking Stock And Looking Forward: Food Workers and Labor Organizing

By The Civil Eats Editors

December 23, 2021

Immigrant Agricultural Workers Critical To U.S. Food Security Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

Taking Stock And Looking Forward: Food System Overhaul

By The Civil Eats Editors

December 22, 2021

Shot of two young women working on a farm

Fighting Food Apartheid with Louisville’s Black Market Grocery Store

By Malia Guyer-Stevens

December 13, 2021

Shauntrice Martin's Black Market would become an experiment to test the limits and possibilities of community-led initiatives to address food access and respond to food apartheid.

An Inside Look at Union Organizing in the Fast Food Industry

December 7, 2021

A worker protesting Chipotle holds a sign while marching outside the store. (Photo by Jake Price)

A Baltimore Urban Farm Fights for Food Sovereignty in the Face of Eviction

By Jaisal Noor, Yes! Magazine

December 3, 2021

Black Yield Institute’s Cherry Hill Urban Community Garden. (Photo by Jaisal Noor)

Black Farmers Still Await Debt Relief as Lawmakers Resolve Racist Lawsuits

December 1, 2021

PRINCETON, INDIANA - OCTOBER 11: Glenn Morris, 83, harvests corn on October 11, 2021 in Princeton, Indiana. Morris is one of two full-time black farmers who still farm in Lyles Station, a region of Indiana once dominated by black farmers. Black farms in the U.S. once numbered nearly a million but now there are fewer than 36,000, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest farm census. Racist practices by the USDA, which provides farmers with loans to carry them from planting to harvest, have been blamed for some of that loss. The government is attempting to make amends with a provision in the pandemic relief bill that provides for debt forgiveness to help farmers of color. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The Inequity of Hunger: An Interview with Priya Fielding-Singh

By Matthew Wheeland

November 24, 2021

Priya Fielding-Singh and the cover of