We Can't Eat Money: Full-Bodied Food Economics Webinar

An Economy of Our Own
United States
Monopoly profits are bad for your diet. Let us count the ways!
Corporate and monopoly domination by a few HUGE conglomerates lobby for subsidies and tax breaks to add to their profits, while squeezing farmers made into low-paid employees and customers facing prices that rise higher than paychecks.
What practices enable farmers to regenerate soil health and provide healthy food at an affordable price? And what the heck is going on with the 5-year, $1.5 Trillion dollar, US Agriculture Bill? Will we adopt the Wall Street version or the Regenerative version that envisions farmers as keepers of a sacred trust?
Find out by tuning in. Come join us in reclaiming this land as OUR land, in need of our care and attention. Food is life! Food shouldn't be a weapon in billionaire global money wars! We'll share resources for learning and host a great conversation among women who know what we're up against, and what works better.
Meet the Speakers
- Leading the conversation is Jules Salinas, Executive Director of WFAN (Women's Food and Agriculture Network), an organization that connects women land-owners, farmers, and producers to change the way we do food business, honoring the Earth, our farmers and workers, and communities we love
- Also joining us is Niaz Dorry with the National Family Farm Coalition and North America Marine Alliance. Niaz recently won a James Beard award for her work advocating for policies that can transform food systems away from big-business control to locally-led operations steeped in values like fair prices, racial justice, and the right to live in vibrant and healthy communities
- we'll also hear from Janice St. Onge, of Flexible Capital Fund, L3C, an CDFI (Community Development Finance Institute). Janice has long been associated with the Vermont Farm to Plate program, and Northern New England Women's Investor Network. She's current president of the Flexible Capital Fund, whose mission is to invest in growing companies that strengthen the local Vermont food systems and other natural resources sectors
Don't miss it! RSVP for access to our curriculum for further learning and the chance to ask questions in advance and during the live conversation of our panelists.