Hampshire Food Advocates

Mission Statement
The Hampshire Food Advocates are a collection of food justice activists that are creating student and worker voice in Hampshire’s food related initiatives and asking the school to change the way it is conducting the Healthy Food Transition. We have been organizing since the beginning of Fall 2014. We were trained by and work closely with the Real Food Challenge, a national student organization that is leveraging the power of students and universities to change our food system. The ultimate goal of the Real Food Challenge and the Hampshire Food Advocates is to divert money from a destructive food system and invest in a truly nourishing one.

The Hampshire Food Advocates envision a food transition that is governed by multiple stakeholders, completely transparent, and that reinforces national movements for justice. We are campaigning for student and worker decision making roles within the Healthy Food Transition, for a system of transparency to publicize the purchasing practices of Bon Appetit, and for participation in other movements for social change - like farmworkers rights.

We hope to build a body of informed and active students to become participants in the food transition at Hampshire Campus. We hope to add momentum to the Healthy Food Transition and push it in new, revolutionary directions. We plan to create social structures that allow for such engagement in years to come. For example, we are already working with Beth Hooker and Byron McCrae to plan a food systems working group that could become an official student-led decision making body.