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DESCRIPTION:Join Us For A Speak-Out and Eat-In For A Fair and Healthy Farm Bill, Wed. 
 Feb. 13th, 12pm\nUN Plaza Farmers Market, 1182 Market Street, San Francisco 
 – near Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office.\n\n-----\n\nThis Valentine’s 
 Day Season, join us as we urge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to have a heart 
 and support a Fair and Healthy Food and Farm Bill. We need a Farm Bill that 
 stops subsidizing corporate agribusiness at the expense of public health 
 and instead invests our tax dollars into creating a sustainable, healthy, 
 community-driven and just food system!  \n \nSpeakers Include:  Bryant 
 Terry, eco-chef, author, and Food and Society Policy Fellow; the California 
 Food and Justice Coalition;  Shyaam Shabaka, Founder and Director of the 
 Eco-Village Farm Learning Center; Local Farmers; Community Anti-Hunger 
 Advocates; Peggy De Silva from Veritable Vegetable, the oldest organic 
 produce distributor in the U.S.; and San Francisco’s Alemany Farm.   \n 
 \nWe live in an era of global food insecurity and chronic hunger, where 800 
 million a day go hungry,  small farmers worldwide are struggling to survive 
 in a consolidated agricultural industry, soil erosion, water and air 
 pollution and pesticides threaten our health and our farmland, and poor 
 communities in the United States have little access to affordable, 
 accessible, healthy food.  The U.S. Farm Bill shapes our broken food 
 system. \n \nWe know it’s time to take action for change.  The passage of 
 the 2007 Farm Bill through Congress has been marked by unprecedented and 
 previously unseen public demand for reform, which has compelled 
 California’s urban legislators to begin to vote in our favor.  In the 
 final stages of this campaign we must keep the pressure on.\n \nSO MUCH IS 
 STILL AT STAKE!  Our Representatives are cobbling together a Farm Bill from 
 the different House and Senate versions, and deciding how much money to 
 allocate to each program.   Neither of these bills include significant 
 reform of commodity programs, but Speaker Pelosi has the opportunity to use 
 her power to negotiate for meaningful reforms that will begin to transform 
 the food system – like limiting subsidy payments to people who are 
 actually farming (right now wealthy urbanites in New York City can get 
 subsidy payments), and closing loop-holes that allow mega-farms to receive 
 mega-payments.   We also need to ensure that vital food and farm justice 
 programs like the Community Food Projects Grants Program, which gives 
 grants to small food justice organizations like the Ecology Center, and the 
 Minority Farm Outreach Program, which helps minority farmers fairly access 
 Federal Government support programs, receive the full funding they deserve. 
  Go to http://www.cafoodjustice.org  for more information on how this Farm 
 Bill affects you.\n \nThis event is also an opportunity to listen to, 
 connect with, learn from, and get involved in important local programs and 
 campaigns to improve the bay area’s food system.  We encourage you to 
 bring a hearty lunch that reflects the kinds of foods you think our Farm 
 Bill should support.  After the speak out we’ll walk to Pelosi’s office 
 to deliver our message.\n\nGet involved in creating this event: 
 jessicabell@cafoodjustice.org, 510 704 0245, 
 www.cafoodjustice.org.\n\nBanner and sign making party, Sat. Feb. 9th, 12pm 
 – 4pm, 3208 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley. We’ll be making a big banner as 
 well as signs with love hearts on them.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/29/18475626.php
SUMMARY:Food Advocates Tell Pelosi: This Valentine's Have a Heart: Give Us A Farm Bill We'll Love
LOCATION:UN Farmers Market, 1182 Market Street, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/29/18475626.php
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