About this episode

The episode features Lauren Ornelas discussing the food system and the work of the Food Empowerment Project.

☕⁠ If you love the show, feel free to buy me a coffee 🎥 ⁠Watch the video podcast on YouTube⁠ 🌐Check ⁠The Flirty Vegan website⁠ 👉Follow ⁠@theflirtyvegan on Instagram⁠ 📣Join ⁠The Flirty Vegan Facebook Group⁠ ☎️ ⁠Book a FREE CONSULTATION CONNECTION CALL⁠ ⭐️Get the ⁠newsletter⁠ Lauren Ornelas is the founder and General Programs Team Member of Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice nonprofit that promotes veganism, fights for farm workers, works on lack of access to healthy foods in Black and Brown communities, and encourages people not to buy chocolate sourced from the worst forms of child labor, including slavery. She has been active in the animal rights movement since 1987, having started the first high school animal rights group in San Antonio, Texas, and then Action for Animals, a group she launched in college and that is still active in Austin. In 1999, lauren was asked by Viva!UK to start and run Viva!USA in 1999. As the leader of Viva!USA, lauren investigated factory farms and ran consumer campaigns, working with activists nationwide. In cooperation with other activists, lauren persuaded Trader Joe’s to stop selling duck meat, convinced Pier 1 Imports to…

People in this episode

Host: Jenny Cheifetz

Guest: Lauren Ornelas

Topics covered

• food system
• veganism
• food justice
• farm workers
• healthy foods
• child labor
• animal rights

Keywords

• food system
• veganism
• food justice
• farm workers
• healthy foods
• child labor
• animal rights

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Food Empowerment Project

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