Eaters have a right to food.
Eaters have a right to safe food.
Eaters have a right to nutritious food.
Eaters have a right to food with country of origin labels.
Eaters have a right to know whether food has been genetically modified.
Eaters have a right to food produced without harming air, water or land.
Eaters have a right to food produced under socially just conditions.
Eaters around the world have a right to a secure food system.
Eaters have a right to good food at a fair price.
Eaters have a right to know the conditions of their food production
(transport, working conditions, treatment of animals and scale)
- taken from The National Catholic Rural Life Conference "Eaters' Bill of Rights".
A fair and just food system does not end when a person is fed. It begins when all people have equal access to healthy and ethical choices for nourishing our selves and our families. It requires that we pay attention, that we demand information and that we deeply value the true cost of what we consume. It is no longer enough to simply ask "how can we feed a community?" it is essential that we ask "how do we as a community feed ourselves?".
