PRINCIPLES FOR A JUST FOOD SYSTEM

Everyone has a right to food

Everyone has a right to food security

Food producers have a right to just prices/wages

Land ownership carries social responsibility

Land use demands stewardship


PRAYERS FOR FOOD AND JUSTICE

O, God, to those who have hunger, give the bread.
And to those who have bread, give the hunger for justice.
South American Prayer


Food should be treated with respect since
our Lord left Himself to us in the guise of food.
Dorothy Day


Bread is given to us not that we eat it alone, but that others who are indigent might be partners. When we eat bread acquired unjustly, we eat not only our own bread but another’s – for nothing that we have unjustly is ours.
Master Eichert


The world is like an uneven load. On one side, many people and little food.
On the other side, lots of food and few people.
An uneven load is dangerous. It is apt to tip over at any moment.
Brazilian translation


Communion, thanksgiving, sharing life, food and hope are gifts given to those who follow Jesus’ way of having pity and compassion on crowds of poor and needy people.
Eucharist is not just an action of eating, but sharing.
Jesus’ life is given because he aligns himself with the poor and seeks to respond to their hunger with good news of God’s presence with them in his own person, in his life and death.
Megan McKenna, "Rites of Justice"


From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink.
Thomas Merton