Home » Events » Restaurants And Farms Must Lead The Way in Empowering Consumers And Taking Meaningful Climate Action At a Climate Week NYC event co-hosted by Food Tank and the James Beard Foundation, panelists discussed the central role restaurants and farms play in creating climate progress as key players in producing food. As key players in producing food, restaurants and farms can take on a central role in creating climate progress. During a standing-room-only Climate Week NYC event, hosted by Food Tank and the James Beard Foundation, panelists discussed the power of a food justice approach among those working on the ground in the food system. “Food is the gateway to all things justice,” Sheryll Durant, Board President of Just Food, said during the event. “Without justice in food, there is no justice anywhere else. From that, we can’t just think about food: We need to think about how it connects to our broader community.”’ The Summit, “Restaurants and Farms: A Key Solution to the Climate Crisis,” was presented along with partners Planet FWD, Brightly, Guckenheimer, Astanor and Protein PACT. Watch the full livestreamed event on Food Tank’s YouTube channel . Chefs and farmers don’t only feed us food—they feed us stories, panelists said. For too long, major industrial groups have been dominant, and have pushed a false narrative that harmful chemical inputs and exploitative labor practices and animal treatment protocols are necessarily to feed the world. “We’ve been sold this story that we don’t need to buy into anymore,” says Anna Lappé, Executive Director of The Global Alliance for the Future of Food. “The science tells us that agroecology is what we need to create farms that are resilient to climate shocks. It’s an incredibly positive story that we don’t hear as much.” One crucial way this […]