]Food has the potential to sustain life and health, as well as to cripple and debilitate.  Access to nutritious food is a fundamental human right too often neglected.

Food justice requires teaching every child how to recognize, source and prepare food that will sustain rather than debilitate.  It requires teaching food literacy in every school, and making food access a public policy priority.

Food literacy means understanding our food systems, and the interests of the players in it.  It means knowing how to separate advertising claims and marketing strategies from factual information; to trace messages to their sources, and to uncover the motivation behind them.

Food literacy means reestablishing a culture of communal food sourcing, preparation and enjoyment.  It means reclaiming school kitchens as hands-on classrooms, so this generation of American kids can prepare real, unprocessed food.

Food literacy includes understanding the range of impact of food, from our health and our environment, to the lives of the people who produce it.

Food literacy is central to the Food Justice Revolution, which must grow from the grassroots into places of power and privilege to create a food system that is healthy, sustainable, affordable and fair.