Fixing Our Food System Together
Join Us In London!
We're joining farmers on the streets of London for the Food In Our Hands rally on Saturday 26th April, and we need you there too! We will be uniting in solidarity with the Landworkers' Alliance and the many other organisations attending as we fight for the fair treatment of farmers and a safe and sustainable food system.
To find out more, please come along to one of our zoom calls on Wednesday 16th April or Tuesday 22nd April, both at 7pm.
Our Mission
Vegans Support the Farmers are campaigning for farmer-led demands to transform our broken food system, while also fundraising to improve the mental health of farmers struggling to cope right now.
Our aim is to create allyship between vegans and farmers, to shift the way in which the media pits vegans against farmers, and to make progress towards solutions to fix our food and farming systems together.
Our Goal For 2025
Stop Harmful Imports
It is currently legal for some types of food and drink produced to standards that have been outlawed for our farmers to still be imported and sold. This not only undercuts the products produced to higher standards by British farmers, but it allows the harmful practices to continue abroad where they are hidden from us. We need this to end and for legislation to be created that holds imports to the same standards as our farmers.
One of the biggest threats to our existence on this planet is the crisis in our global and national food systems. As we work towards a just and sustainable food system, we need to consider justice from all angles - and that includes farmers. Currently, vegans and farmers never speak constructively and that holds us back from making change. No progress can be made without our farmers - we need them and their knowledge to provide our food.
Vegans have much more in common with farmers than you may think: a feeling of isolation from the rest of society, unfair media portrayals, and strong concern about the environment. It is in our common interest to overhaul the system and we must unite under that banner or we face a very uncertain future. We're reaching a critical point where we must implement food system change now!
The future is bleak for many British farmers. The departure of the UK from the European Union, and subsequently the Common Agricultural Policy, has seen the subsidies that farmers rely on to make a living phased out. The financial situation deteriorated further in 2022 as prices for grain and fertiliser rose sharply at the outbreak of war in the Ukraine and we saw the residual impacts of Coronavirus pandemic continue.
On a political and cultural level, farmers feel attacked by government policies that favour cheap, imported food over home production and a society underpays and undervalues them. It is no wonder that farmer suicide rates are three times the national average and the mental health of the farming community has become a serious concern for farming charities.
The only way we can overcome the challenges ahead in our food system is to have a strong farming sector that can respond to the crisis.
Want To Help Our Farmers?
Please donate to our fundraiser that aims to raise £100,000 to help Young Farmers with their mental health.