{"id":7553,"date":"2023-09-12T13:10:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T12:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/?p=7553"},"modified":"2023-09-12T13:10:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T12:10:57","slug":"standing-for-global-food-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/2023\/09\/12\/standing-for-global-food-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing for Global Food Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week we have been focussing on how we can <strong>LIVE IN SOLIDARITY<\/strong>  with small scale farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some parts of the world, farmers are going hungry despite being the ones who are growing the food. That may sound strange but farmers&#8217; rights to choose what seeds they use is under threat as new laws are introduced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Small farmers must buy commercial seeds from big companies which is good for big business profits&nbsp; but not so good for the farmers who grow the majority of the world\u2019s food.&nbsp; THIS IS NOT A FAIR SYSTEM!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huge numbers of farmers who are affected are women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Generations of knowledge about farming is being lost because they are restricted in what they can grow and sell and how much it is sold for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of a variation of crops, they are restricted in the seeds they can buy and <em>who<\/em> they can buy them from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here at St Julie&#8217;s we have been signing the CAFOD petition that demands:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>the protection of the rights of farmers to save, use exchange and sell their own varieties of seeds  <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>      2. an end to policies the limit small farmers the choice to choose which seeds they access<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#livesimply #cafod<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/5639CAC2-2481-44D7-81A8-8F28F010731A-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7554\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/5639CAC2-2481-44D7-81A8-8F28F010731A-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/5639CAC2-2481-44D7-81A8-8F28F010731A-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/5639CAC2-2481-44D7-81A8-8F28F010731A-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/5639CAC2-2481-44D7-81A8-8F28F010731A-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/5639CAC2-2481-44D7-81A8-8F28F010731A-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we have been focussing on how we can LIVE IN SOLIDARITY with small scale farmers. In some parts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chaplains-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7558,"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions\/7558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chaplaincy.stjulies.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}