The Chicago GFPP Coalition is:
* Workers Center For Racial Justice
* Southside Organization for Unity and Liberation
* Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition
* United Electrical Workers Western Region
* Shared Harvest The Elgin Food Cooperative
* Advocates for Urban Agriculture
* Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project -FLAP
* National Employment Law Project
* Chicago Food Co-op Coalition
* Growing
Power
* Cook County PLACE MATTERS
* Real Food Challenge
* Rogers Park Food Co-op
* Door To Door Organics
* Chicago Jobs with Justice
* Dill Pickle Food Co-op
* Society for Obesity Awareness & Prevention
* Chicago Fair Trade
* Food & Water Watch
* Healthy Schools Campaign
* Chicago Community and Workers Rights
* Latino Union
* Restaurant Opportunities Center of Chicago
* The Praxis Project
* Growing Power, Inc.
* Food Chain Workers Alliance
* Seven Generations Ahead
* Illinois Stewardship Alliance
* Sugar Beet Food Co-op
* Women Employed
* Real Food challenge
* Warehouse Workers for Justice
* Urban Medicibe Program UIC College of Medicine
* Shared Harvest Food Cooperative
The coalition is working to enact GFPP in Chicago and its five values:
Fair: Provide safe and healthy working conditions and fair compensation for all food chain workers from production to consumption. Humane: Provide healthy and humane care for livestock. Healthy: Promote health and well-being by offering generous portions of vegetables, fruit, and whole grains; reducing salt, added sugars, fats and oils; and eliminating artificial additives. Local: Support for small and mid-sized agricultural and food processing operations within the local area or region – We know this is going to be limited here in Chicago, but we envision this policy helping to strengthen local year-round urban farms, such as Growing Power and Growing Home. Sustainable: Source from producers that employ sustainable production systems that reduce or eliminate synthetic pesticides and fertilizers; avoid the use of hormones, antibiotics and genetic engineering; conserve soil and water; protect and enhance wildlife habitat and biodiversity; and reduce on-farm energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
