The Fat Lib Circle focuses on an aspect of food justice that is often overlooked - discrimination, stigma, and systemic oppression based on body size.
Advance governmental and institutional policies that:
Build on cultural values around food and eating
Acknowledge that weight stigma and discrimination place people in vulnerable conditions
Integrate culture, agriculture, nourishment, and wellbeing
Identifying policy priorities related to size based discrimination
Planning and promoting policy advocacy opportunities related to size based discrimination
Spreading awareness about the relationship between size based discrimination and food systems in the Food Policy Council and Hampshire County