The inaugural, 2015-2017 CLIP Fellows included David Giles, PhD (participated 2015-2016), Kathryn Gillespie, PhD (participated 2015-2016), Logan O'Laughlin, MA (participated 2016-2017), and Nancy White, PhD (participated 2015-2017). Each fellow taught two classes across the two-year program and engaged in extracurricular activities focused on the theme. In these classes, students critically and carefully considered how capitalism, racism, sexism, classism, and ecological degradation are (re)produced in society through food and our relationships with animals and the environment. Students critiqued the global agricultural industrial complex, animal slaughterhouses, extractive practices like fracking and mining, and other violent agricultural and environmental practices. They also examined resistance movements and struggles for justice, and evaluated whether they serve to perpetuate the existing system, suggest modest reform, or open pathways for radical systems transformation. They studied food and environmental justice issues at various scales, from the individual human and animal body and local Seattle-based organizations, to U.S. national policies and discourses and the global corporate food regime and resistance movements. Students engaged with literature and film, examined and articulated their own personal ethics and politics, and participated in and reflected on on-the-ground activism and alternatives.