The Twelve Traditions of Processed Food Anonymous
- Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon P.F.A. unity.
- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
- The only requirement for P.F.A. membership is a desire to stop ingesting processed food.
- Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or P.F.A. as a whole.
- Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the processed food addict who still suffers.
- A P.F.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the P.F.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
- Every P.F.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
- Processed Food Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centres may employ special workers.
- P.F.A. as such, ought never be organised; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
- Processed Food Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the P.F.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
- Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.
- Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.