'Fresh': New Thinking About What We're Eating

Posted by admin on Mon Feb 22 21:58:12 2010 to Upper Valley Food

Maybe you've heard about the local food movement but do you know why people think it's so important? Is industrialized food, whose goal is to make money for corporations rather than feed people better, a good thing? With e coli and salmonella contamination causing food recalls to be constantly in the news and reports of ammonia in the ground beef used in fast food burgers and school lunches, are you concerned about where your food comes from?

Food is possibly our most fundamental need and yet it has become increasingly abstract and difficult to understand. Can we change the way that we produce food to provide healthier choices for ourselves while causing less damage to the planet?

If you'd like to learn more about these issues, go see 'Fresh' on Wednesday February 24th at 6:30PM in The Howe Library in Hanover, co-sponsored by The Co-op Food Stores and Slow Food Upper Valley are co-sponsoring a showing of the movie 'Fresh'.

Fresh features urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, the recipient of MacArthur’s 2008 Genius Award; sustainable farmer and entrepreneur, Joel Salatin, made famous by Michael Pollan’s book, "The Omnivore’s Dilemma"; and supermarket owner, David Ball, challenging our Wal-Mart dominated economy.

The 70 minute film will be followed by a panel discussion by Co-op Merchandiser Dot Benham, Co-op Director of Merchandising Paul Hoffman, and Co-op Sustainability Coordinator Emily Neuman. The panel will also feature Henry Homeyer, a well-known Upper Valley gardener and columnist for the Valley News. The film and the panel are free to the public; 100 seats are available.

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