Farming & Food Conference

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

 

This sounds like a great conference on how our food is grown. $30 or free to

students with ID (see below).

 

Golden Gate University School of Law Announces a Law and Policy Conference

 

FARMING AND FOOD: HOW WE GROW WHAT WE EAT

 

Friday, November 13, 2009 ~ 9:00am to 4:30pm

536 Mission Street, San Francisco

 

Cosponsors:

Environmental Law Section of California State Bar · Environmental Law Section

of Bar Association of San Francisco · Agriculture

Subcommittee of Business Law Section of California State Bar · Fitzgerald

Abbott & Beardsley LLP · Center for Food Safety ·

Peninsula Open Space Trust · Sustainable Agriculture Education · San

Francisco Garden Resource Organization

 

Presenters:

Susan Bragdon (CEC Maize and Biodiversity Advisory Group) · Lloyd Carter

(California Save Our Streams Council) · George Kimbrell (Center for Food

Safety) · Jude Koski (San Francisco Garden

Resource Organization) · Sibella Kraus (Sustainable Agriculture Education-SAGE)

· Michael Lozeau (Lozeau Drury LLP) · Sara Pasquinelli (Fitzgerald Abbott &

Beardsley LLP) · Paul Ringgold

(Peninsula Open Space Trust) · Jeff Welty (University of North Carolina School

of Government)

 

Presentation Topics:

Cattle Grazing on the Urban-Rural Fringe · Livestock Slaughterhouse Standards

· Feedlot Runoff under the Clean Water Act · Grounds for Organic

Decertification · California Central Valley Irrigation

Subsidies · NEPA and Genetically Modified Crops · Mexico-U.S.Corn Trade ·

Seeds under International Law · New Ruralism and

California’s SB 375 · Page Street Community Garden

 

Registration and MCLE:

This conference has been approved for 4.5 hours of MCLE credit (with GGU School

of Law as the MCLE provider). For those

attendees seeking MCLE credit, the conference registration fee is $60. For

those attendees not seeking MCLE credit, the

conference registration fee is $30. Registration is free for all students,

whether enrolled at Golden Gate University or other

institutions, that can provide a current student identification card. To

register please contact Natascha Fastabend at 415.442.6604

or nfastabend. Space may be limited so pre-registration is encouraged.

 

For other inquiries regarding the conference program please contact conference

director, Associate Professor Paul Kibel, at

415.442.6685 or pkibel.

 

Made Possible by a Grant from the As You Sow Foundation