Mar. 10: Food Policy discussion at UC Berkeley (free)

March 10, 2010

Jill Richardson with Michele Simon

March 10, 2010

7:30-9:00 pm

101 Morgan Hall, UC Berkeley

Join us March 10 at 7:30 pm for a conversation with Jill Richardson,

author of Recipe for America, and Michele Simon, author of Appetite

for Profit.

The dynamic conversation will run the gamut of food issues - the Farm

Bill, community food projects and councils, food labeling, school

lunches, food safety, and animal agriculture. Be part of the

conversation to learn how you can take action from voting with your

fork and beyond.

Jill Richardson got involved in food policy activism after working for

several years in health care and observing the high rate of

diet-related chronic illness among the American patient population.

She blogs at La Vida Locavore . Recipe for America : Why Our Food

System is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It is Jill's first book .

Marion Nestle hails Richardson as " a fresh voice in the movement to

create a healthier and sustainable food system. This book will be part

of the burgeoning food social movement, as it provides a guide to the

most important issues and how to work on them " and Civil Eats calls

Recipe for America " a handbook for the sustainable advocate in

training. "

Michele Simon is a public health lawyer who has been writing about the

food industry since 1996. She has a master's degree in public health

from Yale University and received her law degree from the University

of California, Hastings College of the Law. She specializes in legal

strategies to counter corporate practices that harm the public's

health and lectures frequently on corporate tactics and policy

solutions. Michele has written extensively on the politics of food,

and her first book, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry

Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back,was published by Nation

Books in 2006.

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