Date : Thursday, 28 October 2010 From : 7:00pm To : 9:00pm
Category : Academics Location : Magruder Hall 2001
Event Description :
There are two sides to the global food crisis debate. On the one hand, there is have cost-effective but controversial methods of food production, pioneered by corporate farming and its agricultural economists and agricultural business conglomerates. These methods utilize high capital, high technology, and low labor techniques to squeeze profit and degrade food quality. On the flip side, there are the activists, the social scientists and non-governmental organizations, who are trying to feed the world by adopting methods that include human power and labor with an emphasis on food quality, not quantity. Dr. Bill Heffernan (University of Missouri) will be discussing both sides of the argument.
For more information, see Food Circles Networking Project: Connecting Farmers, Consumers, and Communities.
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