"The Politics of Food: Whatever Happened to Old MacDonald's Farm?"

According
to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, enough food is
produced globally to feed 12 billion people. Global population now stands at
6.3 billion. So why is it that 800 million people suffer from malnutrition and
1.8 billion from obesity, and diabetes and cardiovascular disease are on the
rise worldwide? Join us for the morning to learn about the dysfunctional
politics of food and such topics as industrial agriculture, genetically
modified organisms in food, food delivery systems, and the public policy that
undergirds them all. 

Our
panelists are:

Dr. Abby
Kinchy, Professor in the Science and Technology Studies Department at
Rensselaer Polytechnic University, Vassar alumna, and author of several books,
including Seeds, Science and Struggle:

The Global Politics of Transgenic Crops; 

Dr. Robert Paarlberg, Professor of
Political Science at Wellesley College and author of Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know;

Dr. Bruce Sherman, Director of the Bureau of Inspection and Regulation

in the Connecticut Department of Agriculture; and 

Dr. Molly Tambor, Assistant
Professor of History at C. W. Post Long Island University and a Smith alumna.

Questions
and discussion will follow the speakers’ presentations.  The cost is $40 per person, which includes lunch.