2003_Oct_High Price of Cheap Food

The High Price of Cheap Food: Following the Food Chain

Description

Award-winning environmental journalist Michael Pollan will talk about the lessons he has learned following a beef cow, an organic TV dinner, a bushel of corn, and a genetically modified potato through the food chain. He’ll share his firsthand experience with the tensions between the laws of the market and the laws of ecology and discuss the prospects for reforming an industrial food system that is undermining both our health and the health of the land.

Dates and Locations

Los Angeles

Oct. 29, 2003
Los Angeles Public Library

Costa Mesa

Oct. 30, 2003
Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa

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Michael Pollan

Pollan is author of five New York Times best sellers. In 2010 he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. A long-time contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, Pollan is the recipient of numerous journalistic awards including the James Beard Award fo…

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