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DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM, Food and Water Watch, and \nThe International Forum on 
 Globalization present\n\nWENONAH HAUTER\nFoodopoly: The Battle Over the 
 Future of Food & Farming in America\nHosted by Claire Cummings\nWednesday, 
 January 23, 7:30 pm\nBerkeley City College\n2050 Center Street, Berkeley, 
 CA\n$12 advance tickets: On sale now at 
 http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/304415 :: 800-838-3006 \nor on sale 
 starting January 2 at Pegasus Books (3 locations), Marcus Books, Mrs. 
 Dalloway’s, Moe’s Books, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A Bookstore, and Modern 
 Times  ($15 door)   \nInformation: www.kpfa.org/events    KPFA 
 benefit\n\n“Wenonah Hauter knows where the bodies are buried beneath the 
 amber waves of grain. This is a terrific primer on the corporate control of 
 food in the U.S., and the actions of those who fight back. By turns 
 heartbreaking, infuriating and inspiring, Foodopoly is required reading for 
 anyone who wants to understand both the …challenge of reclaiming our food 
 system, and the urgency for doing so.” \n— Raj Patel, Stuffed and 
 Served: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System\n\nWenonah Hauter, 
 Executive Director of Food & Water Watch, is one of the nation’s leading 
 healthy food advocates. She has worked extensively on food, water, energy, 
 and environmental issues at the national, state and local level. 
 Experienced in developing policy positions and legislative strategies, she 
 is also an accomplished organizer who served from 1997 to 2005 as Director 
 of Public Citizen, Energy and Environment Program.  Prior to that she was 
 environmental policy director for Citizen Action, and a senior organizer at 
 the Union of Concerned Scientists. She runs an organic farm in Virginia 
 that provides healthy vegetables to more than 500 families in the 
 Washington, D.C. area. She contends that the local food movement is not 
 enough to solve America’s food crisis and the ensuing public health 
 debacle it has created.  In Foodopoly she aims at the real villain: the 
 massive consolidation and corporate control of food production, currently 
 preventing farmers from raising healthy crops, and limits the choices 
 people can make…\n\n“This may be the most important book on the 
 politics of food ever written in the U.S. “\n—Maude Barlow, author of 
 Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Fight for the Right to 
 Water.\n\n“A shocking and powerful reminder of the distance between our 
 image of the family farmer, and the corporate agribusiness reality. Make 
 sure you read it before dinner.”—Bill McKibben\n\n   Claire Cummings is 
 an author, journalist, and lawyer.  Her book, Uncertain Peril, won an 
 American Book Award. She has over three decades of experience in 
 agriculture, including four years in the Office of General Counsel for the 
 USDA, farming in California and in Vietnam, where she had an organic farm 
 in the Mekong Delta and advised the Ministry of Agriculture. She has 
 written advisories for Farm Aid, The National Family Farm Coalition, and 
 the Community Alliance with Family Farmers as well as a media guide on 
 agricultural biotechnology. Claire produced and hosted a popular weekly 
 public radio show on food and farming in Northern California for six years, 
 including a news segment called “Eater’s Digest” and reported 
 regularly for KQED television. Claire has served on the board and as 
 general counsel for many environmental groups, including The Elmwood 
 Institute, Food First, and Earth Island Institute.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/12/30/18729097.php
SUMMARY:WENONAH HAUTER Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food & Farming in America
LOCATION:Berkeley City College\n2050 Center St, Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/12/30/18729097.php
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