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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this FREE/donation event and unique opportunity to meet 
 and hear Free from Harm’s founder and director, Robert Grillo’s 
 presentation, Fictions, Facts and Food Choices, a 45-minute presentation 
 about how popular culture uses a set of fictions to manipulate our beliefs 
 about animals as well as the food choices that stem from those beliefs. 
 This version of his visually compelling presentation speaks specifically to 
 an animal advocacy audience, explaining how a deepened awareness of these 
 fictions can empower our advocacy, and will be followed by a lively open 
 discussion. It is also the subject of his upcoming book.\n\nWe are what we 
 eat, but what are the powerful forces shaping our food choices? Billboards, 
 Facebook ads, buses wrapped in signage, TV commercials, Netflix movies, web 
 news posts, cooking shows, food courts, Pandora radio, Whole Foods 
 “feel-good” product displays, “farm-to-fork” restaurant brands. In 
 any given day, we face a deluge of fictions fabricated by the multi-billion 
 dollar food marketing industry which seeks to influence our purchasing 
 decisions. This visually engrossing presentation reveals how the powerful 
 forces of popular culture inform our food choices, often without our even 
 knowing it. In this fictional world, animals are willing participants in 
 whatever role we assign them. Grillo presents 23 of the most common food 
 fictions by showing us concrete and recognizable examples of each. Only 
 when our food choices are informed by facts instead of fictions are we led 
 to solutions to the most pressing ethical, environmental and health issues 
 of our time. Robert Grillo is currently the Founder of Free From Harm, an 
 animal sanctuary in Chicago, Ill. Here pictured with “Sweetpea” \n      
       \n           Reserve here with a small donation. No on turned away: 
 http://robertgrillo.eventbrite.com\nUnitarian Universalist Fellowship of 
 Los Gatos 15980 Blossom Hill Road, Los Gatos, CA \nPresented by Santa 
 Clara County Activists for Animals activistsforanimals.org 408.355.0436\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/26/18778134.php
SUMMARY:SCCAA Presents:Robert Grillo Fictions, Facts and Food Choices: A Marketing Professionals
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Los Gatos 15980 Blossom Hill Road, Los 
 Gatos, CA 95032
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/26/18778134.php
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