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DESCRIPTION:A Report Back From the Sacramento Mobilization: How Emerging Technologies 
 Will Hurt Asian Farmers & American Consumers\n\n\nWho: 	Jayson Cainglet, 
 International Activist from the Philippines and other Speakers 
 \nWhen:	Thursday, June 26th at 7:00 pm\nWhere: 	Oakland Asian Cultural 
 Center, Room 5\n388 Ninth Street, Suite. 290 \nOakland, CA 
 94607\nTelephone: 510.637.0455\n\nAbout the Event\n\nJayson Cainglet is a 
 farmer and political activist from the Philippines who has worked on 
 agriculture, food security, trade, and economic justice concerns for over 
 15 years. He has worked extensively with the Philippine National Peasant 
 Movement (PKMP) and a broad network of food sovereignty advocates called 
 the Task Force Food Sovereignty \n\nThe event will explore how food 
 irradiation threatens the livelihood of familyP farmers in the Philippines 
 as well as posing a local danger for California school children. Jayson 
 will explain how American consumers can work against the trends of 
 globalization that jeopardize food safety and endanger farmers throughout 
 Asia.\n\n\nWhat is Food Irradiation?\n\nIrradiated food has been exposed to 
 radiation equivalent to millions of chest x-rays, in order to destroy 
 invasive insects and drastically extend shelf life.  This process allows 
 multinational food corporations to ship food all over the world and exert 
 tremendous control over the food system.  Local and indigenous farms and 
 farm workers will be pushed aside to build huge factory farms controlled by 
 powerful agribusiness corporations.  In Southeast Asia, the U.S. 
 irradiation company SureBeam has been actively negotiating in at least 
 three countries to construct facilities, threatening the livelihood and 
 well-being of farmers throughout the region.  \n\nFor more 
 information:\nKoshlan Mayer-Blackwell\nPublic 
 Citizen\n510.663.0888\nkmayerblackwell@citizen.org\nwww.citizen.org/california\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/21173.php
SUMMARY:Report Back From Sacramento: How Technologies Threaten Food Safety and Farmers
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Room 5\n388 Ninth Street, Suite. 290 
 \nOakland, CA 94607\nTelephone: 510.637.0455\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/21173.php
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