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What makes a meal ethical, and how can we avoid foods that are bad for our health and the environment? Author Sandor Ellix Katz, peace activist Satish Kumar, fair-trade advocate Harriet Lamb, and human rights activist Helena Norberg-Hodge cover a [...]host of popular movements, from locavorism to "slow food," in the fifth session of the conference The Future of Food: Transatlantic Perspectives.
Hosted by The Institute for Human Sciences, BU Food and Wine Programs, MET Department of Gastronomy, and the Center for International Relations on May 9, 2009.
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International peace advocate Satish Kumar gives the opening keynote address in a two-day conference on the growing global food crisis and the transformation of the food system over the past thirty years. Kumar argues that the problems with the [...]current system, from factory farming to famine, arise when we lose our cultural and spiritual connections to our land and food.
Hosted by The Institute for Human Sciences, BU Food and Wine Programs, MET Department of Gastronomy, and the Center for International Relations on May 9, 2009.
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