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Ecological or Technological?
What standards and values ensure a safe and healthy food system?
Changemakers Day
August 29, 2008

Food safety is one way to measure of the health of our food system. In a world full of e-coli and salmonella, are antibiotics, radiation, and stricter sanitary standards, or other attempts to control nature, the best answer? Industrial agriculture, which relies on chemical and genetic technologies and monocultures, has produced mad cows, dead zones, and an intense debate over how to feed a growing world population at a time of ever-declining resources. Are the alternatives provided by organic, local and sustainable farming the answer? This panel will explore a wide range of opinions about the assumptions underlying agriculture and whether or not we have to choose between biology and technology.
 
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Moderator: Clair Cummings, Environmental Lawyer, Journalist, Author
Panelists: Andrew Kimbrell, Center for Food Safety; Elisa Odabashian, Consumers’ Union; Noelle G. Cremers, California Farm Bureau Federation

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