[ESSP] local food meeting

[Vanessa Paulman]

"Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world,
   that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines,
   to a considerable extent, how the world is used."
                                                      -Wendell Berry

The HAMPSHIRE LOCAL FOOD INITIATIVE announces its first meeting and movie
screening, Thursday 10/28 at 4pm in East Lecture Hall, FPH.

    In addition to the inaugural meeting of the Local Food student group, we
will be screening The Global Banquet: Politics of Food; a documentary that
introduces the social, nutritional and environmental problems of a globalized
food supply worldwide.

(Local food snacks: cider donuts, apples etc.!)

The Hampshire Local Food Initiative is a group committed to a number of related
issues, including:

   - Bringing more locally-grown and processed foods into SAGA;
   - Localizing the Hampshire Dining Service by kicking out Sodexho 
(the multi-            
     national that runs our dining hall) and forming a Hampshire College-run
     food service;
   - Promoting research and education about issues related to local food, like
     the globalization/industrialization of agriculture and food systems, rural
     socio-economics, community development, nutrition, environmental
     sustainability, and rural heritage;
   - Exploration of bigger ideas such as the formation of a Five-College Dining
     Service with local and sustainable priorities, and the establishment of a
     consortium of local-food comunities in different bioregions that would
     trade to address seasonal differences.
   
-The Local Food Initiative is currently meeting with the Hampshire
   administration, faculty and dining service, as well as local non-profit
   entities, to further these goals.
-The student group will be involved with this and other activism, including
research, publicity, advocacy and education about issues related to local food.


For more info, email waw02 or lad01.

-HLFI
-- 
Vanessa Paulman       
Center for Science Exploration
Hampshire College

phone: (413) 559-5792
fax: (413) 559-5438
Adele Simmons Hall #132

http://ScienceExploration.hampshire.edu


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