Webcast of Teach-in on Farm Bill

Posted by on April 2, 2007

Last week this event took place at UC-Berkeley with over 700 people in the audience– you can tune in on the web — thanks, Kathy

Food Fight: A Teach-in On the 2007 Farm Bill
March 21, 2007, 07:00PM
Auditorium Wheeler
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Michael Pollan moderates a panel discussion of the 2007 farm bill, now being debated, with guests Dan Imhoff, the author of Food Fight: A Citizen’s Guide to the Farm Bill; George Naylor, Iowa corn farmer and president of the National Family Farm Coalition; Ann Cooper, Director of Nutrition Services for the Berkeley school system, and other leaders in the effort to reform federal agricultural policies.

Every five years or so, the President signs an obscure piece of legislation that determines what happens on a couple of hundred million acres of private land in America, what sort of food Americans eat (and how much it costs) and, directly as a result, the health of our population. The American food system is a game played according to a precise set of rules that are written by Congress, typically with virtually no input from anyone beyond a handful of farm-state legislators. Nothing could do more to reform the American food system –an by doing so improve the condition of America’s environment and public health– than if the rest of us were to start paying attention to the farm bill.