[ShareTompkins] Foodopoly Tomorrow (Tues): Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food and Water Watch to Speak Twice in Ithaca, NY on 24 September 2013

[A Wilson]

Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food and Water Watch and  
renowned food and anti-fracking activist is to speak in Ithaca, NY,  
for the first time. Ms Hauter will speak and sign books on 24th  
September 2013 at Cornell at 3pm in the Statler Auditorium and later  
Downtown at the 1st Baptist Church of Ithaca at 7pm.  The appearances  
will promote her book: Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food  
and Farming in America which examines corporate consolidation and  
control over our food system and what it means for farmers and  
consumers. Bufffalo Street Books will be providing the books at both  
events.

Both Events are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Wenonah Hauter is a renowned speaker, activist and organizer who has  
worked extensively on food, water, energy and environmental issues at  
the national, state and local levels. Food and Water Watch is a non- 
profit consumer rights group that focuses on government and corporate  
accountability. It is prominent in opposing irradiation, fracking,  
aquaculture, and GMOs, and supports organic, sustainable and small  
scale agriculture and access to safe water.

Ms Hauter will speak and sign books on 24th September 2013 at Cornell  
at 3pm in the Statler Auditorium and later Downtown at the 1st Baptist  
Church of Ithaca at 7pm. Bufffalo Street Books will be selling books  
at both events.

Sponsoring her visit to Ithaca will be Independent Science News, an  
Ithaca-based public interest website that specializes in reporting on  
food, agriculture, and health. Independent Science News is a news  
source developed by the Bioscience Resource Project, also of Ithaca.

“We are at a moment in history when it is becoming understood once  
again that agriculture and the food supply system are central to  
social welfare in its broadest sense. How we manage the food supply  
will largely determine whether our society becomes sustainable, our  
institutions democratic, the people healthy, the economy viable, and  
the climate stable. We invited Wenonah Hauter here because she, like  
Ithaca, has a strong tradition of independent thought and action. Both  
attributes are much needed here and now,” says Jonathan Latham,  
Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project.

Facebook Event Page: FOODOPOLY: by Wenonah Hauter, Ithaca, NY

Background

Wenonah Hauter:

 From 1997 to 2005 Wenonah Hauter served as Director of Public  
Citizen’s Energy and Environment Program, which focused on water, food  
and energy policy. From 1996 to 1997, she was environmental policy  
director for Citizen Action, where she worked with the organization’s  
30 state-based groups. From 1989 to 1995 she was at the Union of  
Concerned Scientists where, as a senior organizer, she coordinated  
broad-based, grassroots sustainable energy campaigns in several  
states. She has an M.S. in Applied Anthropology from the University of  
Maryland.

Food and Water Watch (http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/):

Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume  
is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. So we can all enjoy and  
trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of where  
their food comes from, keep clean, affordable, public tap water  
flowing freely to our homes, protect the environmental quality of  
oceans, force government to do its job protecting citizens, and  
educate about the importance of keeping the global commons — our  
shared resources — under public control.

Independent Science News (www.independentsciencenews.org):

Independent Science News is a website specializing in food,  
agriculture and health. It publishes investigative research and  
analysis of key topics in food safety and agriculture, including GMOs,  
pesticides, and agricultural systems. Its articles are reprinted by  
newspapers and websites around the world. It is based in Ithaca, NY.

The Bioscience Resource Project is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit  
based in Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Tel: 1-607-319-0279 Website: http://www.bioscienceresource.org/

  ITHACA CONTACTS:

Jonathan Latham, Ph.D., (jrlatham at bioscienceresource.org) Executive  
Director of the Bioscience Resource Project;

Allison Wilson, Ph.D. (a.wilson at bioscienceresource.org) Science  
Director of the Bioscience Resource Project.

Allison Wilson, PhD
Science Director
The Bioscience Resource Project

phone: 1 (607) 319 0279
a.wilson at bioscienceresource.org
www.independentsciencenews.org
and
www.bioscienceresource.org

"Good with Science"






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