Food and Climate Change, with Dr. Wayne Roberts of the Toronto Food Policy Council
-- Open to the Public, Admission is Free

Host: Slow Food Hamilton
Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: McMaster University Campus, MUMC, Meeting Room 1A1, Hamilton, ON

Our food supply has become one that places convenience before taste, cosmetic appeal over nutrient value, and worst of all profits before people.

Awareness of the impact of climate change on our current unsustainable global food system is growing, while the cheap resources and economic conditions that have supported it are abruptly shifting. Our food security isn't something that we can take for granted anymore.

Can our individual food choices and habits make a difference -- and a siginficant one -- before climate change reaches that certain 'critical' point and becomes permanent climate disorder?

Add your voice to the growing global, national and community-wide conversations about the future of our food.

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Wayne has a diverse wealth of community organizing, administrative, and academic achievements to his credit, including having been a Professor of Labour Studies at McMaster from 1978 to 1982. Together with Lori Stahlbrand (Local Food Plus) and Rod MacRae he co-wrote the inspirtational and insightful "Real Food For A Change" (1999), which promotes a food system based on the four ingredients of health, joy, justice and nature. His most recent book, "The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food" will be available for purchase at our event..

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Sponsored by: Slow Food Hamilton, Hamilton Eat Local, The Sky Dragon Community Development Cooperative, OPIRG McMaster, The Eklectic Kitchen, and RevWear.