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Hunger Week's Food for Thought: Feeding10Billion

Curious about how we will be able to feed the exponentially growing world population? You won’t want to miss the 2^nd event of SCU’s Hunger Week then. As part of the “Food for Thought” lecture series, Paul Matteucci from Feeding10Billion will be speaking about his project. His project looks into finding solutions for this concern; not to mention many of his innovative ideas are currently used by several food systems entrepreneurs.

When?

Tuesday May 21^st at 7:00pm

Where?

Lucas Hall, Rm. 106

Why?

This talk will provide fascinating ideas and insights into one of the world’s largest concerns.

It is also a way to get involved with SCU’s newest club BTGAP, Bridging the Gap to Alleviating Poverty. The club has a lot of opportunities available for its members, so get involved now!

We hope to see you there! This is sure to be an inspiring talk that you won’t want to miss, as well as an opportunity to get involved on campus in SCU’s newest club BTGAP! Make sure to spread the word about Hunger Week by adding #scuhungerweek2013 to your Instagrams/Twitter/Facebook images of the events!

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Food for Thought: Building a Sustainable Food System

Wednesday, October 26
Benson California Mission Room
12PM

In conjunction with California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF), the Food and Agribusiness Insistute is pleased to present our first Food for Thought speaker panel of the school year. Topics include the history of the organics movement, the “Dirty Dozen” campaign targeting the top 12 worst pesticides used in agriculture, and different strategies to build and maintain sustainable food systems.

The speaker panel will be feature:
Bob Scowcroft- founder of the Organic Farming Research Foundation
Monica Moore- founder of Pesticide Action Network

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To Label or Not to Label GE Foods: Proposition 37

To Label or Not to Label GE Foods: Proposition 37

Monday, October 29th
Presentation: 5PM
Location: Williman Room, Benson Memorial Center
Cost: FREE!

Join FAI in welcoming Professor David Zilberman. Dr. Zilberman is an expert in the field of genetically engineered foods and a professor at UC Berkeley in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department.

Register online at: http://gefoods.eventbrite.com

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Soda's Demise: The Sweetened Beverage Tax

Soda's Demise: The Sweetened Beverage Tax
Monday, October 22nd
Presentation: 5PM
Location: Lucas Hall, Rm. 126 (Forbes Conference Room)
Cost: FREE!

Join FAI in welcoming Councilman Dr. Jeff Ritterman. Dr. Ritterman is a retired cardiologist who introduced a ballot initiative to add a one cent tax per ounce to sweetened beverages in Richmond, CA.

The tax profits will be used to fund programs to curb obesity, especially in children. The ballot initiative will be voted on by Richmond residents in the November election.

Dr. Ritterman will discuss the importance of curbing childhood obesity in America and how his taxing sweetened beverages will help.

To register, visit http://sodatax.eventbrite.com\

Click here to watch a video on the Food for Though speaker series!

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