The Food Studies Theme, along with the Common Project on Sustainability and the Making and Breaking the Law Theme, is sponsoring a free showing of the documentary Food Chains on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m. at the Athena Cinema.
A panel discussion follow the film presentation. This event is free and open to the public.
The documentary Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets. Fast food is big, but supermarkets are bigger – earning $4 trillion globally. They have tremendous power over the agricultural system. Over the past three decades they have drained revenue from their supply chain, leaving farmworkers in poverty and forced to work under subhuman conditions. Yet many take no responsibility for this.
The narrative of the film focuses on an intrepid and highly lauded group of tomato pickers from Southern Florida – the Coalition of Immokalee Workers or CIW – who are revolutionizing farm labor. Their story is one of hope and promise for the triumph of morality over corporate greed – to ensure a dignified life for farm workers and a more humane, transparent food chain.
For more information contact foodstudies@ohio.edu or Dr. Theresa Moran at morant@ohio.edu.
Upcoming Food For Thought Speaker Series
March 17, Dr. Stephen Scanlan, Associate Professor of Sociology, on “Eating Away at Austerity: Ireland and the Local Food Movement” at 5 p.m. in Alden 319 (Friends of the Library Room). Sponsored by the Food Studies Theme. Refreshments served to those wearing green!
April 2, Sandor Katz on “The Art of Fermentation.” Katz is the author of New York Times bestseller, Wild Fermentation and the James Beard Award-winner, Art of Fermentation. 5:30pm., Baker Theater. Reception follows. Co-sponsored by the Food Studies Theme, the Department of Biological Sciences and the Food Matters Club.
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