[asia-apec 1395] GE Foods Lecture/SF Public Library/Peter Rosset

[Anuradha Mittal]

San Francisco Public Library Presents:

Earth Day Lecture Series: Peter Rosset and Mark Lipson on:

Food Fight!

Genetically Modified vs Conventional vs Organic

Tuesday, February 15, 2000 at 6:00 p.m

Does the Cartagena agreement achieved in Montreal last weekend mean 
we've addressed the genetically modified foods issue at last? Hardly. 
The fight has only begun. Come hear what's left to understand and to do.

On Tuesday, February 15, 2000 at 6:00 p.m. the Wallace Stegner 
Environmental Center at the San Francisco Main Library, the Bay Area 
Earth Day 2000 Coalition, Stacey's Bookstore and Clover-Stornetta Dairy 
will host the fourth in a six-part series of environmental lectures in 
celebration of Earth Day 2000.

To be held in the Main Library's Koret Auditorium at the Civic Center, 
this free public lecture will focus on the issues and debate currently
surrounding genetically modified foods.  What are the implications when 
bioengineers transfer genetic codes from unrelated plans and animals 
into certain other plants such as corn and soybeans to "improve" them? A 
worldwide controversy has erupted. Featuring Peter Rosset, Executive 
Director of Food First/ The Institute for Food and Development Policy 
and Mark Lipson, Policy Program Director for the Organic Farming 
Research Foundation, this lecture will examine a range of food safety 
issues including whether or not genetic engineering can best meet our 
future food needs.  If you would like more information on this lecture, 
please contact Eunice Groark at 415-437-4852.

Free hors d'ouevres reception 5-6pm in Latino/Hispanic Community Room 
(A) across the hall from Koret Auditorium. Provided by Millennium 
Restaurant. Please join us.

Join the fight against hunger. For more information contact foodfirst at foodfirst.org.

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