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Nick Svoboda
Mar 19, 2009, 3:54:43 PM3/19/09
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Hamline SPROUT will be hosting a documentary film series in
April. All showings are free and open to the public. The
series is a focus on the food we eat and how it is produced.
Issues surrounding this topic include social and economic justice,
GMOs, globalization, health and environmental concerns, and
sustainability.
The schedule is as follows:
Wednesday April 1st at 6:00pm
Hamline Midway Public Library 1558 West Minnehaha Avenue
KING CORN
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.
In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.
(more info at www.kingcorn.net)
Wednesday April 8th at 6:00pm
Drew Hall of Science room 118 - Hamline University Campus
(downloadable pdf map http://law.hamline.edu/files/Campus_Map.pdf)
HARVEST OF FEAR
In "Harvest of Fear," FRONTLINE and NOVA explore the intensifying debate over genetically-modified (GM) food crops. Interviewing scientists, farmers, biotech and food industry representatives, U.S. regulators, and critics of biotechnology, this two-hour report presents both sides of the debate--exploring the risks and benefits, the hopes and fears, of this new technology.
(more info at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest)
Wednesday April 15th at 6:00pm
Hamline Midway Public Library 1558 West Minnehaha Avenue
WE FEED THE WORLD
We Feed The World is a film about food and globalisation, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash flow–a film about scarcity amid plenty. With its unforgettable images, the film provides insight into the production of our food and answers the question what world hunger has to do with us.
(more info at www.we-feed-the-world.at/en/film.htm)
Who is SPROUT? We are a group of community minded students promoting environmental justice by growing local food and practicing sustainable land stewardship. For more information check us out at http://groups.google.com/group/hamlinesprout?lnk=srg
We hope to see you in April!
The schedule is as follows:
Wednesday April 1st at 6:00pm
Hamline Midway Public Library 1558 West Minnehaha Avenue
KING CORN
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.
In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.
(more info at www.kingcorn.net)
Wednesday April 8th at 6:00pm
Drew Hall of Science room 118 - Hamline University Campus
(downloadable pdf map http://law.hamline.edu/files/Campus_Map.pdf)
HARVEST OF FEAR
In "Harvest of Fear," FRONTLINE and NOVA explore the intensifying debate over genetically-modified (GM) food crops. Interviewing scientists, farmers, biotech and food industry representatives, U.S. regulators, and critics of biotechnology, this two-hour report presents both sides of the debate--exploring the risks and benefits, the hopes and fears, of this new technology.
(more info at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest)
Wednesday April 15th at 6:00pm
Hamline Midway Public Library 1558 West Minnehaha Avenue
WE FEED THE WORLD
We Feed The World is a film about food and globalisation, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash flow–a film about scarcity amid plenty. With its unforgettable images, the film provides insight into the production of our food and answers the question what world hunger has to do with us.
(more info at www.we-feed-the-world.at/en/film.htm)
Who is SPROUT? We are a group of community minded students promoting environmental justice by growing local food and practicing sustainable land stewardship. For more information check us out at http://groups.google.com/group/hamlinesprout?lnk=srg
We hope to see you in April!
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