Jan 25 CAGJ Reading: Appetite for Profit - How the Food Industry Undermines our Health and How to Fight Back, by Michele Simon

[Heather Day]

Wed Jan 25, 6:30 - 8:30: CAGJ Book Group 
Reading: Appetite for Profit - How the Food Industry Undermines our Health and How to Fight Back, by Michele Simon
Location: Salvadorean Bakery, 1719 SW Roxbury St, Seattle, WA 98106. 

Order the book here from Powells - $7.95.  

PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU ARE COMING! (RSVP appreciated, not required), email book...@seattleglobaljustice.org. 

& PLEASE FEEL FREE TO JOIN THE DISCUSSION EVEN IF YOU HAVE ONLY READ PART OF THE BOOK!

This month’s book group will be facilitated by John Fawcett-Long, NW FARM BILL ACTION GROUP Steering Committee Member: A few years ago a small group of us associated with the Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network (WSFFN) started to study the presence and impact of corporate agribusiness in Washington state.  Al Krebs, now deceased and author of The Corporate Reapers, worked with us.  I would like to re-start that effort so that at a minimum we can report on what's going on in Washington and monitor these corporations.  

About the book: (http://www.appetiteforprofit.com/):The United States is currently embroiled in a national debate over the growing public health crisis caused by poor diet. Many people are starting to ask who is to blame and how can we fix the problem, especially among children? The major food companies are responding with a massive public relations campaign. These companies, including McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Kraft, and General Mills are increasingly on the defensive. In response, they are pretending to sell healthier food and otherwise position themselves as “part of the solution.” All the while, they continue to lobby against commonsense nutrition policies.This book explains how to fight back by offering reliable resources. Readers will learn how to spot the PR, how to not be fooled, and how to organize, for example, to improve school food. Appetite for Profit, for the first time: Explains why we cannot not trust food corporations to “do the right thing”.

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Heather Day, Director

Community Alliance for Global Justice

www.seattleglobaljustice.org

206-724-2243