SFVS event:
Spring Potluck & Free Lecture by Christopher Cook, Author & Award
Winning Investigative Journalist
Saturday, March 12: Socializing & Appetizers at 6:00 p.m.; Dining at 6:30 p.m.; Lecture at 8:00 p.m.
Location: IOA, 3600 Geary Boulevard (click on link for direction details).
$1 suggested donation for members, their guests, and students bringing food, $2 for non-members bringing food (add $8 to each category without food).
Following the potluck, there will be a lecture on “Diet and a Dead Planet” by the author of the book Diet for a Dead Planet, Christopher Cook. Frances Moore Lappe wrote, “Diet for a Dead Planet provides the big picture, along with fascinating details, to motivate change before it’s too late. Armed with Cook’s compelling expose, we don’t have to be victims. We can choose life.” John Robbins stated, “in this well-searched and hard-hitting book, (Cook) lifts the veil and reveals what you can do to bring food and agriculture back from the brink. This book is a forceful reminder that food should be-and-can be-a way of life, not a way of death, for communities, our bodies, and the planet.”
Christopher Cook is an award-winning journalist. He has written extensively on labor, welfare, agribusiness and other issues for outlets such as Harper’s Magazine, The Economist, Mother Jones, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Nation. His 1998 report on welfare programs sending recipients into dangerous meatpacking plants won an Aronson Award. Other honors include a 2001 Project Censored Award, finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, and two-time finalist for the Livingston Award. He has also worked as a reporter for The Oakland Tribune and United Press International. |
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