Food Sleuth and Food Day Celebration, October 23-2
The Carnegie Mellon Environment at CMU collective will be celebrating sustainability on our campus with a few events on October 23- 24. We invite you to join us!
Campus Sustainability and Food Day Celebration, October 23-24
Carnegie Mellon University will celebrate campus sustainability and the movement towards “more healthy, affordable and sustainable food” with events on October 23 and 24. The full lineup of events can be found at Environment at CMU.
The day will culminate with a talk by “Food Sleuth”, Melinda Hemmelgarn, M.S., R.D entitled “F.A.R.M.: Food, Art, Revolution, Media: Changing the Way We Think to Change the Way We Eat.” .
“Food Day”, created by CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest), is powered by a diverse coalition of food movement leaders, organizations and people from all walks of life. Food Day takes place annually on October 24 to address issues as varied as health and nutrition, hunger, agricultural policy, animal welfare and farm worker justice.
October 24 is also the 10th annual celebration of Campus Sustainability Day, an event created to focus on campus sustainability accomplishments and to create momentum for future efforts towards greening college and University campuses.
Wednesday, October 24, 6:00-7:00pm
Campus Sustainability/Food Day Keynote to be held in the University Center, Rangos 1,2,3. Sustainable Earth, Eco-Reps, Peer Health Advocates and the CMU community garden, with support from University Health Services, University Dining Services, the Steinbrenner Institute and Green Practices, and our community partners including Chatham University, Masters of Food Studies Program and the East End Food Co-Op are proud to present: Melinda Hemmelgarn, M.S., R.D., “F.A.R.M.: Food, Art, Revolution, Media: Changing the Way We Think to Change the Way We Eat. Exploring the power of images and stories to transform and support healthy food, farmers and communities.”
Media “diets” feed us illusions of “natural,” green,” “sustainable,” and “good” food choices. Yet if our future depends on how we feed ourselves, then we need a set of “media literacy” or critical thinking skills, to navigate and analyze food and agriculture public relations spin and propaganda. Melinda will define “good” food, connect the dots between food, health, agriculture and our environment, and identify the critical questions we need to become “food system literate.” She’ll expose green-washing, reveal the unintended consequences of our food and farming decisions, and explore ways to find and disseminate “food truth” and “think beyond our plates” .
Erika L. Ninos, Environmental Program Coordinator
Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education & Research
http://www.cmu.edu/environment
Educating at the Interface: NEEP
http://www.ices.cmu.edu/neep/
Carnegie Mellon University
Hamburg Hall 1209
412.268.2754
elninos@andrew.cmu.edu
Tags: Food Day Celebration, Food Sleuth
