Good Food, Bad Food: Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Oregon boasts a multibillion-dollar agricultural economy that includes both industrial agriculture and small-scale efforts such as community supported agriculture memberships, farmers’ markets, and community gardens. These smaller, community-based efforts are on the rise as means to nurture community and create local and autonomous food systems. In this conversation, author Kristy Athens will ask participants to think about the impact of their food choices. Are these choices as consequential as consumers would like them to be? Does “voting with your dollars” significantly shape our agricultural systems?
Kristy Athens has an MS in food systems and society from Marylhurst University (2015) and is the author of Get Your Pitchfork On!: The Real Dirt on Country Living. Her food systems work includes presenting at conferences at Chatham and Yale universities, a TEDx Talk, and a chapter in the anthologyFood Justice in US and Global Contexts. She lives in Wallowa County, where she works at the NE Oregon Economic Development District as outreach specialist and serves on the board of the Wallowa County Farmers’ Market.
Date and Time
Tuesday Oct 25, 2016
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
October 25
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location
Harney County Community Center
At the Chamber of Commerce
Fees/Admission
FREE
Including light refreshments
Contact Information
Chelsea 541.573.2636
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