TCC Symposium: The Way We Eat
Could the way we produce and consume food be killing us? Tacoma Community College is looking to explore this question and others in its first symposium of 2010. The event includes a screening of the Food, Inc. and the conversation will consider Michael Pollan’s book The Omnivore’s Dilemma. The discussion that follows will be guided by TCC faculty Sue Habeck (Biology) and Scott Cochrane (Philosophy).
The aim of the event is to encourage the civic discourse on complex and controversial topics while learning to gather and use information to pose ethical questions and seek answers. The event is open to the public, but space is limited.
The symposium is sponsored by Tacoma Community College’s Center for Ethical Development, the Pleneurethics Society, Student Activities, and the Arts and Humanities Division.
I hope you can join us.
Details
The Way We Eat: You’ll never look at dinner the same way
Monday, February 1st, 2010 – 11:30 am to 3:00 pm
Tacoma Community College
Opgaard Student Center Cafeteria, Bldg. 11
Full Disclosure: I’m on the Center for Ethical Development Advisory Council.
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10 comments
J Jason January 21, 2010
I just finished my AA at TCC. They serve some of the unhealthiest food I’ve ever seen in the cafeteria, student store, and vending machines. Aside from a bowl of week old “fresh” fruit there was rarely a healthy or vegetarian option. I think this event is a brilliant idea but to imply that TCC is spearheading initiatives for healthy living is misleading.
A Altered Chords January 21, 2010
There seems to be a very small, very interested group of americans interested in things like organic food. A larger group that occasionally reads about healthful eating habits and attempts to adhere to those habbits but…the vast majority of americans eat hydrogenated fat dipped in salt and sugar washed down with budweiser beer.
S Sarah Snow January 21, 2010
Disappointing it’s during the day time- I’d love to participate, but can’t get away from work.
S Squid January 22, 2010
Discussion symposia like this are all well and good. I’m as big a supporter there is of sustainable eating and better tasting food in general. This stuff works better though (not to mention getting people worked up) if the opposing viewpoint is actually represented. Get somebody from the factory slaugherhouse industry to argue their point, which is invariably something along the lines of “we produce calories, cheap, just the way people like them. You can’t feed the world Michael Pollan’s way.”
Let the two sides duke it out – the right answers then become more clear.
To be fair here, Michael Pollan himself also refuses to appear at public forums where industrial agriculture is represented. Both sides have their PR machine at work.
A Anne January 22, 2010
Jason, I’m not sure you read this carefully. It states very clearly that “the aim of the event is to encourage the civic discourse on complex and controversial topics while learning to gather and use information to pose ethical questions and seek answers.”
I’m not sure where they imply TCC will be spearheading initiatives for healthy living.
6 6ther January 22, 2010
The Ominvore’s Dilemma will make you look at corn in a whole new light.
I didn’t know what to eat for about a month after reading that book.
Then I forgot all about it and had a cheeseburger.
S Squid January 22, 2010
6ther: I know how you feel. My anger at how the corn industry has simultaneously degraded both our foods and the environment is almost enough to make me give up corn tortillas.
C Crysta January 23, 2010
The middle of a Monday? Come on!
T Thorax O'Tool January 23, 2010
I actually saw food inc.
I can’t look at McDonalds the same way anymore. They went from bad to worse… almost down with the likes of Walmart and partisan politics.
T TacomaThinker January 25, 2010
hopefully it’s so successful it grows into a re:tacoma lecture
…then all the cubicle creatures can attend