Events: Food politics forum in SF

Tomorrow night, October 9, the Commonwealth Club and Litquake is hosting what looks like a killer panel on "The Politics of Food: What We Eat and Why It Matters." Check out the lineup:

• Ignacio Chapela, UC Berkeley professor who uncovered GMO contamination in Mexican cornfields (you may remember him from the "Future of Food" documentary)
• Michelle Simon, director of the Center for Informed Food Choices, and author of Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back
• Bryant Terry, food justice activist and coauthor of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen
• Chris Cook, author of Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis

Julie Cummins, director of education for the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture, will moderate. Tickets are $20 for non-members.

I'm going, and I'll probably wear my favorite orange People's Grocery t-shirt that my husband is totally tired of seeing, in case anyone wants to say hi.