Last month on October 9, the Commonwealth Club and Litquake hosted an excellent panel on “The Politics of Food: What We Eat and Why It Matters” that is now available as an audio-only MP3 (on the Web vis RealPlayer) or podcast (on iTunes). The panelists were:
- 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, moderated. I attended; it was a good discussion that I intended to write up but never had time — and now I don’t have to. [Thanks, Jay!]
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November 24th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
I didn’t know that the Commonwealth Club was digitally archiving the audio or supporting a podcast. That’s great news! I just subscribed, and their earlier programs include a few other relevant speakers: Eric Schlosser (5/25), Anthony Bourdain (8/2), Elizabeth Kolbert (5/10, talking about climate change). My “to listen to” list just got a lot longer…
Is it possible to include a hyperlink in a blog that takes a reader to the iTunes subscription page for a podcast? e.g., if I wanted to say “you can subscribe to the Commonwealth Club [here]”.
November 25th, 2006 at 7:07 am
Hi Marc: I believe it is, and here’s the URL to subscribe to the Commonwealth Club’s. If I’ve gotten it wrong — I don’t actually subscribe to any podcasts myself, just download them one at a time when I want them — the Club’s instructions are here.