The School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Toronto Presents
Posted: March 24, 2009
Categories: Events
Ontario’s Test Kitchens: Cooking up a Sustainable Food System for the 21st Century
April 19-20, 2009
Over the past few years, readers of the popular press have been inundated with bad news about our food system. Books by Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma), Taras Grescoe (Bottomfeeder), and Raj Patel (Stuffed and Starved), among many others, have warned us about the unsustainable nature of the way we grow and eat food. We have heard much about environmental degradation, health crises, and inhumane animal-raising practices. The silver lining to this cloud of crisis-reporting has been a groundswell of local, independent initiatives which have begun to address these problems in a multitude of creative ways. Ontario’s Test Kitchens will highlight some of the most impressive innovations in the way food is grown, distributed, processed, cooked, eaten, and disposed of in Ontario by bringing together practitioners, scholars, and policy-makers in a dynamic conversation about how to turn this productive energy into a more sustainable, just and humane food system for our community.
The conference will be held during Earth Week, and is coordinated with the grand opening of The Stop’s Green Barn at the Wychwood Barns, the site of one of the most exciting food-related projects launched in Toronto in the past year. Events will take place at the Artscape Wychwood Barns and at Hart House on the University of Toronto campus, another important site for food system innovation.
http://www.publicpolicy.utoronto.ca/calendar/eventdisplay.php?id=193