US Food Policy: Feeding or Exploiting the World's Hungry?

Debi Barker and Anna Blackshaw, respective specialists on US international trade policies and their impact on California, will speak about upcoming State Senate hearings pertaining to genetically-modified organisms, and their implications for California and the world. What's in store for food, social justice and the environment? Join us for this timely talk in advance of the US-led ministerial conference in Sacramento, where our federal government will be promoting agricultural technologies to developing nations. Debi Barker is Executive Director of the International Forum on Globalization. Anna Blackshaw is a consultant to the Senate Select Committee on International Trade Policy and State Legislation. First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco. 1187 Franklin St (at Geary). Coffee and snacks, 9:30AM. Program begins at 10:00AM. Free of charge.