Eric Schlosser, Vandana Shiva, Michael Pollan, Carlo Petrini and Wendell Berry
Fast Food World was organized by Orville Schell, Dean of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, and professor of journalism Michael Pollan. They had invited an international panel.
The goal of Fast Food World was to examine the economic, social and health aspects of worldwide food production and the role of food industries in promoting or destroying human welfare.
The first speaker is Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, followed by Vandana Shiva from India, activist and author of Monocultures of the Mind and Biopiracy. Also present and participating in the discussion, whether it is even still possible to feed the huge world population with healthy food are: Wendell Berry from Kentucky, farmer and poet – and author of The Unsettling of America, and Carlo Petrini from Italy, President and Founder of Slow Food International.
Fast Food World took place on November 24, 2003.
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