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The Western Knight Center for
Specialized Journalism Presents

Food and the Environment :
The Costs, Benefits, and Consequences of
Modern Food Production

This event was webcast live from the
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
September 22-26, 2002

Archived video can be viewed by
clicking links in the schedule below.

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Webcast Schedule

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Monday, September 23
  8:00 Introduction by Orville Schell
  8:10 - 8:55 A Vision of Food in the 21st Century -- Mary Schmidl
  9:00 - 10:15 Packaging and the Environment (Part 1 | Part 2) - Aaron Brody, Daniel Imhoff
  10:20 - 11:45

Health Foods of the Future -- John Cassens, Janet McDonald

  12:00 - 1:20 Food and the Family : Sheila Cohn, Alice Waters, Gail Feenstra
  1:30 - 2:45 Food Production: From Family Farm to Agribusiness -- David Zilberman, Steven Blank, Tim Egan
  2:50 - 4:00 How Well Does Our Food Safety and Regulation Work? -- Arthur Liang, Caroline Smith DeWaal
  4:10 - 5:30 Health, Nutrition and The Modern Diet -- Marion Nestle, Nancy Hudson
  7:30 - 9:30 Evening Address, Factory Food: Are the Alternatives Viable? -- Alice Waters, Mark Hertsgaard, Corby Kummer, Michael Pollen and Eric Schlosser
     
Tuesday, September 24
  8:00 - 9:00 Organic Food: Niche Market or Future of Agriculture? - R. Ford Denison
  9:15 - 10:15 Not webcasting this segment
  10:30 - 11:45 The Potential and Perils of Bio-Engineered Crops (Part 1 | Part 2) -- Sandy Tolan, Ignacio Chapela, Jeanne Merrill
  12:00 - 1:30 Food Security and the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development - Pedro Sanchez
     
Wednesday, September 25
  8:00 - 9:15 Modern Meat: Beef and Poultry - Bob Fox, Steven, Bjerklie, Doug Hamilton
  9:20 - 10:50 Keeping Meat Safe : Orville Schell, Elsa Murano, Rosemary Mucklow, Steve Grover
  11:00 -12:15 Raising Cattle: Corn versus Grassfed : Michael Pollan, John Maas, Richard Sellers
  1:45 - 3:15 The Impact of Animal Waste and Pesticides on Water Quality -- Jane Kay, Jovita Pajarillo, Johnathan Kaplan
  3:30 - 4:30 Fisheries, Aquaculture and Sustainability -- Burr Heneman
     
Thursday, September 26
  8:30 - 9:50 Food Self-Sufficiency in Developing Nations - Anurahda Mittal, Martina Newell-McGloughlin, Martin J. Fisher
  10:00 - 11:15 Agro-forestry and Farming With the Wild -- Daniel Imhoff, Robert Bugg, and Paul Rogers
  11:25 - 1:00 Writers Workshop - Covering the Food Chain - Richard Manning, Linda Strean, and Steve Bjerklie

 

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