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SUMMARY:Food for Thought:  Appetite for Profit - SF
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE: Please visit Bay Area Vegetarians event calendar for more information or updates on this and other vegetarian and animal rights events.=0D=0A=0D=0Ahttp://www.bayareaveg.org/events.php#1381 =0D=0A=0D=0AHost: Tammy=0D=0A=0D=0ANotes:=0D=0A=0D=0AThis meeting / book discussion is full.  Please RSVP for the March meeting.=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0ABay Area Vegetarians has two book clubs; "The Vegan Book Club" reading fiction books, and this one, "Food For Thought Book Club", reading nonfiction books on the topics of vegetarianism, animal rights, and nutrition. While our sister book club, the Vegan Book Club may be full, we, The Food for Thought Book Club, welcome new members to join us.   As a general guideline, everyone is welcome to join us (both veg & non-veg), and we especially encouraging aspiring and new veg*ns to join us. =0D=0A=0D=0AWe are a supportive, low-key, and friendly group.  Our most recent meeting in November had 11 people in attendance.   Please note, in consideration of others, including our animal friends, all food and drink consumed during book discussions are vegan.  =0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0AThis month's selection Appetite for Profit : How the food industry undermines our health and how to fight back by Michele Simon=0D=0A=0D=0AFrom Amazon:  "Simon, a health policy expert and law professor, skewers the food industry for undermining the health of Americans with "nutrient deficient factory made pseudofoods." In lawyerly fashion, she explains the ABCs of the business imperative of "Big Food" (Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods and McDonald's, among many others): make short-term profit without regard to the product's nutritional value or societal effects. Permissible tactics, she says, include false advertising, sham "healthy" food initiatives and co-opting the government, press and academia. Simon also argues that food-industry advocates use front groups to attack critics and spread misinformation about nutritional needs. Simon also chastises her fellow food activists for applauding all "steps in the right direction," no matter how inadequate; the press for its passive publication of scientifically dubious industry statements; and the government for abandoning effective regulation of the food industry. Her case made, Simon offers a host of suggestions and a manual-like set of directions to parents and other food activists on how to work with legislatures, school boards and the media to create a "just food system" that is "sustainable, affordable, accessible, and convenient." =0D=0A=0D=0AGet the book:  Suggestions from book club members:  =0D=0A=0D=0A1) Support your local library and look for it there.  Having these books in circulation shows the demand for these types of books in your library system.=0D=0A=0D=0A2) Google has this book's text online - click HERE =0D=0A=0D=0A3) Amazon has been under protest at various time by animal rights organizations for selling foie gras, dogfighting and cockfighting magazines, etc.=0D=0A=0D=0ALocation:  Golden Era, 572 O'Farrell St (@ Leavenworth), San Francisco =0D=0A=0D=0AUltimate Guide info & reviews=0D=0A=0D=0ATime: Noon=0D=0A=0D=0ARSVP:  If you'd like to just join for this one book discussion, please RSVP by clicking on Tammy's name above.  If you'd like to join the book club and participate in ongoing book discussions, please join our YahooGroups book club list, and self-RSVP by adding your name to the list in our book club database for this book meeting.  Click HERE.  This requires a Yahoo userid.  If you do not have one, please contact Tammy by clicking on her name above.=0D=0A=0D=0AIf you can't make this discussion, but would like to join us for a future book, please stay-tuned for an upcoming announcement to the monthly newsletter or SFBAVEG mailing list.  We also have a separate mailing list just for book club information on yahoogroups (FFTBC).=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0A  =0D=0A=0D=0A    =0D=0A=0D=0A      Subscribe to Food for Thought list=0D=0A=0D=0A    =0D=0A=0D=0A  =0D=0A=0D=0A  =0D=0A=0D=0A    =0D=0A=0D=0A      =0D=0A=0D=0A    =0D=0A=0D=0A    =0D=0A=0D=0A      =0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0A    =0D=0A=0D=0A  =0D=0A=0D=0A  =0D=0A=0D=0A    =0D=0A=0D=0A      Powered by groups.yahoo.com =0D=0A=0D=0A    =0D=0A=0D=0A  =0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0A
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