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Food, Inc. Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser in Conversation

A Visions and Voices Signature Event

Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click here beginning Thursday, January 13, at 9 a.m.

Reception to follow.

Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, best-selling authors of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Fast Food Nation, respectively, are two of the country’s leading voices on issues of food, the food industry and sustainability. Their groundbreaking work has started a revolution in how Americans think about what they eat. Both Pollan and Schlosser appeared in the Academy Award–nominated documentary Food, Inc., which Schlosser co-produced. Join us as they come together for an important and fascinating conversation about the industrialization of food and its devastating impact on personal health and the environment. The event will be moderated by Barry Glassner, professor of sociology at USC and author of The Gospel of Food.

For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs and architecture. He is the author of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, winner of the James Beard Award, and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which was named one of the ten best books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post. In 2009 he was named one of the top ten “New Thought Leaders” by Newsweek magazine.

As an investigative journalist, Eric Schlosser explores subjects ignored by the mainstream media and gives a voice to people at the margins. Over the years he has followed the harvest with migrant farm workers in California; spent time with meatpacking workers in Texas and Colorado; told the stories of marijuana growers, pornographers and victims of violent crime; gone on duty with the New York Police Department’s bomb squad; and visited prisons throughout the United States. Schlosser’s first book, Fast Food Nation, has been translated into more than twenty languages and remained on the New York Times best-seller list for two years. Schlosser has also worked in the film industry, serving as co-producer of the award-winning documentary Food, Inc., in which both he and Pollan appear.

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) -

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski