Between Currywurst and Tofu: How Good Food Makes a Difference

Tanja Busse, freelance journalist for Die Zeit and Germany’s Greenpeace magazine
Mark Winne, food activist and former executive director of the Hartford Food System from 1979 to 2003
Moderated by Erik Assadourian, Senior Fellow, Transforming Cultures Project; Director, Worldwatch Institute
 
Is what we eat still something we decide ourselves? Does the food industry control what will end up on our plates and what we are allowed to know about our food? This session examines some of the food industry’s promises, what a balanced and sustainable diet looks like, and ways for consumers to keep having the last word about food.
 
Tanja Busse is the author of the German non-fiction bestseller Die Einkaufsrevolution (2006), dealing with political consumerism, along with other publications dealing with agriculture and scandals in the food industry. 
  
Mark Winne’s latest book, Food Rebels, Guerilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin’ Mamas: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture and Closing the Food Gap, challenges us to go beyond eating local food to become part of a larger solution that demands a system that sustains not just our bodies, but also our souls. 
 
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For questions, please contact Milena Jurca at milena@boell.org
 
In cooperation with the Goethe Institut Washington, DC.