Growing Power: Whose Food?

From pesticides to patented seeds, the global food system is dominated by corporate interests creating huge profits for a handful of corporations at the expense of our health and our environment.

With free food, films and speakers, this event explores the role of corporations in shaping our food system, and how just a handful control every aspect of what we eat.

Join us to discuss how this generates huge social and environmental problems, and how people are fighting to take back control of their food and their communities.

We will explore two particular areas around the deeper theme of the role of corporations in our food system: food waste and pesticide use. On food waste, we will hear from Stop the Rot campaign and FoodCycle about how this area of growing concern may be confronted, as more and more supermarkets agree to not just throw away their unsold food.

On pesticides, following the WHO announcement that glyphosate, the main ingredient of RoundUp, ‘probably causes cancer’, the EU is currently legislating on its continued use. We will hear from Global Justice Now and Bristol Pesticide Alliance about this issue, and the corporations involved.

We are delighted to be working with FoodCycle, who will provide hot food for donation, using food that would otherwise have been wasted.

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