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Food, Energy, and the Future

Presented by Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy at Vieve Gore Concert Hall - Westminster College

November 10, 2008

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The Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy's Ambassador John Price and Marcia Price World Affairs Lecture Series, in partnership with American Express and Westminster College's Weldon J. Taylor Executive Lecture Series, presents Food, Energy, & The Future by best-selling author, Paul Roberts. How are the world's dramatically rising food costs connected to the global energy crisis? Why are our high-volume factory systems creating new risks for food-borne illnesses? Why is it that our high-yield crops and livestock generate grain, vegetables and meat of declining nutritional quality? Why is it that today nearly one billion people are overweight or obese worldwide, and yet one billion, roughly one in every seven of us, can't get enough to eat? In his most recent book, The End of Food, Paul Roberts explores how the rise of large-scale, hyper-efficient industrialized food production generates more food more cheaply than at any time in history and how this production has reached a point of dangerously diminishing returns. In 2005, Roberts' best-selling book, The End of Oil, was a finalist for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award. He writes as well as lectures frequently on business, economics, politics, and environmental issues and has been published in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Harper s Magazine, and Rolling Stone.

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    Vieve Gore Concert Hall - Westminster College

    1840 South 1300 East
    Salt Lake City, UT 84105

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    November 10, 2008

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