Edible Action: Food Activism and Alternative Economics

Lunch Talk with Sally Miller '84, Anthropology

Date: Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
Time: 11:45 a.m.
Place: Mathey College Private Dining Room

Come when you can, leave when you must.

Meet Princeton anthropology alumna Sally Miller and learn about food activism — how food movements and enterprises are dedicated to making the world a better place to eat and to live. In the process, find out what you can do with an anthropology degree from Princeton, and how anthropological methods can translate into practical job skills and interesting work in management, consulting, research, and writing.

Hunger is up, obesity is up, food-borne illness is up, farms are lost to debt and despair; the food system fails growing numbers of people across the world every day. Yet if we adjust our lens, we see ubiquitous commitments to change... food initiatives — from farmers' markets to fair trade coffee — offer a pattern of powerful alternatives to conventional food economics, which benefit only a handful of people and corporations. Sally Miller's book, Edible Action, argues that food is peculiarly situated to mobilize people against the ills of an unjust economic system.

Sally Miller has worked for almost twenty years in the alternative food, agriculture and co-op sectors, as a manager, consultant, organizer and researcher. She has degrees in anthropology and environmental studies. She taught anthropology, writing, and environmental sociology and designed and implemented curriculum, workshops, and materials for non-profits and co-ops in the U.S. and in Canada. She recently helped to found the Fourth Pig Worker Co-op, dedicated to natural and sustainable building and energy use.

If you can't make the lunch, attend the talk on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM at Labyrinth Books, Princeton.