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Nanotechnology in Food and Agriculture
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Public presentation by Georgia Miller. Hosted presented by Reclaim the Food Chain, the sustainable food campaign of Friends of the Earth Adelaide and The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, UniSA
Monday 5 May 2008, 6.30pm
UniSA City West Campus, Hawke Building, level 5, Bradley Forum
Georgia Miller is co-author of the report ‘Out of the Laboratory and on to our Plates: Nanotechnology in Food and Agriculture’
Get ready for the new high-tech intervention in our food system – after genetic engineering comes nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, the “science of the small”, involves manipulating materials, systems and even living organisms at the scale of atoms and molecules. The co-author of the Report, Georgia Miller, argues that nanotechnology introduces not only serious new risks for human health and the environment, but also threatens to further concentrate corporate control of agriculture and food production. An absence of public debate, governmental inquiry and legislative regulation has enabled nanotechnology to advance from the laboratory and enter the global food chain.
Georgia Miller will provide a brief introduction to nanotechnology. She will then present how nanotechnology is being used in our current food production and what impacts and risks to health, society and environment this poses. She will conclude by throwing open the challenge to the consumer and public. What can be done? Should we say no to nano-foods? Can we say no to nano-foods?
Hawke Centre event Bookings: via the Hawke Centre web site: www.hawkecentre.unisa.edu.au or RSVP line 08 8302 0215
For more information including the full report ‘Out of the Laboratory and on to our Plates: Nanotechnology in Food and Agriculture’ http://www.nano.foe.org.au/
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