UConn Reads and the College of Agriculture,
Health and Natural Resources announce
Alternative visions for the future of food: Lusk vs. Pollan
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Student Union Theater – Free Admission
7:00 pm
Jayson Lusk is a professor and the Willard Sparks Endowed Chair in the agricultural economics department at Oklahoma State University. In the past ten years, Lusk has published more than one hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals on topics related to consumer behavior, as well as food marketing and policy.
Following many years of studying food regulation at Oklahoma State University and comparing costs and benefits of policies in question, Lusk grew disenfranchised with a movement that he feels ignores the realities facing most American consumers and farmers. Lusk argues that the “food elite” in America have made food more expensive (putting the less fortunate at a disadvantage), and prevented us from taking full advantage of emerging technologies in the food industry. His book The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto about the Politics of Your Plate is a critical account of food and agriculture economics.
For more information, contact: Kathy McDermott at 860-486-0631