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Our Daily Poison, From Pesticides to Packaging: How Chemicals have Contaminated the Food Chain and are Making us Sick

a talk by Marie-Monique Robin

Monday April 13th, 2015

2pm, 404 Grinter Hall

Marie-Monique Robin is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. She received the 1995 Albert-Londres Prize, awarded to investigative journalists in France. She is the director and producer of more than thirty documentaries and investigative reports filmed in Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Robin is the author of The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of Our Food Supply (The New Press), Our Daily Poison: From Pesticides to Packaging, How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain and Are Making Us Sick (The New Press) and The Photos of the Century: 100 Historic Moments (Taschen), among other works. More recently she published Les Moissons du futur (La découverte, 2012) and Sacrée Croissance (La découverte, 2014)

Informal Lunch Meeting with the Author
Monday April 13th , 11:30-12:30 in 376 Grinter Hall
Sponsored by the TCD and MDP Programs (Centers for Latin American Studies and African Studies)
If planning to attend the lunch meeting, RSVP by April 12, Renata Serra (rserra@ufl.edu)