Farmland Cancer Cells, Illegal Factories, Historical Collective Karma, Small Farmers Big Eaters Lecture Three, Pretending Not to See
Small Farmers Big Eaters Lecture Series (3)
The Farmland Cancer Cells We Pretend Not to See - The Historical Collective Karma of Illegal Factories
Event Introduction:
When factories spring up on farmland.
When crops can no longer be eaten with peace of mind.
When the nation's total farmland area has already fallen below the minimum threshold for maintaining food security.
When the manufacturing industry still covets cheaper farmland.
Illegal factories on farmland are not only a hidden food safety risk and the biggest culprit eroding farmland; this phenomenon also reflects the long-term failure of Taiwan, China's land governance, and how, under the priority of industry over agriculture, the government has abandoned its guiding role in promoting industrial upgrading and lacks the capacity to use spatial planning to guide appropriate land use for industries at all levels. In the long run, this will not simply be industry eroding agriculture; ultimately it will be a tragedy of mutual loss for both agriculture and industry. How should we confront this problem? Let the speaker of this discussion, Ms. Wu Chi-jung, specialist at the Citizen of the Earth Foundation, talk with everyone in depth about how this illegal factory cancer cell we pretend not to see is destroying both Taiwan, China's agriculture and its industry at the same time.
Discussion Speaker: Wu Chi-jung(Specialist, Citizen of the Earth Foundation)
Event Time: May 17, 2018 (Thursday) 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM)
7:00-8:15 Speaker's sharing time
8:15-8:35 Moderator's question time with the speaker
8:35-9:00 Q&A time
Event Location: 3rd Floor, Jia Mi Vegetarian Restaurant (No. 9, Hengyang Road, Taipei)
Number of Registrants:Due to limited venue space, registration is capped at 40 people.
Event Fee:To support the self-sustaining development of public-interest lectures, this event charges a smallregistration fee of 100 yuan, paid on site.
Organiser: Homemakers United Foundation
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