From collective purchasing to food and agriculture education: The Future in a Bowl forum
1. Forum Description:
Starting from the bowl, we see that the food, environment, and next generation so closely tied to our lives are facing ever more severe challenges. Capitalist economic development has indirectly and gradually stripped away our right to choose. How to turn the future around is something we must strive for and think about. The cooperative starts from collective purchasing; a group of mothers and housewives works hard so that more and more people can eat healthy, safe, and locally produced food. But back in schools and surrounding communities, more people do not know or understand the importance of food. How to start from the bowl, help more people understand and value this, and eat toward the vision of sustainable agriculture, is the goal that the Homemakers United Cooperative will work toward in the future.
2. Forum Objectives:
1. To organize the action discourse of the Homemakers United Cooperative, starting from non-GM tofu to launch a dining table revolution, as well as the practices carried out by members.
2. To connect with external experience and jointly think about and learn from the future action development and possibilities of the Homemakers United Cooperative in food and agriculture education.
3. To empower each branch and regional cadre to think about how to use stations (or regional groups) as bases to exchange and promote food and agriculture education with schools and communities.
3. Organizer: Taiwan Homemakers United Foundation Cooperative
4. Co-organizers: Homemakers United Foundation Environmental Protection Foundation, Green Citizens' Action Alliance, Seed Laboratory of the Department of Agronomy at National Taiwan University
5. Event Time: October 30, 2013 (Wed) 09:00-17:00
6. Event Venue: Cardinal Tien Cultural Center Grand Auditorium (No. 22, Sec. 1, Xinhai Rd., Taipei City; opposite Exit 1 of MRT Taipower Building Station)
7. Number of Participants: 180 people
8. Target Participants: Candidates for the 5th member representatives of the Homemakers United Cooperative, regional operations cadres, staff, members, friendly organizations, and the general public
9. Event Schedule:
| Time | Topic | Program | Speaker |
| 08:50~09:10 | Registration | ||
| 09:10~09:20 | Opening | Opening remarks and introduction of guests | Liu Jiefeng (Cooperative board member) |
| 09:20~10:30 | Internal ActionsModerator: Huang Shude
| The small revolution of a piece of non-GM tofu | Zhang Yayun (Cooperative Planning Department) |
| Lobbying and action against the use of GM foods in school lunches | Zhang Mingli (Qidu team leader, Cooperative) | ||
| The communal eating efforts at Renmei Waldorf | Chen Qianyu, Chen Changjun (Zhongli members, Cooperative) | ||
| 10:30~10:40 | Break | ||
| 10:40~12:10 | External ExperienceModerator: Wu Dongjie | The 2013 Anti-GM Big Push | Chen Manli (Chairperson of the Homemakers United Foundation) |
| The power of transformation seen in a school lunch survey | Wang Wenhao (reporter for NewsMarket) | ||
| On the reform of school lunches | Wu You (Principal of Puhe Elementary School, Xinfeng Township, Hsinchu County) | ||
| 12:10~12:30 | General discussion | All morning speakers | |
| 12:30~13:30 | Bean Communal Meal Gathering | Food-grade non-GM bean cuisine sharing session; entering communities to promote anti-GM (action drama) | Anti-GM Action Team |
| 13:30~16:00 | Food and Agriculture Co-learningModerator: Guo Huaren
| Food and agriculture education starts from childhood | Chen Huiwen (Head of Xingfu Farm) |
| Restoring cultivation of local coarse grains X Our Grain Academy | Shi Minghuang (Head of Xiyuan Bakery) | ||
| A food and agriculture education experiment centered on a university campus and expanding outward | Song Bingming (Professor at National Dong Hwa University) | ||
| 16:00~16:10 | Afternoon tea break | ||
| 16:10~16:45 | ConclusionModerator: Liu Jiefeng | General discussion | All afternoon speakers |
| 16:50~ | Closing |
10. Registration Methods:
1. Online registration http://goo.gl/yUgn1H
2. Return the registration form to [email protected] to register
3. Or fax the registration form to 02-2995-6500
If you have any questions, please call 02-2999-6122#518 Li Jianwei
11. Transportation:
[MRT Route] Opposite Exit 1 of MRT Taipower Building Station.
[Bus Route] "Cardinal Tien Cultural Center Stop": 253, 311, 673
"Guting Elementary School Stop" or "Tri-Service General Hospital Stop": 1, 74, 208, 236, 251, 252, 253, 254, 278, 606, 644, 660, 672
[Parking Lots]
1. Paid parking lot on Roosevelt Road directly opposite the Cardinal Tien Building (30 yuan per hour)
2. Parking lot attached to the Children's Traffic Museum at the corner of Tingzhou Road and Shida Road
3. Paid parking lot under the Xinhai Road elevated bridge 4. Tri-Service General Hospital parking lot on Tingzhou Road