Presenter: Tristan Pettigrew
Mentor: Gyoung-Ah Lee
AM Session Oral Presentation
Panel Name: M3 The Grip of Money and Food
Location: Maple Room
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
What does a future of food security and seed sovereignty look like? Or, more importantly, how is it represented today within the borders of the United States? Since its inception, methods of agriculture have under gone many changes; however, two events in our recent history, the Industrial Revolution and the Green Revolution, have changed both the scale and effect of agriculture in unprecedented ways. Both have increased our dependence upon fossil energy as a driver for the production, transportation, and storage of our caloric necessity. Throughout this project I hope to highlight areas within the U.S. food system of unsustainable practices. More- over, I hope to offer possible solutions to our current situation.