[Sci-tech-public] TUESDAY: Jose Bove

[Margo Collett]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presents

José Bové


"New Forms of Peasant Struggles Inspired by Civil Disobedience"


French farmer and activist José Bové is best known for his efforts to 
disrupt the trend toward globalized food production and in particular, 
genetically modified crops. With supporters, he dismantled a McDonald's in 
Millau, France just days before it was to open in 1999, he destroyed 
genetically-modified maize developed by Novartis, and he broke into a 
research laboratory and destroyed a transgenic rice experiment. He has 
served jail time for some of these attacks, and remains in legal trouble. 
But his campaign against hormone-treated beef, genetically-modified crops, 
the impact of faraway corporations on local habits, and the homogenization 
of food and eating, has stuck a chord with many around the world. Bové is 
co-organizer, with François Dufour, of the radical international farmer's 
union Confederation Paysanne, and is co-author, with Dufour, of The World 
is Not for Sale.


Tuesday, March 8, 2005
7 p.m.

Building 6 Room 120


This event is co-sponsored by "Modern Times, Rural Places," the Program in 
Science, Technology and Society, the MIT-France program, the Department of 
Urban Studies, the Kelly-Douglas Fund, and the MIT Free Radicals, all of MIT.
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