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Your Food, Your Choice: The Value of Organic

Saturday, February 18, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (ET)

Toronto, Ontario

Your Food, Your Choice: The Value of Organic

Ticket Information

Ticket Type	Sales End	Price	Fee	Quantity
Regular early bird (after Feb. 10 - $85)	Ended	CA$65.00	CA$2.62
Regular early bird + Ticket to Seeds (after Feb. 10 - $91)	Ended	CA$71.00	CA$2.77
COG member early bird (after Feb. 10 - $65)	Ended	CA$55.00	CA$2.37
COG member early bird + Ticket to Seeds (after Feb. 10 - $71)	Ended	CA$61.00	CA$2.52
Regular	Ended	CA$85.00	CA$3.12
Regular + Ticket to Seeds	Ended	CA$91.00	CA$3.27
COG member	Ended	CA$65.00	CA$2.62
COG member + Ticket to Seeds	Ended	CA$71.00	CA$2.77

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Rates for students, seniors and unwaged or for offline payments, call 416-466-4420.

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If you value your food, you won't want to miss this conference. Why do organic strawberries cost so much? What is the difference between conventional and organic pricing? Will boycotts change the agricultural system? Can organic food be part of the solution to cancer? Are there organic fish? Hear these panels and the story of how one 30 something writer from NY City lived her own story and became a farmer. Join us for practical answers to serious questions that won’t be green washed. It’s not about the money; it’s about your health and the future.

Topics include: Is Organic Too Extreme? There's Something Fishy Here, - GE Salmon, Reducing Risk, Doctors against GMOs, Our Organic Neighbors, Is Organic for Everyone, Too Big to Change, Growing Desserts, Teachers Unite, The Creative Farmer and more.

As long as the focus on maximum production trumps concerns of maximum health in the way we produce our food, our health and environment will continue to suffer. Taking back responsibility for the quality of our food and our food system is under way. Every day, consumers are educating themselves and making better choices, supporting better ways of growing and doing business. The more they learn, the more committed they have become to buying quality food that nourishes the body as well as the soul.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Kristin Kimball has written an exceptional memoir The Dirty Life recounting her journey from high-heeled urbanite to hoe wielding farmer. Her message that "farming is beautiful and brutal, romantic and hard, all at once" rings loud and clear as she discovers the satisfaction in the work that to her was "something no less profound than the secret to happiness". Hers is a story of life, love and ambivalence, and ultimately raises questions that concern us all about our food system today. With her husband, Mark, Kristin runs a unique full service, free choice, horse powered CSA, Essex Farm, which produces a full year-round diet for its 150 local members.

See past conferences: http://cogtoronto.org/COG_Toronto/Past_Conferences/Past_Conferences.html

ADDED FEATURE:

With a purchase of a conference ticket, you also have the opportunity to purchase a ticket to the previewing of a new play, Seeds, about the legal battle between Percy Schmeiser and Monsanto based on court trial transcripts, interviews and media material. Produced by Crow's Theatre and starring Eric Peterson, this play is sure to be engaging and thought provoking. Saturday, February 18, 8 pm, Young Centre for the Performing Arts, Distillery District, 55 Mill St., Toronto. If you would like to bring a guest with you to the play, please call 416-466-4420 to order extra tickets.

More info: http://www.crowstheatre.com/production/current-plays/seeds-2/

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