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Minnesota Protest against Irradiated Meat


When

June 8, 2000, 12 noon

Where

Lunds Food Store at 1450 West Lake Street in Uptown Minneapolis, Minnesota

Speakers

  • Dr. Samuel Epstein, MD, Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, and national authority on genetically engineered and artificially altered foods
  • Julie Jansen, anti-factory feedlot activist and former lieutenant-governor candidate
  • Don Pylkkanen, Minnesota COACT
  • Wenonah Hauter of Public Citizen's Critical Mass Environment and Energy Program's Campaign to Stop Food Irradiation
  • Steve McCargar, Oneota Food Co-op, Iowa
  • Laura Bihl, certified organic beef producer from Clearwater, Minnesota.

Sponsors

The protest is being sponsored by Minneapolis Safe Food Link, a coalition of the Organic Consumers Association (www.purefood.org), Public Citizen, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and MN COACT.


Wednesday June 7, 7 PM

Come to an organizing and consumer awareness forum

Hamline University Law and Graduate School Conference Center

1536 Hewitt Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota.


For more information, contact Organic Consumers Association Midwest Field Organizer Tom Taylor 612/331-7309

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