Friday 5 June: Food For All Debate with George Alagiah

St Peter’s Church, De Beauvoir Road, N1

7:30pm Friday  5 June

George Alagiah, BBC journalist, patron of the Fairtrade Foundation, and Hackney resident, will be launching this first in a series of debates on the big issues of our times, which St. Peter’s Church plans to make an annual event.

Are organic, fairly traded and sustainably produced foods a luxury, or a necessity? Is GM and intensive farming the only way forward?

Is there anything left that we can eat, that isn’t unhealthy, endangered, unethical, or just too expensive? Or is that a distraction? Is maintaining basic food supplies for us all actually going to become the greater global issue?

This will be followed by a discussion, chaired by George, in which speakers from local food initiatives will take part: find out what YOU can do.

Bar in the interval, and afterwards: carry on the debate, or talk to representatives from Growing Communities, Hackney City Farm, Waterhouse, Hackney Transition Town, and more.

ENTRY FREE, NO BOOKING NECESSARY

Donations will go to the St. Peter’s fund, for the refurbishment of the Crypt as a community facility.