4/3/98

Contacts:
Clark Ford, Food Science and Human Nutrition, 515/294-0343
Susan Thompson, Agriculture Information, 515/294-0705

EARTH WEEK ISU BIOETHICS SYMPOSIUM ON FOOD PRODUCTION

AMES, Iowa -- The ethics of increasing world food production will be debated at an Earth Week Bioethics Symposium at Iowa State University April 25.

Organizers say the symposium will look at whether the world needs more food production, what effect more production might have on the world population and the environment, and the roles of economic, political and social inequity in world hunger.

Speakers will include Ricardo Salvador, ISU associate professor of agronomy; Luther Tweeten, Ohio State University professor of agricultural economics and rural sociology; and Mathis Wackernagel, professor and coordinator of the Center for Sustainability Studies at the Universidad Anahuac de Xalapa in Mexico.

A $5 registration fee includes a luncheon patterned after the way the world eats &emdash; a few will eat a first-class meal, some will eat a basic meal and the majority will eat a bowl of rice.

The symposium is open to the general public. It begins at 8:30 a.m. and adjourns at 4 p.m., and will be held in the Curtiss Hall auditorium. The registration deadline is April 17. Send the $5 registration fee to Clark Ford, 2312 Food Sciences Building, ISU, Ames, IA 50011. Or call him at 515/294-0343.

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