Sun 18 Apr 2010 10:49 pm
You might have met farmer Joel Salatin, “America’s most celebrated pioneer of chemical-free farming,” on the page through Michael Pollan. Now, you get a chance to meet him on the screen in the movie FRESH — or in person, when he appears at the University of Washington on Tuesday, April 20.
Organizers of a week full of events to celebrate the movie’s Seattle opening are kindly offering a pair of tickets to Salatin’s $25 Kane Hall appearances to our readers. The winner can choose between Tuesday’s 6 p.m. talk on “The Sheer Ecstasy of Being A Lunatic Farmer,” and the 8 p.m. talk titled “Can You Feed The World? Answering Elitism, Production, and Choice.”
(For a closer-up conversation, you could also attend a FRESH fundraiser at Emmer & Rye earlier in the day, with attendance limited to 25 people, but that one’s $125.)
Want to play? Leave a comment on this post, and be sure I have a way to contact you if you win. Time is short, so I’ll be randomly picking a winner from the comments at 9 p.m. PST Monday. If you have time to mull it over, I’m curious to know how you would answer the question posed in Salatin’s 8 p.m. talk. How do you answer charges of elitism about what you eat?
*Updated 4/19 to say that our random number generator picked Debra E. as our ticket winner! Debra, email me at rebekahdenn at gmail.com so I can arrange to get your tickets to you! Thank you for playing, and we do have discount tickets available for other readers — the organizers will give you 20 percent off the list price by using the code “FRESHpromo” on Brown Paper Tickets.
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I’m very excited for Joel’s visit especially on the heels of Anna Lappe.
I think a lot of the current discussion about eating local & diet has become a bit elitist.
I would really enjoy attending this. I hope my comment is sticky when you reach in to pull out the winner. As to the question of being charged with being elite in my eating habits… It is really not an issue, as I am almost always more informed and passionate about what I eat than the person making the assertion that I am elite. There is also a decent chance that I grew it, hunted or know who did. Most people find that pretty neat. Be passionate yet not fanatical and more often than not, you will be fine.
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It would be a treat (no pun intended) to hear Salatin speak. Shifting to a diet of locally grown food has literally been a life changing experience for me and my fiancee. I want to become more educated (and persuasive) so that I can help more people embrace this lifestyle.
As a farmer at heart and someone very interested in the local food movement, hearing Joel Salatin speak would be quite the treat.