Conference February 2010

Conference February 2010

Sponsors

Saturday, February 20, 2010
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
University of Toronto Conference Centre
89 Chestnut St., Toronto
$65 ($85 after January 31); $55 COG members
Includes organic lunch!
Info: 416-466-4420

New!
National Post webinar featuring three of our conference speakers:
Food Politics Roundtable: State of Organic Foods and GMOs
Do organic pigs get swine flu? Why did McCain’s say no to Genetically Modified Organism’s (GMO’s) in the potatoes for their French fries? Can we trust others to know what is best for us? It’s time to make hard choices about the food we eat. When our leaders won’t, what can we do to ensure we are doing the best for ourselves, our families and our health? How can we make the best choices? Be inspired once again by how the organic sector perseveres in producing the healthiest, safest food possible and the challenges it has overcome. It is time to learn how genetic engineering impacts our health, and how it effects our food. This year we celebrate a forward thinking company that is choosing to take GMO’s off its shelves and one man who has fought against the odds. This conference is also about growing and reforming. Above all, it is about choosing food with spirit!
Featuring: Bärbel Höhn, Germany’s first green agricultural minister; Percy Schmeiser, Saskatchewan farmer who challenged Monsanto; Megan Westgate, Executive Director of the Non-GMO Project, and scientists, politicians, farmers, retailers, and concerned people like you.

Lifetime Organic Hero Award will be presented to

Wilhelm and Barnhild Pfenning

Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment

Your Food,

Your Choice: Grounds for Change

A one-day conference presented in association with

The Big Carrot

Gold Partner

Media Sponsors

“I've always had a wonderful learning experience, absolutely delicious lunch meals and some very charismatic speakers each year at the COG festival. I'm now studying holistic nutrition to become a Registered Holistic Nutritionist after being so very inspired last year listening to a talk by Joey Schulman and having a chance to speak with her. I was fascinated by her talk and it gave me a real direction to go into Nutrition and it's been the best decision I've ever made. And it all started with the Canadian Organic Growers convention, without it I probably still wouldn't have a direction.”

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