The Goodwin-Niering Center Presents: Feeding the Future

This Saturday the Goodwin-Neiring Center for the Environment hosted the landmark Feeding the Future conference. The conference, which kick-started on Friday with a talk from Dan Barber, author of The Third Plate, showcased many innovative speakers in the fields of sustainability and food systems technology. Led by Jane Dawson and student members of the GNCE certificate program, the conference entertained alternative approaches to big issues with a ‘broken’ food system. Speaker Malik Yasini, for instance, illustrated the power of the urban-farming movement in downtown Detroit, while technologist Andras Forgacs probed the world of cultured, ‘animal-free’, meat production. The event also featured a capstone dining event provided by Chef Bun Lai of Miya’s Sushi, who tempted the minds and taste buds of attendees with sushi dishes designed around invasive species and a maverick movement to re-define ecologically sustainable and nourishing food traditions. •