Sustainability Week: Free Screening of GMO OMG!
Venue: Alexander Black House & Cultural Center, Blacksburg
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre
Cost: Free
Description:
As part of Sustainability Week 2014, watch a free screening of "GMO OMG!" at the Alexander Black House on Wednesday, September 17, 2014.

GMO OMG director and concerned father Jeremy Seifert is in search of answers. How do GMOs affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice? And perhaps the ultimate question, which Seifert tests himself: is it even possible to reject the food system currently in place, or have we lost something we can’t gain back? These and other questions take Seifert on a journey from his family’s table to Haiti, Paris, Norway, and the lobby of agra–giant Monsanto, from which he is unceremoniously ejected. Along the way we gain insight into a question that is of growing concern to citizens the world over: what’s on your plate?

For more information about this film, visit: http://www.gmofilm.com/

Since 2007, the Town of Blacksburg has partnered with Sustainable Blacksburg and Virginia Tech to offer a week-long slate of events in mid-September giving town residents and university students lots of ways to "Celebrate - Educate - Motivate" around sustainability issues. Altogether, there will be 16 fun, informative, and inspiring events.

For more information and a full line-up of the events for Sustainability Week, visit: http://www.facilities.vt.edu/sustainability/2014/sustWeek2014.asp or contact Emily Schosid at eschosid@vt.edu or 540-231-7358.