Which vision do we choose: genetically engineered crops, pesticide-drenched fields and farmworkers, hunger and malnutrition in the inner city -- or locally grown organic produce, poison-free and available to all? Food and agriculture are at a crossroads. Our public universities should be devoting their resources to creating an ecologically sane and socially just food system. Instead, UC Berkeley has just signed a deal with biotech giant Novartis for more frankenfood research that will only fatten Novartis' profits and make all the above problems worse.

Meanwhile UC's Gill Tract in Albany languishes, a shining opportunity to establish a sustainable urban agriculture research center that could benefit all our communities. Will UC act on this opportunity? Will it sell the property to developers? Will it turn the Gill Tract over to more corporate-funded biotech research?

Come to a teach-in to explore the issues and opportunities for action on urban food systems, corporate funding of public research, and the potential of the Gill Tract to address these concerns. Sustainable food research for people and communities? Or bio-hostile research for corporate profit?

Saturday, Nov. 6 • 10a.m. - 2p.m.

South Berkeley Senior Center