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Dateline: 8/31/2007

GONZAGA UNIVERSITY NEWS RELEASE
Dale Goodwin, Director
Peter Tormey, Associate Director

Brother Andrews to Discuss Moral Eating Sept. 6

Brother David Andrews, a member of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, will discuss “Eating is a Moral Act” at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 6, in the Gonzaga University School of Law’s Barbieri Courtroom. The lecture, sponsored by the Catholicism for a New Millennium Series, is free and open to the public.

Brother Andrews will discuss a way of eating that links farmers and consumers, environmentalists and economists, the global and the local, and Catholic social teaching with the world’s religious and moral wisdom. According to Andrews, people’s lifestyles and eating practices, as well as institutional practices, require change. Today, ecology and economy are so interdependent that, “We can change the world with our forks and knives,” said Rev. Tim Clancy, S.J., associate professor of philosophy at Gonzaga.

Andrews, who earned a law degree from Loyola University in New Orleans, is executive director of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, the lead voice for the Catholic Church on rural life, food, farm workers and environmental concerns in the United States. Andrews also is a member of the Heifer International Board of Directors. In 2005, Andrews received the “Excellence in Practice and Application Award” from the Rural Sociological Society. He directs the office of peace and justice for the Congregation of the Holy Cross.

Andrews’ discussion will be one of many events at Gonzaga that focus on the theme of food and agriculture this academic year. Other food-related events on campus will include:

  • “Broken Limbs: Apples, Agriculture and the New American Farmer,” documentary film, 7-9 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 26, in the Jepson Center’s Wolff Auditorium.
  • “Theology, Ethics and Agriculture,” lecture by Mark Graham, 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 1, location TBA.
  • “Safe Food and Fertilizer,” lecture by Patty Martin, 5:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 12, in the Jepson Center’s Wolff Auditorium.
  • “The Post-Industrial Eater: Aligning Ethical Values and Food Choices,” lecture by Ellen Maccarone, 7-9 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 14, in the Jepson Center’s Wolff Auditorium.
  • “Food for Thought,” art exhibition, Nov. 30-March 8 (2008), in the Jundt Art Museum’s Arcade Gallery.

For more information, contact Rev. Tim Clancy via e-mail or at (509) 323-6701