What's For Dinner?

Tonight's Guest: Yan Jairong There are not as many protests about food in China as about other issues - in all around 180,000 demonstrations a year. But middle class mothers demonstrate against having Genetically Modified Organism's (GMO's) in food, and some grow their own food. Yan Jairong is a co-founder of the Chinese Food Sovereignty Network and an anthropologist in Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Department of Applied Social Sciences. In this fascinating account you hear concerns surprisingly similar to those elsewhere, as she distinguishes between food security (a huge concern for decades) and food sovereignty. She also describes the young network's efforts to learn from food sovereignty movements in the rest of the world and recent food safety legislation.