Guest Speaker Joey Tuminello
April 19 • Earth Week 2022
Date
Address
Ignatius Chapel
6363 St, Charles Avenue
70118, New Orleans, LA
Free parking is provided in the West Road Parking Garage
Time
Cost
Free“Food Ethics in Practice: Farm Forward and the Better Food Foundation”
This talk focuses on Tuminello's advocacy work for the nonprofit organization's Farm Forward and the Better Food Foundation. Using examples of specific projects that he has led or contributed to since 2011 (including recent and upcoming events and programs), he will discuss how these efforts to build a just, equitable, and sustainable food system both inform and are informed by my philosophical research, illustrating the importance of feedback loops in the relationship between theory and practice.
Joey Tuminello is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA, and Program Coordinator for the nonprofit organization Farm Forward. His research interests include the philosophies of food, medicine, animals, and environment through the lenses of hermeneutics, pragmatism, and Jainism. With Farm Forward, Joey has worked on numerous education and research projects. Joey’s lead project with Farm Forward is an annual webinar event featuring Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather (2019).
