Robyn shares her personal story and how it inspired her current path as a “Real Food” evangelist. Grounded in a successful Wall Street career that was more interested in food as good business than good-for-you, this mother of four was shaken awake by the dangerous allergic reaction of one of her children to a “typical” breakfast. Her mission to unearth the cause revealed more about the food industry than she could stomach, and impelled her to share her findings with others. Informative and inspiring.

About this speaker

Robyn authored “The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It.” A former Wall Street food industry analyst, Robyn brings insight, compassion and detailed analysis to her research into the impact that the global food system is having on the health of our children. She founded allergykidsfoundation.org and was named by Forbes as one of “20 Inspiring Women to Follow on Twitter.” The New York Times has passionately described her as “Food’s Erin Brockovich.”

http://allergykidsfoundation.org

http://twitter.com/unhealthytruth

Before we released our speaker’s names, we featured a series of Speaker Teasers. Here, Robyn’s:

Real food, is that too much to ask;

Big industry, I take to task;

It’s time that we reclaim our plates;

from food forced into altered states.

One Response to “Phenomenal Talk About Our Food Supply”

1. Jason Couch says:

   August 22, 2011 at 11:01 am

   This is absolutely phenomenal. I’m not an American, but I’m in the States a lot and I’m sometimes so afraid of what’s in the food. I posted to you once about how my low fat yogurt in LA (tastiest I’ve ever had, by the way) had about 10 ingredients, 9 of which I couldn’t pronouce. The one I could pronounce was milk. Thankfully it was the first on the list.

   Anyway, thanks sooo much for bringing to our attention so many things we would normally miss.

   Take care
   Jason

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