Tonight from 7pm to 9pm, Slow Food USA’s exec director Erika Lesser will hold forth at Town Hall on the true costs of our food system and its consequences to our health, the environment, and farm workers.

You know how topical this is: Films and books like Fast Food Nation, Food Inc., In Defense of Food, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, have in recent years explored the macro impacts of our culture’s relationship with food.

Other food activists will be in attendance, including organic orchardist Adolfo Alvarez and PCC nutrition educator Goldie Caughlan, who knows more about the origin of what we put into our mouths than anyone can remain comfortable knowing. (Caughlin once looked into my refrigerator, shuddered visibly, then closed the door and smiled politely.)

Admission is $10 and will benefit the Laurel Rubin Farm Worker Justice Project.

Actually, it will benefit all of us. See you there.