National Catholic Rural Life Conference Director to Give Talk at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – Brother David G. Andrews, CSC, will give a talk titled “How Then Shall We Eat? The Politics and Morality of Food” on Jan. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The talk is free and open to the public.

He is the executive director of the 82-year-old National Catholic Rural Life Conference based in Des Moines, Iowa. The NCRLC is a lead voice for the Catholic Church in the United States on food, farm, farm-worker and environmental concerns. NCRLC does outreach, advocacy, spirituality, and education.

Br. Andrews has a law degree from Loyola University New Orleans. He serves as a consultant with the Domestic Policy Committee of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops and is a member of the Governor of Iowa’s Food Policy Council. He was an accredited NGO representative at the Seattle WTO, the World Food Summit in Rome, and the Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development and the Cancun and Hong Kong ministerial of the WTO. He has visited Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and Canada studying agriculture, trade and development and networking on behalf of a progressive trade policy in agriculture. He has served as a board member of the Organization for Competitive Markets, the Community Food Security Coalition, the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture, the Midwest Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. He is a board member of The Heifer Project International.

The event is sponsored by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.