my name is kevin o'malley. i'm chairman of the business leadership forum here at the club and your host for tonight. our program tonight is "food fights for the 21st century." women's voices driving change. our panelists are judi shils, zen honeycutt, deborah coons garcia and our moderator christie dames. we're going to turn it over to audience questions now. if you are here, if you would not going around the back and coming up the hall way so we don't have you on camera. deborah i'm going to ask the first question that a lot of people, if you have -- you had a fairly famous husband, who was -- is an important part of your life, as well. people wanted to know, what did jerry think about organic foods and eating right? >> well, yeah. when i first met him 40 years ago, they were not really into organic food, but i was so i was pushing, a health fanatic and stuff. but it was very hard to eat well back then. especially if you're a vegetarian or trying to eat healthy food if you're on the road a lot. by the '90s, th

i'm kevin o'malley, thank you for being here tonight. with this i would like to close this program of the commonwealth club of california celebrating over 125 years of enlightened public discussion. [ cheers and applause ] >>> the 2014 coverage recently included the race for north carolina's second district. here is a look at the candidates in their first debate. >>> we never ended the war on terror. this is just an extension of it. >> can you end it? >> that's the question. we're talking about radical islam. we're talking about those that believe this is the plan for the future. it has been in place since, you know, the beginning. we have to make sure that we're doing everything we can to keep our allies safe, working with our allies, working with those countries to make sure that we have a presence there. when we leave, when we draw down, when we say we're victorious in a land that we are not, that's when these groups emerge. and we have to end that. to the point of the president, yes, we will be doing everything in we can to support t

i'm kevin o'malley, thank you for being here tonight. with this i would like to close this program of the commonwealth club of california celebrating over 125 years of enlightened public discussion. [ cheers and applause ] >>> tonight on c-span 3, a look at journalism and national security. officials debate the need for government secrecy versus the right to a free press. coverage examines the fallout from the edward snowden surveillance leaks and the views on the obama administration's efforts to stop those leaks. that's tonight here on c-span 3. >>> c-span's campaign coverage continue this is evening with debates across all three networks. on c-span, a senate race in west virginia with the secretary of state natalie it tenant. they face-off in a a race for the open seat of retiring senator jay rockefeller. on c-span, in virginia's senate debate between mark warner and his republican challenger the former rnc chair ed gillespie. five candidates battling for an open seat including businessman charlie baker. you can watch live campaign 20

i'm kevin o'malley, chairman of the business and leadership forum at the club and and host tonight. food fights for the 21st century. women's voices driving change. our panelists are filmmaker and director of symphony for the soil. moms across america. judy shills, founder and executive director of teams turning green and our host and mot raider is from tech talk studio and director of moms. >> thank you very much, kevin and thank you to the common wealth club. appreciate being here tonight. i'm excited to have these three powerful women. some moms, some aren't. powerful women all the same. tonight we have an exciting program about foot and what's happening with our foot. i will ask my first question from debra garr siamp you have two major award winning films. you are quite the vocal activist and speaker. you have a famous husband, jerry garcia. how did you come to make films about food? you have been a film make are for a long time. how did you arrive about food? >> i started making films in college and because of that era, the back to the land and going natural and all that, i be