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SunOpta Sponsors Key Note Address by Alice Waters, Celebrated Chef, Author & Humanitarian, at Natural Products Expo West
SunOpta Sponsors Key Note Address by Alice Waters, Celebrated Chef, Author & Humanitarian, at Natural Products Expo West.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nTORONTO, February 7 /CNW/ - SunOpta Inc. (SunOpta or the Company)\n(NASDAQ:STKL) (TSX:SOY). SunOpta is pleased to sponsor the keynote address by\nAlice Waters at the Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, California on March\n8, 2007. Alice Waters is a celebrated chef, award-winning author and owner of\nChez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California. A champion of small, local,\norganic farms and ranches for more than three decades, Waters is credited for\nhelping change the food landscape in America. Waters is also the Vice\nPresident of Slow Food, an international organization based in Italy that\nworks to protect and preserve traditional foods and the communities that\nproduce them. Her long list of prestigious awards includes Lifetime\nAchievement Award, James Beard Foundation, 2004; Force For Nature Award,\nNatural Resources Defense Council, 2004; Best Restaurant in America, Gourmet\nMagazine, 2001; Lifetime Achievement Award, Bon Appetit magazine 2000.\n\n\nIn addition to her work at Chez Panisse Restaurant and Slow Food, Waters\nis the founding director of the Edible Schoolyard, a model garden and kitchen\nprogram in Berkeley, which involves students in all aspects of growing,\nharvesting, and cooking food. Last year she helped launch the Edible\nSchoolyard in New Orleans, and is consulting on similar programs nationwide.\n\n\n\"SunOpta is fully committed to supporting local organic producers and\nhonouring leading proponents of local food systems in the various regions that\nwe operate,\" commented Steve Bromley, President and CEO of SunOpta Inc. He\ncontinued, \"With this in mind, we are very pleased to sponsor Alice Waters and\ncelebrate her work with local growers.\" SunOpta, too, enjoys strong\nrelationships with organic producers through its extensive operations located\nacross North America. Over 40% of SunOpta's food revenues are attributed to\nthe organic market, of which a significant portion supports local organic\nproduction. In keeping with SunOpta's core values and that of the organic\ncommunity, all of the products manufactured by SunOpta are organic and/or free\nof genetically engineered organisms.\n\n\nPlease visit SunOpta at the upcoming Natural Products Expo West Show in\nAnaheim, CA March, 9-11, 2007, at the SunOpta Booths (number sign)2380 and (number sign)2481.\n\n\nAbout SunOpta Inc.\n\n\nS...