Beef, bread and water: ethical food in a warm and thirsty world - evening lectures

Venue: Savoy Place,London, WC2R 0BL
 
Compassion in World Farming’s 2010 lecture addresses some of the key crises facing the world: climate change, water scarcity, food insecurity and their direct links to farm animal welfare.

- What should we eat?
- Is organic food best?
- How much water do we use to produce a kilo of beef or chicken?
- How can we achieve equitable food distribution?

Bringing together some of the most exciting experts on the environment, food security and animal welfare, our lecture will offer not only answers to these questions, but positive solutions for animals, people and the planet.

Speakers include:

Dr Samuel Jutzi, Director, Animal Production and Health Division, FAO
"The rapidly growing global demand for meat, milk and eggs can be met in an environmentally sustainable way only if the related growth in commercial animal production is scaled to the capacity of the land to absorb nutrients and if the increasingly scarce natural resources are used as efficiently as possible, without compromising animal welfare."

Prof Arjen Joekstra, Creator of the water footprint concept
"If people consider reducing their water footprint, they are advised to look critically at their diet rather than at their water use in the kitchen, bathroom and garden."

Philip Lymbery, Chief Executive, Compassion in World Farming
"A recent groundswell of scientific research, public policy and public opinion is steadily moving away from the old regime of factory farming with all of its negative consequences, toward a positive future in which the world is fed with humane and healthy food, while protecting the environment. As always, the choice is ours.”

Dr Kate Rawles, Senior lecturer, University of Cumbria
"We are missing a key dimension in our model to re-structure and create sustainable food systems into the future: that key dimension is animal welfare."

Cost to attend is £25

  Phone: 01483 521 953
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