Eating for a Healthy Planet: A Conversation with Canadians
Monday, April 22nd, 5-6 pm
UVic Fine Arts Building (facing the Phoenix Theatre), Room FA103 (ground floor by entrance)
Contact: Holly Cecil, cecil@uvic.ca

This one-hour documentary was produced as part of the UVic Human Dimensions of Climate Change program. The UN Food & Agriculture Organization and numerous other international studies report livestock agriculture as responsible for almost one-fifth of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. That’s more than the emissions from all the world’s forms of transportation, combined. A dietary reduction in animal products is one of the single largest ways you can help reduce your carbon footprint. Worldwide, initiatives such as Meatless Mondays in 24 countries are impelling a sea change in the way we think about food and its environmental impacts. Why do none of our government initiatives on climate change say a word about it? The film looks into Canada’s misleading reporting structure of greenhouse gases emissions, and also includes interviews with several Canadians who each discuss personal commitment to different levels of reduction: from ‘locavores’ and flexitarians to vegetarians to vegans.