VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH & ROUNDTABLE: Green Meat? Sustaining Eaters, Animals, and the Planet

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Join Ryan Katz-Rosene and Sarah Martin, editors of Green Meat? Sustaining Eaters, Animals, and the Planet, for a virtual book launch and roundtable discussion. The event is part of Environmental Studies Association of Canada virtual association conference, as part of the Congress 2020 Virtual Conferences.

SPEAKERS

Sarah Martin, Assistant Professor, Memorial University Newfoundland
Ryan Katz-Rosene, Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa
Shirley Thompson, Associate Professor, University of Manitoba
Caitlin Scott, Professor, George Brown College
Keshab Thapa, PhD Candidate, Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba
Pepper Pritty, PhD Candidate, Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba
Abra Brynne, Executive Director, Central Kootenay Food Policy Council
Ali Kenefick, PhD Candidate, Concordia University
Gwendolyn Blue, Associate Professor, University of Calgary

ABOUT THE BOOK

Sustainable food systems are multiple and varied and represent the diversity and complexity we see in the world. A range of socio-ecological and political-economic challenges and solutions are involved in the question of whether sustainable meat consumption exists. Green Meat? teases out some of that complexity in order to consider what roles animals and their products might play in the future as the world works towards new ways of living. Through an interdisciplinary lens, scholars and practitioners critically examine the multifaceted dimensions of "green meat": contributors confront the industrial production and slaughter of animals, ask what it means to be a carnivore, and consider the possibilities of regenerative animal agriculture and cellular agriculture. The book analyzes ongoing damage to the landscape, the climate, and water systems caused by conventional livestock production and looks at current debates about the place of meat in sustainable agri-food systems.