talk
february 2007
1:00pm - 2:00pm
But If You Are to Eat Meat
Sun 18th | 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Feast tent
hosted by | Fernleigh Free Range
Reducing our meat consumption is an important part of sustainability, but not everybody can instantly switch to a vegetarian/vegan diet due to personal or cultural reasons. This interactive presentation will assess various kinds of meats according to their sustainability level. It will provide people with handy tips and resources to help them make more sustainable choices.
Fiona Chambers, Carole de Fraga, Trichur Vidyasagar
Fiona Chambers is owner and manager of Fernleigh Free Range. She holds a Diploma of Applied Science in Agriculture specialising in animal health, nutrition and genetics. Fiona has been awarded a number of awards and fellowships in her 18-year farming career including the Fellow Williamson Community Leadership Program (1998), Victorian Farm Entrepreneur of the Year (2000), and Jack Green Churchill Fellowship (2003). She travelled to the UK, Denmark, France, Germany and America for 3 months to study organic industry development, and in 2004 was the Victorian delegate to Terra Madre, a slow food meeting in Italy of 5000 sustainable food producers from around the world. Fiona began breeding Wessex Saddleback pigs at her farm near Daylesford in 1995 and established Victoria’s first certified organic pork enterprise. She is a founding director of the Rare Breeds Trust of Australia and has recently been appointed as a director of the Rare Breeds International world board.
Carole de Fraga is the Oceania Regional Representative of the international UK-based farm animal welfare organisation, Compassion in World Farming.
CIWF recognises farm animals as sentient beings with the ability to experience pain, suffering and fear, but also who can enjoy their lives when provided with the appropriate farming environment fort their species. Carole has worked professionally in the area of animal welfare for nearly 20 years and has a post-graduate degree in European Studies with a research focus on farm animal welfare in an enlarging European Union. Her principles align quite naturally with those of CIWF, thus extending to encompass concern for the environment , its resources and peoples due to the global expansion of intensive animal farming.
Associate Professor Trichur Vidyasagar works at the University of
Melbourne. His main area of research is neuroscience, but he has had a longstanding interest in the relationship between food production and its ecological impact. He has studied the benefits that reducing our meat consumption would bring to the global environment, in particular the effects of reforestation on the greenhouse effect. Lifting the much larger ecological footprint of meat will release large tracts of land for such reforestation and for production of alternative sources of energy and save much water.
Carole de Fraga is the Oceania Regional Representative of the international UK-based farm animal welfare organisation, Compassion in World Farming.
CIWF recognises farm animals as sentient beings with the ability to experience pain, suffering and fear, but also who can enjoy their lives when provided with the appropriate farming environment fort their species. Carole has worked professionally in the area of animal welfare for nearly 20 years and has a post-graduate degree in European Studies with a research focus on farm animal welfare in an enlarging European Union. Her principles align quite naturally with those of CIWF, thus extending to encompass concern for the environment , its resources and peoples due to the global expansion of intensive animal farming.
Associate Professor Trichur Vidyasagar works at the University of
Melbourne. His main area of research is neuroscience, but he has had a longstanding interest in the relationship between food production and its ecological impact. He has studied the benefits that reducing our meat consumption would bring to the global environment, in particular the effects of reforestation on the greenhouse effect. Lifting the much larger ecological footprint of meat will release large tracts of land for such reforestation and for production of alternative sources of energy and save much water.
organic@fernleighfarms.com