Our relationship to meat and its environmental impact
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Monday, November 27 at 6 PM - 7 PM Location: LIB.2
As part of the Meatless Monday Campaign, Climate Reality is holding a talk about the environmental impacts of meat production and consumption. Speakers will be engaging with questions surrounding the concrete environmental costs of our current livestock management system, as well as the sociology of meat eating.
Come along and learn more about this important issue which is linked, for most of us, to our daily habits -- or come for the yummy vegetarian and Vegan-friendly snacks 😋😋EndFragment
Check out the speakers:
Our first speaker, Dr Andrew Jones, will be giving a systemic introduction to the issue of meat production and consumption ✨
Dr Andrew Jones is part of the Global Sustainable Development department at Warwick, after having switched from the History department this year. His modules include food systems and sustainability. He is currently co-convening the GSD module Food Systems: Security, Sovereignty and Sustainability. He took his history degree at University of Manchester, his MA in contemporary history in Birmingham, and finally his PhD in Modern History at University of Birmingham. Prior to working at our university, Andrew worked for the University of Birmingham as a Teaching Fellow in Modern History, School of History and Cultures.
Our second speaker, Rob Lilywhite, will be discussing the environmental impact of meat production and consumption 🌱 Rob is an assistant professor in the Life Sciences department at the University of Warwick. He works on techniques such as footprinting in order to assess the impacts of environmental systems. He has completed research in food security, environmental accounting, and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.
Our third speaker, Jake Sallaway-Costello, will engage with the sociology of meat eating 🐾
Jake is a PhD Researcher and Assistant Lecturer at Birmingham City University, which he joined in March 2015 after working in social research. After graduating with a BPS-accredited degree in health psychology from Bangor University, Jake worked as a research assistant for Food Dudes Health in association with the Centre for Activity and Eating Research, developing behaviourist interventions to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in school children. Following this, he worked on an independent social research project for the North Wales Economic Ambition Board examining the causes of human capital flight in North Wales. Jake’s current research investigates meat consumption from a cultural perspective in an interdisciplinary project. Prior to beginning a career in research Jake worked in posts supporting international students in the UK and developing student employability programmes.
Our final speaker, Dr. Rosemary Collier, will focus on consumer behaviour 👥💷
Dr. Rosemary Collier trained as an entomologist and has worked on the pest insects of horticultural crops for many years. She is particularly interested in using science to address problems in the horticultural industry. She currently leads the taught Masters courses at Warwick on Sustainable Crop Production and Food Security and within these leads modules on the Challenges of Global Food Security and Organic and Low Input Systems and teaches Integrated Pest Management. She also teaches undergraduates and postgraduates about the concept of ecosystem services and particularly those delivered by land managers. Rosemary is a member of Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment, the Royal Horticultural Society Science Committee, the UK Insecticide Resistance Action Group and the IOBC-WPRS Council. She is also Director of Warwick Crop Centre and an Academic Lead for the Warwick Global Research Priority (GRP) on Food. Her main research interest is in the development and application of Integrated Pest Management strategies for horticultural crops. Rosemary is also interested in the wider aspects of food production and consumption and in recent years has collaborated with colleagues from a range of disciplines (sociology, geography, statistics, engineering, theatre studies) on projects associated with food and food security.
