Title:
The Ecological Hoofprint: Meat, Energy, and Sustainability
Abstract:
For millennia, livestock were a fundamental source of energy on farms and in human societies. Today, livestock production is a large and growing consumer of energy and source of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. This is entwined with the fact that the average person on earth today eats twice as much meat as only two generations ago, a broad global trend which also contains enormous inequalities.
This talk will explain the 'ecological hoofprint', a conceptual framework that helps to understand why the soaring global production and consumption of animal foods has become a pivotal sustainability problem.
Bio:
Presented by Tony Weis, Associate Professor of Geography, Western University.
Tony Weis is the author of The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock (2013) and The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming (2007)