Slow Food USA is offering a free, online panel discussion about meat that it’s framing as a way to begin talking about the 2023 Farm Bill.
Join us to examine the impacts of industrial-scale livestock production. We’ll hear perspectives from small-scale farmers and ranchers, humane animal husbandry, regenerative environmental practices, climate impact, and meat and poultry workers. This will serve as a launch point for the 2023 Farm Bill discussions. We’ll focus on Representative Pingree’s Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) and Senator Booker’s Farm System Reform Act. After our conversation, we’ll give you simple steps to call your legislators to support the bills. This panel is curated by our National Food and Farm Policy committee.
https://slowfoodusa.org/slow-food-live/
A Slow Meat Panel with Matthew Raiford, Wednesday, February 10, 11am PST/2pm EST
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Great link, Cindy! We aren’t having a serious conversation about climate change without including our meat consumption in the discussion (and I say that as someone who is neither vegetarian or vegan).
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Ya, meat was one of the first issues I fussed over when I became interested in the links between climate and agriculture. It took me a long time to finally come to the conclusion that you can’t have a functioning ecosystem that doesn’t include both plants and animals, and functioning ecosystems are the best way to restore natural cycles of water, methane, nitrogen and — the biggy for global warming — carbon. So I’m not against meat, but I am against industrially raised meat. As they say, it’s not the cow, it’s the how.
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Right! I’ve never heard it put like that: “It’s not the cow, it’s the how.” What a perfect way to explain the issue to the uninitiated!
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