Food for Thought

Film double bill from Cornwall's Climate Stories + Q&A

Doing Veganuary?
Committed carnivore?
Or just confused??
Should we all be giving up meat and dairy if we’re to have a hope of getting climate change under control?
This is what the headlines seem to tell us – but are things quite so black and white?
This is a double bill film screening from Cornwall Climate Care (cornwallclimate.org), headlined by the charity’s latest film ‘Food for Thought’.
Presented by organic farmer Lisa Guy, who farms a herd of beef cattle near Land’s End, it takes a ‘behind the headlines’ look at the claims around the climate impact of livestock farming.
Animal agriculture is calculated to contribute more to the world’s greenhouse gas emissions than transport.
But do pasture-fed animals in Cornwall, where the whole landscape has been shaped by centuries of animal agriculture, have the same climate impact as intensively reared cattle, fed on soya grown in what might recently have been Amazonian rainforest?
This film features a wide range of voices and interesting and sometimes surprising projects working on these issues throughout the Duchy.
There will also be a screening of the charity’s film ‘Down the Drain’, presented by the ‘lone kayaker’ Rupert Kirkwood, who takes us on a trip up the River Tamar to look at all the many issues relating to our fresh water and climate change in Cornwall.
Followed by Q&A with the filmmakers and experts.
The event also features a ‘waste food’ supper and bar.