Wed Oct 1 Food choices and the environment: What you eat makes a difference!

[Guest guest]

Food choices and the environment: What you eat makes a difference!

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

12–1:30 p.m.

Latino/Hispanic Room

San Francisco Public Library, Lower Level

100 Larkin St. (at Grove St.)

 

Did you know:

 

· Food in the United States travels an average of 1500 miles

before it is consumed?*

· Over 12,000 chemicals and 3,000 additives are used to

produce our food?*

· Livestock production generates even more greenhouse gases

than cars?*

· You have a say in changing these statistics!

 

Panelists:

Ø Linda Riebel, author, Eating to save the earth: food choices

for a healthy planet

Ø Claudia Delman, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

Ø Kristen Miles, San Francisco Vegetarian Society

 

*Sources: Linda Riebel; Eating to save the earth, 2002; " Rethinking

the Meat Guzzler " by Mark Bittman, NY Times, Jan. 27, 2008; " Eating

Less Meat And Junk Food Could Cut Fossil Energy Fuel Use Almost In

Half " Science Daily, July 24, 2008.

 

 

All programs at the Library are free.

 

For additional information: (415) 557-4277 www.sfpl.org

 

 

Cosponsors: Wallace Stegner Environmental Center and Business,

Science & Technology Department

sign, Sunny

signature:

this got people to wake up on how cows are made

http://www.markfiore.com/doreen_downer_0