Inaugural Animal Studies lecture of 2023/2024: Bringing the Plant-based Treaty to Canadian Cities

The current global food system with expanding meat, dairy, and egg consumption is breaching six planetary boundaries: climate change, land conversion, biodiversity loss, phosphorus and nitrate loading, ocean acidification and freshwater withdrawal. Climate impacts like forest fires, floods, heat waves, and extreme weather caused by animal agriculture and fossil fuel use lead to impacts like extreme weather, heat waves, sea level rise, food insecurity, climate migrants, and wildfires, species extinction and animal suffering.

The Plant Based Treaty offers a way to put bottom-up pressure on governments to negotiate a global treaty calling for a plant-based food system and rewilding the Earth by collecting endorsements from individuals, groups, businesses and cities. The campaign also focuses on local climate action through a set of Plant Based Treaty Playbooks on best practices for local cities, schools, universities, hospitals, prisons, retirement homes and global institutions. Through the Plant Based Treaty you can get involved as an individual or group from participating in street actions to on-line and in person advocacy by engaging with city councillors and global climate talks.

Please join us on October 3, 2023 at 4pm to welcome Anita Krajnc, the Executive Director of Animal Save Movement and the Global Campaign Coordinator for the Plant-based Treaty, who will speak about Bringing the Plant-based Treaty to Canadian Cities.

The lecture will be held in a hybrid format.  Please join us in-person in CRX C408 (uOttawa campus) or register to obtain the Zoom link to join us online. 

For any questions, please contact [email protected].

The lecture will be held in English only.