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Plant-Based Canada Podcast
Welcome to the Plant-Based Canada Podcast. Join us as we talk with experts to explore the field of nutritional sciences and how our food choices impact our health and the environment. We sit down with Canadian doctors, dieticians, athletes, climate experts and others/more, to break down the evidence behind a Whole Food Plant-Based diet, and discuss the practical steps you can take in your efforts to shift toward a healthier lifestyle. The Plant-Based Canada Podcast is an initiative of the group Plant-Based Canada, which aims to educate the public and health professionals on the evidence-based benefits of plant-based whole food nutrition for individual and planetary health. To learn more about the show, visit our website www.plantbasedcanada.org and stay up to date by following us on Instagram and Facebook @plantbasedcanadaorg, and our Plant-based Canada YouTube channel. The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. PBC is not responsible for any errors, omissions, or opinions related to the content stated by the guests interviewed. All information in this podcast is provided "as is", with no guarantee of completeness, accuracy, timeliness or of the conclusions obtained from the use of this information. The podcast should not be considered professional advice. Listeners should seek their own individual healthcare advice as needed.
Plant-Based Canada Podcast
Episode 27: Nicholas Carter on Combating Climate Change with a Diet Change
In this episode of the Plant-Based Canada podcast we interview ecologist and co-founder of PlantBasedData.org, Nicholas Carter. He is the Communications Lead for a Canadian Centre for Climate Services data hub & serves as an advisory board member to several food- and environment-focused organizations.
He's also a science writer on the interconnections between agriculture and planetary health. He completed a Master's degree in Environmental Practice from Royal Roads University, where his research focused on the global greenhouse gas emissions that are attributed to animal agriculture.
Nicolas will be speaking at our upcoming virtual Canadian plant based nutrition conference on may 28th and 29th.
In this episode we discuss:
- How our food systems contribute to carbon and methane emissions
- Water and land use required for animal agriculture
- Environmental runoffs and dead zones
- Calories in versus calories out: why animal agriculture is not an efficient system
- Big meat disinformation campaigns
- The outcome of the COP26 Climate Conference
- The lack of evidence behind the holistic grazing movement
- Alternative farming practices versus traditional
- The impact of industrial fishing on the oceans and sea life
- How a shift to plant-based diets can help ameliorate many environmental issues we face today
Socials/Links:
PlantBasedData.org
Twitter
Instagram
LinkTree
Studies/Articles:
- Food is responsible for 25-42% of all global emissions
- Animal Agriculture's contributions could be as high as 37%
- Animal agriculture & methane
- The key to reducing biodiversity loss
- Today, only 4% of mammals are wild animals, 34% are humans, & 62% are livestock
- Food systems have caused: 70% of biodiversity loss on land, 50% biodiversity loss in water, & 80% global deforestation
- Human impact on oceans
- Tyson has spent double what Exxon has on political campaigns
- Chicken: calories in, calories out
- Livestock exclusion increased abundance and diversity of animals
- A critical review of Allan Savory's grazing method
- Beef cattle use ~60% of the world’s agricultural land but account for less than 2% of global calories & 5% of global protein consumed
- Oxford University: Grazed & Confused
- Beyond Burger water, land, energy usage
This Podcast was hosted and edited by Clinton Stamatovich