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 12: Valerie Trew on Whole-food, Plant-based Nutrition for Children
In this episode we talk with Valerie Trew, the Director at the University of Guelph Child Care and Learning Centre in Guelph, Ontario. Valerie is a Registered Early Childhood Educator with a Master of Arts in Leadership. She also teaches in the Bachelor of Applied Science program at the University of Guelph and Guelph-Humbe applying a lens of social and environmental justice to studies in policy, administration, and leadership.
Valerie views teaching from early learning to post-secondary as a political act and does so with a view to provoke radical social transformation towards a post-colonial world. She has spent 20 years working in children’s services through postsecondary education, regional government, early intervention, and early learning and child care.
In this episode we discuss:
Early childhood education
Whole-food, Plant-based nutrition for children
Valerie’s path to implementing a plant-based menu at the Guelph Child Care and Learning Centre
The importance of teaching children where our food comes from
Putting Indigenous outlooks in perspective
How coloniality and our food systems intersect
Socials:
Twitter
Linkedin
Studies and Resources:
Child Care Food Sustainability Report
Family-focused, plant-based recipes and cookbooks
Plant-based Pediatrician resources
Positive mealtime for child and parent
Veganism and Indigenous perspectives
Veganism and Mi’Kmaw teachings
Margaret Robinson - Indigenous veganism: YouTube lecture, Article
The Honorable Harvest - Robin Kimmerer
This Podcast was hosted and edited by Clinton Stamatovich.