CARA Welfare Philippines is invited to the 2nd World Meatless Lunch which will be held on November 28, 2016, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Social Hall of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Visayas, Avenue, Quezon City.
The theme of the event will be “Fight Climate Change, One Plate at a Time.”
Special guests to attend this event, as well as give key remarks, include DENR Secretary Regina Lopez, Balik-Scientist and Chief of CHED research management division, office of planning, research and knowledge management’s Custer Deocaris, breastfeeding advocate Nona Andaya-Castillo, and Dr. Johann Kim T. Manez.
The 1st Green Fork Awards for Culinary Students will also be launched at this event.
Healthy, delicious, and meatless lunch and desserts will be prepared and served by the best vegetarian restaurants in Metro Manila.
The 2nd World Meatless Lunch is organized by Deocaris, Andaya-Castillo, journalists Aries B. Espinosa and Tessa R. Salazar, and raw vegan chef Maria Sonia G. Astudillo.
The 1st World Meatless Lunch was held in 2012, as a response to the urgent call to action of global environment advocates and experts.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has stressed that the livestock sector has become “one of the most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global”.
Feeding animal products to the world’s billions is now taking its toll, say experts. Livestock farming now accounts for the use of 70% of the global freshwater and 38% of the world’s land-use conversion. Some 70% of the Amazon Rainforest, in fact, has already been cleared for grazing and feed crop production.
The “Livestock and Climate Change” published in the World Watch magazine reported that livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of annual worldwide GHG emissions.
This figure was based in the analysis performed by Robert Goodland, a former World Bank Group environmental adviser, with cowriter Jeff Anhang, an environmental specialist at the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corp.