Lyman vs. Niman: Can You Be a ‘Good Environmentalist’ and Still Eat Meat?

[Guest guest]

Earth Island Presents … and VegNews Magazine

invite you to attend

 

Lyman vs. Niman:

Can You Be a `Good Environmentalist' and Still Eat Meat?

 

Thursday, May 20, 2010

7:00 PM (Doors open @ 6:30)

 

Richard & Rhoda Goldman Theater

The David Brower Center

2150 Allston Way in Berkeley

 

$10 - $20 Suggested Donation

 

At least since the publication of Diet for a Small Planet, the environmentally

conscious have worried about the impacts of eating meat.

 

Raising livestock is resource-intensive, often polluting, and, as we are

beginning to learn, a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. It's

also one of the ways we've fed ourselves for millennia. So is there an

ecologically sustainable way to eat meat?

 

At this public debate, Ari Derfel, co-founder of Gather restaurant in Berkeley

will moderate a conversation with Nicolette Hahn Niman — a Marin rancher and

author of The Righteous Porkchop — who will argue that there is and Howard Lyman

— the author of Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat

Meat — who will disagree.

 

Please join us for what promises to be a lively and provocative conversation on

an issue most of us face three times a day!

 

For more information: www.earthisland.org/events

Location:

Brower Center is located in downtown Berkeley across from the UC Berkeley campus

one block from BART and AC Transit connections.

Parking available at Oxford Garage (2161 Kittredge, under Brower Center).