Each year the average North American ingests well over two hundred pounds of animal protein. Meanwhile the global appetite for meat has increased dramatically. But feeding our meat addiction comes at tremendous cost. Mainting our current level of consumption is ecologically impossible in the longterm and undermines our personal health and community well-being. High Steaks documents the disastrous consequences of modern large-scale industrial meat production and excessive consumption, including: <ul>
<li>The loss of vast tracts of arable land and fresh water to intensive livestock production </li>
<li>Increased pollution, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, and accelerating climate change </li>
<li>The environmental and health impacts of too much animal fat, and of antibiotics and other chemicals in our food.</li>
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Timely and compelling, this powerful book offers a modest, commonsense approach to a serious problem, suggesting strategies for all of us to cut back on our consumption of animal products and ensure that the meat we do consume is produced in a sustainable, ecologically responsible manner. At the same time, High Steaks describes progressive food policy shifts that will discourage factory farming and encourage people to eat in ways that support ecosystems and personal health. Eleanor Boyle has been teaching and writing for twenty-five years, with a focus on food systems and their social, environmental, and health consequences. As well as working with organizations aiming for better food policy, she holds an MSc in food policy and is an instructor at the Centre for Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.

High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Boyle, Eleanor

Diets & Weight Loss

New Society Publishers

Faced with a climate crisis, can people commit to action? Faced with evidence that our agriculture and our diets fuel that crisis-producing significant greenhouse gases-can we muster the vision to produce and consume food differently? Transforming food systems to meet a threat has been done before, as revealed in Mobilize Food! Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today. The book recounts the dramatic story of World War II Britain, its Ministry of Food, and its millions of citizens who fought for their democracy partly by growing more, wasting less, and sharing scarce foods equitably so that everyone could feed themselves during an emergency and beyond. Highly relevant to today as we fight our battles for healthy environments and a liveable global climate, Mobilize Food! offers strategies for action and hope in our time. It shows that entire populations can remake food systems to be sustainable, healthy, and fair-and that just as people in the past were capable of greatness, so are we.

Mobilize Food!: Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

FriesenPress

On campuses today, there is not only increased interest in effective teaching, but increased expectations from administrators, other faculty, and students, that instructors will teach well. Essentials of College and University Teaching meets this growing need by providing a comprehensive but succinct handbook on all important aspects of post-secondary teaching. The book is intended for instructors, professors, and graduate students at colleges and universities. It will be especially helpful both to new and experienced faculty. It will appeal to individuals in all disciplines; the authors’ ideas apply to the instruction of any topic from philosophy to engineering. Boyle and Rothstein have employed examples from a wide range of disciplines, to make this point and to appeal to a broad readership.

Essentials of College and University Teaching: A Practical Guide

Rothstein, Harley

New Forums Pr

Effective College and University Teaching

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Granville Island Pub

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