‘Food Matters’ is a series of four talks designed to inform, stimulate, and even provoke us to re-think assumptions about our diets, our food systems, and how we got to where we are.
This Sunday, November 3, Phil Gregory will kick off the ‘Food Matters’ series with The Future of Food: Nature or Technology? Dr. Gregory’s presentation will challenge some of the current ideas about our food systems, our dietary needs, and the role of livestock in the environmental crises.
He’ll challenge what he considers solution ‘myths’, question who controls the narratives around food, and report on a current Alberta study about grazing and carbon sequestration.
On Sunday, November 17, Hasan Hutchinson’s talk, Making the Canada Food Guide - Behind the Scenes, will open the door on how the Guide’s influential recommendations are reached.
Is it all about the science or are there other influences? How do the current recommendations compare with past ones and with food guides in other countries?
Dr. Hutchinson, former federal Director General, Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion, will talk about the behind-the-scenes pressures, difficulties and science in the making of the current Canada Food Guide.
The remaining two talks are coming in 2025: January 19 with Dr. Charles McNeill, Innovative Solutions to the Global Food System: Protecting the Climate and Biosphere; and February 9, with Dr. Hyunjoo Lee, Your Everyday Meal: Recipes for Health and the Environment.
The series is presented by Bowen Island Food Resilience Society and Bowen Island Public Library. Each talk starts at 1:30 pm, drop-in at the Library Annex. Find out more at bipl.ca/food
