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Yesterday, July 13th, Meat the Truth was screened at the European Commission in Brussels (Belgium). Managing director of the NGPF and project manager of Meat the Truth was invited to introduce the film and answer questions of the audience afterwards.

The Environment Sub-Committee (ESC) for the European Commission Stagiaires organized the evenening, after seeing Meat the Truth at the United Nations in Brussels on May 26th. Organiser Adrien Lantieri: “We are highly impressed by the quality and clarity of the message delivered, filling the huge gap left previous documentaries, furthered by your enthusiastic and motivational talk at the end of the screening. We easily convinced other sub-committee members to the utmost necessity of screening MEAT THE TRUTH to stagiaires. Indeed, the ESC’s mandate is two fold: raising awareness amongst the 600 fellow trainees and fostering a sustainable future for the EU. A screening of the movie would perfectly achieve both aims”.

On June 2nd, the Nicolaas G. Pierson Foundation will release English-written, “Meat the Truth, Essays on Livestock Production, Sustainability and Climate Change”. The book Meat The Truth is the continuation of the same titled documentary that was presented in London in 2008, which is now available in 13 languages and 16 countries. Meat the Truth was the first documentary to address the link between livestock farming and greenhouse gas emissions.

The anthology Meat the Truth, Essays on Livestock Production, Sustainability and Climate Change, contains contributions from many scientists, such as Geoff Russell, John Powles, Every Stehfest, Danielle Nierenberg, Barry Brook and Harry Aiking. Researchers from Wageningen UR, who reviewed the calculations of the film, by request of Dutch Minister Verburg and Marianne Thieme, also contributed to the book. Opinion leaders like Mark Bittman (New York Times), Tobias Leenaert (EVA) and Dirk Jan Verdonk have also delivered a contribution to the book.

The DVD of the English spoken version of the documentary Meat the Truth is included in the book. Meat the Truth marks the shift in thinking taking place in relation to the production of animal protein. Al Gore never mentioned livestock farming in his An Inconvenient Truth but now he is very much in favor of reducing meat, as is Herman Wijffels and 700 scientists who signed “call for a sustainable livestock” document, on the initiative of Roos Vonk.

The Nicolaas G. Pierson Foundation wants to contribute to the contribution to the social debate about the consumption of animal protein in relation to the climate problem.

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Meat the Truth, Essays on Livestock Production, Sustainability and Climate Change
Paperback – 240 pages – ISBN 978-94-90034-03-0 – price € 19,95 – Nicolaas G. Pierson Foundation

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Almost 200 people attended the screening of Meat the Truth on Thursday the 17th of December during the climate summit in Copenhagen. The climate film screened at the Klimaforum09, the people’s climate summit, and was greeted by the audience with great interest. The film addresses the enormous impact of livestock farming on global warming, a fact that is often ignored by policymakers and therefore an important message to stress during this summit. Marianne Thieme was present to answer questions from the audience after the screening, which was highly appreciated.