Animals As Commodities
Issues in Environmental Degradation, Nutrition, Ethics, and Public Health
A Film and Lecture Series - Free and Open to the Public
Sustainable Table
UNH MUB Theater I, Monday, March 30, 7:00 PM
Over nine months, Mischa Hedges and Digital Sense Productions traveled the West coast to learn more about our food system. During production, he found that the standard methods of producing food do not take environmental or human health costs into consideration. He also explored the many alternatives to the current agricultural system. Sustainable Table includes interviews with: Howard Lyman: Author of "Mad Cowboy", Kenneth Williams: Champion Vegan Bodybuilder, Fred Kirschenmann, PhD: Fellow, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Marc Grossman: Spokesman for United Farm Workers, Actors/activists Ed Begley, Jr., James Cromwell and many more. 52 min/DVD
Coming Home to Roost:
Bird Flu and Other Emerging Infectious Diseases
UNH MUB Theater I, Monday, April 13, 7:00 PM
From age-old scourges such as smallpox and tuberculosis to emerging threats like AIDS and SARS, our interactions with animals have always played a pivotal role as a source of human disease. The influenza virus has existed for millions of years as an innocuous intestinal virus of wild ducks. What turned a harmless waterborne duck virus into a human mass killer? Michael Greger, M.D., is Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at the Humane Society of the United States. As an internationally recognized lecturer on public health issues, he has presented at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the Bird Flu Summit. He is a graduate of Cornell University School of Agriculture and Tufts University School of Medicine. 1 hr/DVD
An Inconvenient Food
The Link Between Animal Agriculture and Global Warming
UNH MUB, Strafford Room, Monday, April 20, 7:00 PM
Based on the United Nations' Food and Agriculture report, "Livestock's Long Shadow", this PowerPoint addresses specific aspects of animal agriculture and how each activity contributes to the production of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane. It also covers the environmental effects of animal agriculture on soil and water.
Presentation by Louisa Dell'Amico 1 hr.
A Delicate Balance - the truth UNH MUB Theater II, Monday, April 27, 7:00 PM
Producer Aaron Scheibner from Australia will be at the screening to discuss his documentary
A Delicate Balance documents the latest discoveries of some of the most prominent experts on nutrition in the world. Over 50 years of research is skillfully woven into what feels like a detective unraveling the mysteries behind the disease epidemic which has struck affluent countries with a vengeance - disease has been escalating over the last 50 years resulting in 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women being diagnosed with cancer.
Featuring Neal Barnard, MD., founder of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and Associate Adjunct Professor at George Washington University; T. Colin Campbell , Ph.D., Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University and co-author of The China Studies; David Pimentel, Professor Emeritus, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University; Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University; Walter Willett, M.D., Dr PH Frederick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health. 84 min/DVD
The Animals Film
UNH MUB Theater I, Monday, May 4, 7:00 PM
Said Alan Brien of THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) -
"The most impressive film maudit, possibly too hot to handle, is Victor Schonfeld's The Animals Film, a polemical onslaught, stuffed with footage never before shown, and a wealth of newly-shot material often taken undercover, which documents...mankind's degradation, exploitation, and often pointless torture, of the creatures who share our planet.
He proves, beyond contradiction, that this behavior is not just random or personal but part of our organized society, with drug companies, government departments, scientists, military authorities, factory farmers, university research laboratories, for their own selfish ends, for profit in money or prestige." Narrated by Academy Award Winner Julie Christie. 25th anniversary edition. 120 min/DVD
Sponsored by: UNH Animal Rights Alliance, New Hampshire Animal Rights League
For more information, call Louisa Dell’Amico at 859-7306,