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Just to throw something into this debate - surely there isn't any question over whether you can be vegetarian and healthy?! I thought that there was plenty of evidence for this. On the evolution issue there was a fascinating talk at the British Council Darwin's Living Legacy Conference in Egypt by Professor Richard Wrangham re evolution and cooked foods - Wrangham is at Harvard University, USA his latest book is called Catching Fire: How cooking made us human, Profile books Sept 2009. Take a look - not strictly about vegetarianism but about evolution and diet etc. Sallie Sallie Robins Darwin's Living Legacy - an international conference on evolution and society Nov 14-16 2009, Egypt http://darwin.britishcouncil.org/posts/darwin-s-living-legacy-an-internation al-conference-on-evolution-and-society-14-16-november SciDevNet - providing science and technology information that inspires informs and impacts on global development. New partnership opportunities now available. <http://www.scidev.net> www.scidev.net srPR 14 Shannon Court Dynevor Road London N16 0DD 020 7249 4858 07733 330344 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Robinson Sent: 18 November 2009 08:36 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Do you know anyone that can talk about diet? Oh dear oh dear. That's a bit limp of him. Nicholas Stern should put his diet where his mouth is. Richard Richard Robinson BRIGHTON SCIENCE FESTIVAL Feb 13-28th, 2010 www.BrightonScience.com On 18 Nov 2009, at 08:12, Bob Ward wrote: Dear Gemma (and other psci-commers), It sounds like an interesting project. However, I think your reference to "the recent news that we should adopt a vegetarian diet in order to help save the planet" may be in relation to the misleading headline from the front page of 'The Times' a couple of weeks ago (and subsequent reports) which misrepresented comments from Nicholas Stern (who is chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment). He didn't urge people to become vegetarian (he isn't a vegetarian himself) - he just stated that people should be aware of the emissions involved in the production of food and pointed out that in general a vegetarian diet involves the emission of less greenhouse gas than a typical meat diet. You may find it useful to read this letter from Lord Stern which rebutted the article in 'The Times'. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article6894348.ece Good luck with your project! Bob Bob Ward Policy and Communications Director Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham Tel. +44 (0) 20 7106 1236 Mob. +44 (0) 7811 320346 _____ From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gemma Hebden Sent: 17 November 2009 19:36 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [PSCI-COM] Do you know anyone that can talk about diet? Dear all I'm currently producing a short film documentary for my 3rd year science communication project, which asks whether we can remove meat from a human diet and still remain healthy. In light of the recent news that we should adopt a vegetarian diet in order to help save the planet, I would like to interview an expert on whether this is sensible from an evolutionary basis. I want to ask questions such as 'have we evolved to eat meat? Can we remove it from our diets and remain healthy, and what, if anything, would we need to supplement our diets with'?. I would only need 15 minutes, am happy to work round schedules and will travel to the interviewee. Any suggestions gratefully received! Thank you! Gemma _____ View your other email accounts from your Hotmail inbox. Add them now. <http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/186394592/direct/01/> ********************************************************************** 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] 4. 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