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2 Ontario EcoSchools Get Inspired Webinar 2017 Please share in chat window: 1. Your full name, school, and board. If you are accessing the webinar as a group, please list the names of everyone present and their schools. 2. Where you are located 3. What you hope to learn from today s webinar Trouble Shooting If you have not signed in as a guest, please sign out (close window), clear browser history and sign in as a guest If you cannot hear sound, make sure your speakers are on A grey box (slide selector) should not be visible next to your slide Tech Help : (416) x 7 (write this down)

3 Ontario EcoSchools Get Inspired Webinar 2017: Agriculture, Climate Change, and Meatless Mondays facebook.com/ontarioecoschools

4 Your Hosts Melissa Benner - Facilitator Communications Manager Ontario EcoSchools mbenner@ontarioecoschools.org Gabriel Wildgen - Presenter Gabriel Wildgen, Campaign manager Humane Society International/Canada gwildgen@hsi.org

5 Gabriel Wildgen Campaign Manager

6 Humane Society International: Working to protect all animals.

7 Meat reduction and climate change: Healthier eating for a livable planet About Us Humane Society International is one of the only international animal protection organizations in the world working to protect all animals. PHOTO

8 Why does HSI work on climate change? The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted that without immediate and meaningful action to reverse the warming trend, percent of plant and animal species will be extinct by 2050.

9 HOW OFTEN DO YOU THINK ABOUT HOW MUCH MEAT IMPACTS THE ENVIRONMENT?

10 Meat, Dairy and Eggs VS The Environment

11 Animal Agriculture s Environmental Footprint

12 Animal Protein VS Plant-based Protein

13 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Animal agriculture is responsible for approximately 14.5% of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

14 Deforestation

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16 The Three R s Reduce the amount of meat you eat Refine the animal products you do choose to those of least harm Replace animal products where possible with plant-based alternatives

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19 Meatless Mondays Started by the U.S. government as a resourcesaving measure during World Wars I and II Revived in 2003 in association with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Benefits: Meet the demand for healthier meals Demonstrate the school s commitment to sustainability Spare animals from factory farms

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23 Who is already doing Meatless Mondays? Over 125 K-12 school districts (some of which include over 1,000 individual schools), including: Los Angeles Unified School District (700,000 meals daily) Houston Independent School District (270,000 meals daily) Dallas Independent School District (160,000 meals dail San Diego Unified School District (70,000 meals daily) Detroit Public Schools (45,000 meals daily) The Vancouver School Board is now making Meatless Monday materials available to students. Over 80 universities Over 40 hospitals

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25 Key findings Reduced its purchases of animal products by nearly 30 percent while increasing purchases of better meat from Mindful Meats Reduced the carbon footprint (kg CO 2 -eq) of its entire food service by 14 percent from (0.70 to 0.61kg CO 2 -eq per meal served) Reduced embedded water use by nearly 6 percent saving a total of 7 gallons per meal or a total of 42 million gallons of water per year Saved $42,000 by decreasing the amount spent per meal by 1% Increased purchases of fruits, vegetables and legumes by ~10% Increased student satisfaction with local, regional, fresh and tasty meals Served reduced meat or plant-based meals that met or exceeded USDA meal pattern requirements

26 Financial benefits for schools and parents Many school districts are reporting back an estimated $ $0.20 cost savings per meatless meal offered: Popular Protein Sources in Child Nutrition Programs Commercial pricing per 2 ounce serving in participating Florida schools Beans $ $0.28 Dark & White Meat Chicken, diced or fajitastyle $ $0.52 Beyond Meat Crumbles or Chicken-Style Strips $ $0.42 Vegetarian Chili, 1 cup $0.51 Beef Crumbles $ $0.53 Fish Sticks $ $0.66

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28 Getting Students Involved

29 Meatless Monday in the Classroom For younger students: Eat meat-free at home on Mondays and report about it. Write paragraph about how Meatless Monday helps our health, the environment, and animals. Draw a picture with a caption and labels related to Meatless Monday. Make a meat-free recipe together. Use the coloring pages on the Fruits and Veggies More Matters website for fun ways for students to learn about fruits and vegetables.

30 Meatless Monday in the Classroom For older students Encourage students to eat meat-free at home on Mondays; hold classroom discussions about what types of meals they ve tried, how they feel, and what their family s response has been like. Ask students to do a research assignment about how animal agriculture impacts our health, the environment, and animals. Encourage them to start a meat reduction club at the school; holding events and tabling.

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32 Guest Speakers & Field Trips for Your Area

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35 The Future Looks Bright

36 Animal meat without the animal

37 Learning Resources for Meatless Monday K-5 Gassy Cows a short video made by Animal Planet about the impact meat production has on our planet. Download a host of activities ranging from coloring pages to word searches, puzzles, scrambles, and more on the benefits of eating more fruits and vegetables. Middle School The Meatrix is an interesting and animated take on the hit film The Matrix, and explores our industrial food system in an easy-to-digest way. High School and Older Meatless Monday a three-minute award-winning video produced by The Humane Society of the United States on the WHO, WHAT, HOW, WHY, and WHERE of Meatless Monday Rethinking the Meat Guzzler by The New York Times encourages students to investigate and discuss the environmental impact of factory farms. Food, Inc., an Oscar-nominated documentary, examines our modern food system and how we can all improve it. It s available on Netflix. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer is the true tale of an award-winning novelist investigating the welfare of animals raised for food and the impact it has on the environment. Forks Over Knives, a groundbreaking documentary about the health benefits of meat-free fare.

38 K-12 Toolkit To request a Toolkit, Gabriel Wildgen at gwildgen@hsi.org

39 To join our weekly mailing list, with recipes, plant-based eating news, and social media shares, receive our Meatless Mondays K-12 Toolkit, or to ask any further questions, learn more about chef training, and opportunities to partner with HSI, me, Gabriel Wildgen, at

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43 Deadlines April 21 April 28 Early-bird deadline Enter the draw for a $150 MEC gift card! Complete and submit all portfolio requirements to support your EcoTeam project (and EcoTeam reflection for Platinum schools).

44 Who do I contact for support? 1. Your board representative 2. Other schools, teachers, EcoTeams 3. Ontario EcoSchools: info@ontarioecoschools.org

45 Get Inspired Webinar Series Facing Climate Change with Dianne Saxe, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario April 6 th, 2017 Webinars run from 3:30 5:00pm EST. Register at:

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