This event will discuss alternative protein sources and investigate the promises and challenges of lab-grown and plant/fungi-based meat as sustainable alternatives to real meat.
Issues to be discussed will include how sustainable these alternative meats are in terms of energetic demands, greenhouse gas emissions, water usage, and land use.
This is a free public event open to all on a first-come-first-served basis and is kindly sponsored by Ninety One.
Programme & Speakers
17:00-18:45: Presentations and Panel Discussion
Professor Sir Charles Godfray FRS Professor of Population Biology and Director of the Oxford Martin School
Dr Ivan Wall Co-Founder and CEO at Quest
Rose Dale, Manor Farm, Chearsley, Organic farming
Jim Laird Co-Founder and CEO at ENOUGH
18:45-19:15: Drinks Reception
Speaker Bios
Professor Sir Charles Godfray FRS
Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food and the cross-disciplinary Livestock, Environment and People Project (LEAP) modelling the global health and environmental impacts of sustainable food scenarios. Professor Godfray is interested in how global food systems will need to change and adapt to the challenges humanity faces, particularly considering sustainable intensification and the relationship between food production, ecosystem services and biodiversity.
Ivan Wall
Dr Ivan Wall is Co-Founder and CEO at Quest.
Rose Dale
Rose Dale runs the 200-acre organic and regenerative Manor Farm, Chearsley, Organic farming.
Jim Laird
Jim Laird has worked in the food industry for 30 years. In 2015, he co-founded ENOUGH to make protein sustainable and “to do something where the impact is bigger than us”. The company aims to grow 1 million tonnes of high-quality protein in the next decade. ENOUGH ferment fungi with natural sugars from grains to make a sustainable protein called ABUNDA. ABUNDA mycoprotein is rich in protein and fibre, highly nutritious, and has an outstanding meaty texture.
Seminar Background
'Conversations in Environmental Sustainability: Beyond Greenwashing' is a termly seminar which brings together leading thinkers and decision-makers from academia, business, government and NGOs to look beyond greenwashing. Each seminar examines a specific issue related to environmental sustainability, exploring how to effectively marry environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals with financial returns, innovation and other business imperatives.
A panel of experts each speak individually before engaging with each other in a panel discussion. This is followed by further conversations over drinks in the College. St Edmund Hall’s intimate and beautiful site provides the setting for the audience of experts and guests to consider honest, solution-based responses to the challenges posed if we are to deliver environmental sustainability.
