Environment Forum November 2009 - Can red meat be green?

In November 2009 MLA brought together leading environmental experts to discuss the role of livestock farming and sustainability in feeding a growing population.

 School students and key stakeholders were given the opportunity to ask the high profile panellists on the topic: Can red meat be green? The panellists included:

• Professor Tim Flannery, Chair, Copenhagen Climate Council, Professor Macquarie University
• Dr Nick Costa, Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, Murdoch University
• Corey Watts, Regional Projects Manager, The Climate Institute
• Beverly Henry, Manager Environment, Climate Change and Sustainability
• Sam Archer, Livestock Producer

The format was a panel discussion with the speakers providing their views followed by a question and answer session during which students posed their own questions.

The forum was chaired by Chris Russell, regular judge on the ABC TV show, The New Inventors.

Read the media release about the event