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Of the four sessions the Congress will have, the first one will be focused on environmental sustainability, subject that will be addressed by Professor Frank Mitloehner, from the University of California, Davis, in the United States, who has been hired as advisor by the National Meat Institute.
Besides, Walter Oyhantcabal, advisor of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, will present the view from public policies related to mitigation strategies and adjustment to climate change, focusing on the livestock sector.
Jorge Sawchick, from the National Agricultural Research Institute, will refer to agricultural models and soil sustainability, for which pastures and animals play an important role in order to improve sustainability of agricultural growth in the most marginal areas.
In that sense, the 6th edition of From Farm to Table will once again be "an ambience for analysis and discussion" of the subjects that matter to livestock competitiveness.
Discussion on methane emissions of livestock and their contribution to global warming, and therefore, to climate change and variability, will be approached at global level.
FAO's publication "Livestock's long shadow" estimates that livestock accounts for 18% of greenhouse effect gases, even more than transport.
This information has even been supported by artists such as Paul Mc Cartney, encouraging the reduction of meat and milk consumption, and reaching advertising campaigns named "Less Meat = Less Heat".
Prof. Frank Mitloehner from UC Davis has been very critical of this scientific information and has prepared his own information to point out errors in the estimates presented in the abovementioned publication.
The debate spread through global communication means and within the scientific environment has been focused on Frank Mitloehner's opinion about Paul Mc Cartney's advertising and the position of the UN Panel on Climate Change, which states that these actions, regardless of their allegedly good intentions, ignore scientific information available on the issue, and that it is a mistake to believe that by consuming less meat and milk, global warming will be stopped.
