MEAT THE TRUTH PREMIERE IN NEW YORK, MAY 17TH AT NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY

THE NICOLAAS G. PIERSON FOUNDATION (NGPF) WILL PRESENT THE VERY FIRST
DOCUMENTARY ON LIVESTOCK FARMING?S CONTRIBUTION TO THE EMISSION OF
GREENHOUSE GASES, IN NEW YORK. THE NYC PREMIERE OF MEAT THE TRUTH WILL
BE HELD AT NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY ON MAY 17TH.

The film, presented by the Dutch Party for the Animals? leader
Marianne Thieme, forms an addendum to earlier documentaries on climate
change, which failed to address one of the biggest causes of global
warming. Numerous reports produced by renowned scientists from the
World Watch Institute, the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the
United Nations, the Profetas project and the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC), were translated by researchers at the NGPF
and the Free University Amsterdam into a concise visual document,
which explains the impact of meat consumption on climate change, the
use of natural resources and hunger in the world.

The film acts as an erratum to earlier films on climate change, such
as AL GORE?S AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, which while convincingly drawing
attention to the issue of global warming, failed to mention one of the
most important causes thereof. Meat the Truth demonstrates that
worldwide the livestock industry is a far greater cause of global
warming than all of the cars, trucks, planes and ships added together.
The issues of the impact of livestock farming on water shortages and
the unequal distribution of food resources are also raised in this
documentary.

At the end of the film, practical solutions to tackle climate
change at the level of the individual consumer are presented. The
solutions have been calculated by scientists at the VU University
Amsterdam and make it pertinently clear just how simple it could be to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions in large amounts. Here is just one
example: if all people in the US decided to eat no meat for three days
a week, then they would save almost 300 megatons of greenhouse gas
emissions. This would have a greater impact on the climate than
replacing all US cars with Toyota Prius models. Even if people in the
US didn?t eat meat for just one day a week, that would make a huge
difference. It would save 99.6 megatons of greenhouse gas emissions.
This would save 46 million return flights from New York to Los Angeles
and back from Los Angeles to New York.
The NGPF is the scientific bureau of the Party for the Animals; the
worlds? very first party for ?non-humans? to be represented in
parliament. For the documentary Meat the Truth, the producers filmed
in Washington DC, Norfolk (Virginia), Seattle and Amsterdam. Many
celebrities participated in the making of the film such as Pamela
Anderson, Bill Maher, Emily Deschanel, Tony Denison, James Cromwell,
Elaine Hendrix, Kate Flannery , Debra Wilson Skelton, Joy Lauren, Esai
Morales, Wayne Pacelle, Howard Lyman, and many others. Meat the Truth
was produced by Claudine Everaert and Gertjan Zwanikken of Alalena
Media Productions. The film will be shown in movie theatres and art
house cinemas throughout the world (Amsterdam, New York, Washington
DC, Los Angeles, Beijing, Singapore, Barcelona, Dresden, Sao Paulo and
Brussels) and will then be released on DVD.
The Nicolaas G. Pierson Foundation believes that the film will make a
valuable contribution to the social discussion about a transition to a
more plant-based and thus also a more humane society. The NGPF also
hopes that the film will provide a showcase for prominent scientific
reports, which have thus far proved inaccessible to the general public.

Prior to the screening, the VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE will take place. For
more information: _www.veggieprideparade.org_[1]

MEAT THE TRUTH PREMIERE NEW YORK

DATE: May 17th 2009
SCREENING TIMES: 5pm and 7 pm
LOCATION: New York Film Academy
ADDRESS: 100 E 17th Street, New York, NY
ADMISSION: FREE!RESERVATIONS:
_newyork@meatthetruth.com_[2]

_www.meatthetruth.com_[3]



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[1] http://www.veggieprideparade.org/
[2] mailto:newyork@meatthetruth.com
[3] http://www.meatthetruth.com/