Stuart-gillespie
Stuart Gillespie
Shireen-kassam
Shireen Kassam
David-clough
David Clough
Joy-carter
Joy Carter

A Shopping List for Life: Eating for People, Animals and Planet

Stuart Gillespie, Shireen Kassam and David Clough chaired by Joy Carter

Saturday, 29 March 2025

6:00pm

1 hour

Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre

£8 - £15

Former food policy researcher Dr Stuart Gillespie, consultant haematologist Dr Shireen Kassam and theologist Dr David Clough explore how we can choose foods that optimise our own health, provide good lives for animals both wild and farmed, minimise greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants, enrich our soils and biodiversity, and can be beneficial for farmers across the world.

Gillespie has worked for a variety of UN agencies and the International Food Policy Research Institute. He is author of Food Fight: from Plunder and Profit to People and Planet in which he reimagines our global food system and suggests a sustainable, equitable, and healthy food future. Kassam is a consultant haematologist, certified lifestyle medicine physician and visiting professor of plant-based nutrition. She is founder of Plant-Based Health Professionals UK and co-author of Eating Plant-Based, Scientific Answers to Your Nutrition Questions. Clough is chair of theology and applied sciences at the University of Aberdeen and author of the two-volume monograph On Animals, exploring the place of non-human animals in Christian theology and ethics. He is co-founder of CreatureKind, which aims to transform Christian attitudes and practices toward animals, and launched the DefaultVeg campaign, which aims to nudge consumers towards plant-based options.

Discussions are chaired by Joy Carter, former vice-chancellor of the University of Winchester and a co-chair of the UK Climate Commission for Higher Education and Further Education.

In association with Compassion in World Farming.

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The Telegraph Festival media partner University of Oxford European Union Supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the UK Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Oxford Mathematics Spanish Embassy The Spanish Embassy: supporters of the programme of Spanish literature and culture Cervantes Institute, London The Cervantes Institute, London Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Compassion in World Farming Pasture to Plate Oxford Business College Where learning meets opportunity: education partners of the festival Old Bank Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Old Parsonage Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Oxford Brookes University Oxford International Centre for Publishing Critchleys Accountants to the festival Confucius Institute Voltaire Foundation Felicity Bryan Associates Goldmoney Properties Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner. Celebrating 25 years in Europe in 2024 Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Jewish Book Week Partner of Oxford Literary Festival Jim Mellon Miles Young Tim and Marion Stevenson Martin and Elise Becket Smith Ian and Carol Sellars David Isaac Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Other donors Yale University Press London New College New College founded 1379 Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival. Founded 1314 Worcester College Worcester College founded 1714 Lincoln College Lincoln College founded 1427 Trinity College Trinity College founded 1555 Magdalen College Magdalen College founded 1458 Reuben College Reuben College founded in 2019 Pusey House Founded 1884 Brasenose College Brasenose College founded in 1512 New Dutch Writing Human Ecology Project MACROVegan Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily Paul Bloomfield Ltd University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office The Sheldonian Theatre Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Oxford University Images Oxford University Images CAV Oxford The Litmus Partnership Schoolreaders Windrush Group The Oxford Times BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner Conference Oxford Ox in a Box OX magazine