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Official Selection, Ceres Food Film Festival 2023. Winner Best Documentary, WILDsound Feedback, Film & Screenplay Festival 2023.

Introducing

A Documentary on Cattle & their Role in Fighting Waste

Reduce, Reuse, Ruminate is a short documentary that highlights the amazing upcycling ability of cattle and their important role in diverting food loss and waste.

Two cows looking into the camera.

Reduce, Reuse, Ruminate

In Canada, 58% of the food we produce is wasted. In the never-ending fight against food waste, there’s an unexpected hero – the humble beef cow.

Beef farmers and ranchers help transform the environmental problem of food loss and waste by feeding their cattle damaged crops and crop by-products not suitable for human consumption – canola meal, soybean hulls, or wheat chaff – upcycling it into high-quality protein for humans.

‘Food waste accounts for 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions.’

Overflowing garbage can with fruits and vegetables.

‘Emissions from municipal landfills represent the 2nd largest source of methane, after fossil fuels.’

About Canadian Cattle Association:

The Canadian Cattle Association (CCA) is the national voice of Canada’s 60,000 beef farms and feedlots. Founded by producers and led by a producer-elected board, CCA works to address issues that concern Canada’s beef producers. The Public and Stakeholder division works to build trust in the way beef cattle are raised in Canada.

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