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Elizabeth

16 December 2011

You are cordially invited to attend
United Poultry Concerns’ Tenth Annual Conference
On the topic of

Conference Hosts: United Poultry Concerns, In Defense of Animals,
Food Empowerment Project, & Berkeley Organization for Animal Advocacy

Conference Synopsis: Conscious Eating will inform and empower our community about the true nature of sustainable food choices. There’s a growing awareness of food and its relationship to our planet, our communities, our health, and the animals who share our planet. As we face unprecedented global challenges from climate change to food deserts, we realize that agriculture plays a critical role in these challenges and that it is our responsibility to make informed and conscious choices for ourselves, our local and global community, and the planet. A focus of discussion will be Locavorism and issues surrounding urban backyard animal keeping as an “alternative” to factory farming.

Location: University of California, Berkeley

Date: Saturday, February 18, 2012

Registration: 8am

Program: 8:30am - 6pm

Conference Lecture Rooms: Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, 4^th Floor

Registration: FREE for students with IDs. $10 all others

Food: Continental breakfast, Lunch for all participants, Dinner for speakers

Speakers:

Karen Davis, PhD, President, United Poultry Concerns, author of Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry (Book Publishing Company 2009). www.upc-online.org.

Ian Elwood, Director, Oakland Neighbors Opposed to Backyard Slaughter. www.noslaughter.org.

James McWilliams, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Texas State University, author of Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly (Back Bay Books 2009). www.theatlantic.com/james-mcwilliams.

Dr. Richard Oppenlander, author of Comfortably Unaware: Global Depletion and Food Responsibility (Langdon Street Press 2011). www.ComfortablyUnaware.com.

Lauren Ornelas, Executive Director, Food Empowerment Project, a nonprofit organization that seeks to create a more just and sustainable world by recognizing the power of one’s food choices. www.foodispower.org.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, Founder of The Compassionate Cook, educator dedicated to empowering people to make informed food choices & debunking myths about veganism and animal rights. Author of The Joy of Vegan Baking, Vegan Table, and Color Me Vegan. www.compassionatecooks.com.

Vasile Stanescu, PhD candidate, Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University. Author of “The Myth of Sustainable Meat and the Danger of the Local,” Critical Theory and Animal Liberation (Rowman & Littlefield 2011). www.stanford.edu/dept/MTL/cgi-bin/drupal/person/vasile-stanescu.

Closing Panel Moderator: Hope Bohanec, Grassroots Campaign Director, In Defense of Animals. www.idausa.org.

United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl.
Don't just switch from beef to chicken. Go Vegan.
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