Join Farm Sanctuary as they bring together more than 30 world-renowned experts from the environmental, public health, and animal welfare movements for their first-ever National Conference to End Factory Farming: For Health, Environment and Farm Animals.
Unique in its exclusive focus on factory farming and the problems surrounding the industry, the conference will explore factory farming’s detrimental effects on human health, animal welfare and our environment through a diverse program of speakers from each of these movements. Designed to facilitate collaboration between advocacy movements, both professionals and concerned individuals will be empowered with the opportunity to learn, network and build solutions for change.
WHAT: National Conference to End Factory Farming: For Health, Environment and Farm Animals
WHEN: October 27-29, 2011
WHERE: Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel in Arlington, VA
WHO:
- U.S. Congressman James P. Moran (D-VA)
- John Mackey; Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Whole Foods Market
- Elizabeth Kucinich; Director of Government Affairs for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
- Wenonah Hauter; Executive Director, Food and Water Watch
- Dr. T. Colin Campbell; World’s leading diet and disease researcher and best-selling author of “The China Study”
- Bryan Walsh; TIME Magazine Senior Writer and Columnist
- Gene Baur; Farm Sanctuary President and Co-Founder
- Dr. Joel Fuhrman; Board–certified family physician, best-selling author, and one of the country’s leading nutritional researchers
- Wayne Pacelle; HSUS President and CEO
- Richard Wood; Chair of Keep Antibiotics Working Coalition
- Dr. Michael Greger; Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at HSUS
- Jonathan Balcombe; Animal behavior expert and best-selling author of Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good and Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals
- Dr. John Ikerd; Professor emeritus of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri, Columbia
- Lester Friedlander; Former USDA slaughterhouse inspector
- Dr. Noam Mohr; Adjunct professor of Physics at New York University
HIGHLIGHTS: The conference program features a Thursday night welcome reception, plenary sessions and panel discussions on Friday and Saturday, and a Friday banquet dinner. Panels will cover a wide range of factory farming-related topics, including climate change, public health risks, the emotional lives of farm animals, and the economics of industrial animal agriculture. There will also be Q&A sessions, author book signings and a full exhibit hall.
REGISTRATION: For more information and to register, pplease visit the National Conference to End Factory Farming: For Health, Environment and Farm Animals web site. Cost is $150 per person.
About Farm Sanctuary
Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization, promotes legislative, policy, and individual lifestyle changes to help farm animals. Farm Sanctuary’s shelters in New York and California provide lifelong care for nearly 1,000 rescued farm animals. For more information, please visit the Farm Sanctuary web site.
