You are cordially invited to attend
Conscious Eating: Local, Organic, Plant-Based – What is Truly Sustainable?

Conference Synopsis: Conscious Eating will inform and empower our community on the true nature of sustainable food choices. Food is in our lives every day, but what are the most ethical, environmental and healthy choices to make? Are you sure you know? Experts in the field of sustainable agriculture and eating will answer your questions and help you understand why we need a truly stable global and local food system where we all have access to healthy food, where all are treated with compassion, and where all are well fed.


Saturday, February 18, 2012

Location: University of California, Berkeley, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, 4th Floor

Registration: 8am

Program: 8:30am - 6pm

FREE for students with IDs. $10 all others


Online Registration
Regular Registration: UPC 10th Conference (Conscious Eating) - $10

For free Student Registration: Please email karen@upc-online.org
and remember to bring your student ID to show at the door.

ATTENTION: if you are coming from San Francisco, the Bay Bridge will be closed to westbound traffic the weekend of the conference. Please take BART to the Downtown Berkeley Station on Shattuck Ave. between Allston Way and Addison St. This station is a short 5 block walk from the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, the site of the conference.

 

Speakers:

Karen Davis
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
Ian Elwood, Co-Founder, Oakland Neighbors Opposed to Backyard Slaughter. www.noslaughter.org.

James McWilliams
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.

Richard Oppenlander
Dr. Richard Oppenlander, author of Comfortably Unaware: global depletion and food responsibility (Langdon Street Press 2011). www.ComfortablyUnaware.com.

Lauren Ornelas
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
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
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.

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




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

United Poultry Concerns In Defense of Animals
Berkley Organization for Animal AdvocacyFood Empowerment Project