Peace Begins in the Kitchen......Go Vegan!!
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Presenters Don Barnes is the founder and owner of Affordable Cat Fence www.catfence.com in San Antonio, Texas. He has spent over 25 years in many areas of AR activism at both the national and grassroots levels. He was the Wash. D C representative for the National Anti-Vivisection Society for 10 years and the Southern Field Rep. for the Animal Protection Institute. Don has been seen and heard on hundreds of tv and radio programs and he has written numerous articles for animal liberation. He was a consultant on the film "Project X". Don was an animal researcher in the 70's but he is now a proud vegan for over 25 years.
Lorri Bauston is considered a “pioneer” of the farmed animal sanctuary movement. In 1986, Lorri co-founded Farm Sanctuary, which opened the country’s first shelter for farmed animals. For 18 years, she directed the group’s shelter and fundraising efforts, and served as Executive Director. Lorri’s work has been featured in hundreds of newspaper, television and radio news stories. In 2005, Lorri formed a new nonprofit organization, Animal Acres, and opened the Los Angeles farmed animal sanctuary and compassionate living center. Through her farm animal sanctuary efforts, Lorri has directly saved thousands of animals from the cruelties of factory farming and brought national attention to the plight of animals used for “food production”. Chas Chiodo is the founder /director of VegEvents, an educational/activist organization with a vegan perspective. Chas organizes the annual Compassion for Animals Action Symposium. VegEvents promotes the vegan lifestyle through workshops, seminars, cooking demonstrations, catering and concession booths at festivals. Chas has been a vegan activist since 1975 and involved with the AR movement since 1980. Chas volunteered with PETA when they were formed in the early 80's, one of their first employees and their first vegan outreach coordinator. VegEvents was founded in 1987 and has been involved in many projects too numerous to list here. George Eisman, RD is considered one of the nation's foremost educators on vegetarian nutrition. He has served as a faculty member in Dietetics and Nutrition at several universities and colleges and created the first accredited program in Vegetarian Studies. He has spoken at numerous events and conferences and is the author of two books, The Most Noble Diet (1994) and A Basic Course in Vegetarian and Vegan Nutrition (2003).
Susan Hargreaves is a 27-year veteran of the Humane and Environmental movement. Susan is the founder of humaneeducatorsreachingout.com and KidsHelpAnimals.com. She was the director of Humane Education at the Wildlife Care Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and served as Chairperson for EarthSave International's Miami Chapter. Susan initiated and created the first humane and environmental resource kit distributed to high schools and the first interactive humane education plays for elementary schools. Susan was President of ARK-II, the Canadian Animal Rights network, she also hosted and piloted the first radio series in Toronto, Canada, Animal Voices, dedicated to animal protection, as well as hosting a radio programs series in South Florida. David Hoch is a long-time professor of law and ethics who has taught an animal rights seminar at the University of Florida law school for the past six years and has written, spoken about and participated in animal rights and environmental politics for many years. He will speak on recent developments in the long-running and arguably unconstitutional campaign by the corporate-influenced government to repress and punish animal activists and discredit the causes they promote. Dan Mathews is PETA’s notorious Senior VP in charge of Campaigns, Dan has created many controversial and memorable projects, including the legendary Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur campaign. He also led a raid on Calvin Klein’s office which resulted in CK’s discontinuing the use of fur, and pressured Gillette to stop testing on animals by showing footage of those experiments in the company cafeteria. He has recruited stars such as Paul McCartney, Pamela Anderson, Pink and Chrissie Hynde to promote PETA’s causes, and has written a highly praised book about his remarkable life and devotion to animal rights, entitled “Committed: A Rabble-Rouser’s Memoir.” Erica Meier is the executive director of Compassion Over Killing , a nonprofit animal advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. Since 1995, COK has worked to end the abuse of animals in agriculture through undercover investigations, public outreach, litigation, and other advocacy programs. Before working at COK, Erica spent four years as an animal control officer in Washington, D.C., rescuing sick, injured, and homeless animals as well as enforcing animal protection laws. To learn about COK’s campaigns, visit www.cok.net. Heart Phoenix and her family are celebrating their 30th anniversary as vegans. She raised five children and her very beautiful grandsons continue to exemplify the benefits of an animal free diet and life path. Heart serves on the Board of The Peace Alliance, a national organization working to pass national legislation that will promote a Culture of Peace. Paul Shapiro is the senior director of the Factory Farming Campaign at the Humane Society of the United States. He has spearheaded numerous successful campaigns to improve the plight of farm animals, most notably several campaigns to work with retailers to stop selling battery cage eggs. He also played a significant role in the successful 2006 Arizona ballot initiative to ban the confinement of calves in veal crates and breeding pigs in gestation crates. Paul is also the founder and former campaigns director for Compassion Over Killing, where he helped lead campaigns such as the successful effort to end the use of the misleading “Animal Care Certified” logo on battery cage egg cartons nationwide. At Compassion Over Killing, Paul worked also as a farm animal cruelty investigator, primarily documenting conditions on egg and broiler factory farms, livestock auctions and slaughter plants. RAE SIKORA, founder and director of Simply Enough, supporting individuals and groups in creating peaceful community that respects all Life; co-created the nations first humane education certification and Masters programs; her innovative critical thinking programs have redefined personal power and the ability of one person to make a difference in the world; has been leading programs internationally for 25 years on compassionate living and all forms of non-violence, including consumerism, advertising / media influences, communication, conflict resolution, animal rights / awareness, and environmental awareness / responsibility |
