Vegetarian Food and Lifestyle Festival

To celebrate World Vegetarian Day:

Food and Information Stalls, Films, Speakers.

Speakers

10.30am -11.30am
Nestar Russell, “The Obedience to Authority Experiments and the Consumption of Meat”

11.45am -12.45pm
Dr Aryan Tavakkoli MBBS FRACP, “Our Diet – Leading to a Sustainable Future Or Killing our Planet?”

1.00pm - 2.00pm
Peter Sankoff, Senior Lecturer, Auckland University, Faculty of Law, – “Animal Welfare Law and Our Eating Preferences: Why Going Vegetarian is Essential to Making Animal Welfare Law Work”

2.15pm – 3.15pm
Hans Kriek, Campaign Director, SAFE, “Factory Pig Farming in New Zealand”

3.30pm
Alyn Ware, Global Campaigner for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, “From Personal Choice to Global Imperative: Advocacy for a Sustainable World”

Films

10.30 -10.55am
Truth or Dairy : A humorous & educational look at the vegan lifestyle, produced by the UK Vegan Society.

11.00am -12.10pm
Peaceable Kingdom: At a time when the public is more concerned than ever about the health and environmental problems associated with large-scale factory farming, Peaceable Kingdom explores another angle of this unfolding story.

12.30pm - 1.00pm
Soundbites: Vegan Culinary Delights - two British television personalities invite their friends around for a session of animal-friendly cooking. Something to suit every discerning taste - recipes provided.

1.15pm – 2.30pm
Meat The Truth:
This documentary starts off where Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" ended.
Meat the Truth demonstrates that livestock farming generates more greenhouse gas emissions worldwide than all cars, lorries, trains, boats and planes added together.

2.45pm – 4.05pm
Mad Cowboy - The Documentary: Plain truth from the Cattle Rancher who won’t eat meat. Howard Lyman was a millionaire cattle rancher who went vegan after a medical scare.

Event listed by Eric Wolff

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