Abolitionist Education: Transcending the Three Dimension Sustainability Perspective
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Consistent data reveal that the livestock production chain is at the core of social and environmental impacts, besides raising ethical concerns regarding human and nonhuman animals. To tackle this, a critical environmental education, focused on animal abolitionism is proposed. The debate encompasses the inclusion of ethics as a sustainability dimension.
Vegan World Domination – One Business at a Time
Presenter: Katrina Fox
Making it as easy as possible for the masses to eschew animal products from their lives is an important role in the animal rights, health and environmental activism movements. Find out vegan entrepreneurs’ secrets of success and how to start and grow your own ethical, advocacy-based business.
Talk title: ANIMALS' INNER LIVES: Notes from a Vegan Biologist
From optimistic starlings, to dogs who object to unfair treatment, animals lead lives of acute sensitivity, awareness, and virtue. Against this backdrop, our own behavior toward animals needs a major overhaul.
Talk: Running Out of Time
Veteran ultra-endurance runners Janette Murray-Wakelin and Alan Murray, they have proved beyond any doubt that living a raw, vegan conscious lifestyle results in optimal health where physically, mentally and emotionally, anything is achievable. They will inspire you to make the positive changes in your life that you like to make.
“Beyond Veganism. . . . From Ethical consumption to Ahimsan Character”
Summary:
Philip Wollen describes how our attitudes towards activism, literature, science are more than vocations. They are markers which describe our character. He uses Occam’s Razor, named after the 14th Century Jesuit, to show that “When faced with a number of alternative solutions to a problem, the simplest solution is the best”.
He concludes that “Veganism is the New Swiss Army Knife for a Sustainable and Ethical Future”. . . . .one instrument solves our Environmental, Health, Economic, Ethical and Resource challenges.
Mark Doneddu Tall Title: Is the Vegan Diet the Real Paleo Diet?
Few subjects generate the level of controversy as there is with diet. Mark in his talk will answer questions such as:
What did ancient people eat and what do most native people's eat?
What causes food addictions and how can you use this knowledge to your advantage?Where are highest Vitamin B12 deficiencies found and why?
When does Vitamin D deficiency occur and why do plant based diets help?
Who loses more weight – the high carb or the low carb dieters?
Why is a plant based diet is closest to the diet of ancient man?How can plant foods provide the best sources of omega3 oils?
Billy Simmonds first stepped on stage as a bodybuilder in 2007, and has since gone on to win competitions internationally and turned professional. Many people in society do not associate strength with a vegan diet. Billy Simmonds shatters that myth as he demonstrates how he has achieved all that he has on a plant based diet.
Title: What to say when you don’t know everything
What conversational skills must you refine in order to confidently speak out about veganism without getting frustrated or tongue-tied when you don’t have all the facts to hand?
Title: Positive Psychology and Vegetarianism: Exploring the Connections
Positive Psychology is a proactive approach to mental health which focuses on people’s strengths and on what is going well in people’s lives, rather than on their weaknesses and problems. The Melbourne area is home to Geelong Grammar School, perhaps the Education world’s top practitioner of Positive Psychology. This presentation begins by explaining Positive Psychology and then explores connections between Positive Psychology and vegetarianism. These connections include: (1) in both, people take control of their lives to promote positive developments; (2) in both, people show gratitude to others; (3) in both, people exercise empathy and perform acts of kindness for others.
Talkd Title: How to fix almost everything
How to fix almost everything…by changing your diet. One of the top reasons why people change their diet is to lessen their impact on the environment. What are those impacts?
Amazon Rainforest Destruction and Cattle Rearing
About 20% of the Amazon Rainforest was already destroyed. 80% of the already destroyed area is used by cattle rearing and soy (to feed animals for food). Some 6,000 km2 (about 1/5 of the territory of Belgium or about 1/12 times the size of UAE) are fired every year. The emissions coming from fire and cattle rearing in this region are more important than all emissions coming from big cities and transportation. Among other problems we are losing our big biodiversity (1/3 of world species) without even knowing it all. To mitigate the environmental and social impacts on Amazon Forest we need necessarily to tackle meat consumption issue.
Mark Pearson Topic for Speech: The Spectrum between Animal Welfare, Wellbeing and Rights
