The Ethical Case for Ending Factory Farming

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Saturday, May 19 | 3:00pm-3:30pm

This talk will cover the devastating impacts of industrial farms – the source of 99% of our animal-based products – on climate change and environmental degradation, workers exploitation, global hunger, and cruelty to animals-other-than-humans. We’ll go over the emergence and rapid growth of industrial agriculture and how we, as humanists, activists, and consumers can mobilize effectively against the agriculture industrial complex

Amy Halpern-Laff

Amy Halpern-Laff is Director, Strategic Partnerships of Factory Farming Awareness Coalition (ffacoalition.org), a nonprofit that educates people on the devastating impacts of industrial agriculture – on the planet, social justice, public health, and animal cruelty. In addition to her work with FFAC, Amy is co-executive director of Ethics in Education Network (ethicsineducation.org) advocating for ethics-centered curricula that instills lifelong habits of rigorous and open-minded ethical inquiry. She also founded and leads Berkeley Coalition for Animals, educating elected officials and advocating for animal rights legislation. Amy earned her JD at Stanford Law School and practiced law and mediation in NY and CT. She pivoted in to education, nonprofit and grassroots campaign leadership, assuming executive and lay leadership roles. A longtime social justice activist and educator, Amy has focused on criminal justice reform, education equity and animal rights.