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Monday, March 30, 2009
VEGAN conference

Here's an email I just received from the Vegan community about two upcoming lectures.

Factory Farming  Impacts Panel: April 1, 2009; 6:30-8:30pmSilverman 240APenn Law School (Sansom St entrance btwn 34th & 35th)PHILADELPHIA, PA (April) –  Penn Law’s Animal Law Project presents: Factory Farming Impacts Panel.      This panel will discuss the negative effects factory farming has on animals, the environment, and human rights. It explores the interconnections between the three areas of concerns, and explains how to work against factory farming from three different angles, as well as the obstacles to doing so. The panelists are Josh Balk, Outreach Coordinator for the Humane Society of the United States’ Factory Farming Campaign, Jillian Gladstone, Advocacy and Outreach Coordinator for Waterkeeper Alliance, and Art Read, General Counsel to Friends of Farmworkers.    Factory farms, also known as Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), are intensive livestock operations designed to produce the most animal food in the shortest amount of time and at the lowest cost.    Over a billion land animals are raised in the United States every year, and the vast majority of them are kept on factory farms in harsh, abusive conditions that subject them to overcrowding, neglect, stress , grotesque selective breeding , and growth-promoting antibiotics. In addition, intensive livestock and poultry farms are increasingly becoming acknowledged as a huge pollution problem due to the massive amounts of animal waste produced in concentrated areas. There are also significant human rights issues documented, as fast line speeds and lack of training make animal-processing plants some of the most dangerous places to work in America today.    There will be time for questions and audience participation is encouraged. This event is free and open to the public. Reception with vegan food to immediately follow.  RSVPs are encouraged:  animallawproject@law.upenn.edu  Dr. John Pippin Lecture on Issues in Animal ExperimentationApril 7, 2009; 4:30 – 6:30pmSilverman 240APenn Law School (Sansom St entrance btwn 34th & 35th) PHILADELPHIA, PA (April) – Animal Law Project presents a talk by Dr. John Pippin, senior medical and research advisor for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a charitable organization of physicians, scientists, educators, and laypersons that promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and addresses controversies in modern medicine. Dr. Pippin leads PCRM’s campaigns to replace the use of animals in medical research, education, drug research, and testing. He has testified on the topic before the FDA, the Institute of Medicine, and Britain’s House of Commons. Currently, estimates of the number of animals used in testing and research vary widely, but are in the millions. Furthermore, rats, birds, and mice, who make up 80-95% of animals used in experimentation, have no protection from the law, as The Animal Welfare Act does not cover these animals.  PCRM works to inform the public that results from research cannot always be accurately extrapolated to humans, and, in many cases, animals serve as poor predictors for how humans will respond to drugs or treatments.  This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are encouraged: animallawproject@law.upenn.edu  About Animal Law Project: Animal Law Project (ALP) is a student-run initiative which focuses on strengthening the legal status of animals and encouraging animal advocacy.  ALP organizes and presents legal education workshops for the public and assists attorneys and organizations with legal research regarding animal issues The Animal Law Project (ALP) focuses on the twin goals of strengthening the legal status of animals and encouraging animal advocacy. ALP works to achieve these goals by:

 

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