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UPC’s Conscious Eating Conference | David Brower Center

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Saturday, February 29, 2020 - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Cost: FREE*
*FREE for students with IDs, to register email hope@upc-online.org/ $25 pre-registration for all others. $35 at the door the day of the event.

David Brower Center | 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA

Free / RSVP

The 2020 Conscious Eating Conference brings expert speakers from across the country to Berkeley, California to share their ideas and experiences. on Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 8 am. Program starts at 8:45 am.

This year explore overlapping oppressions with these questions:

  • How is speciesism entangled with other forms of oppression?
  • How do different forms of oppression prop each other up?
  • What is the best way for us to represent veganism and animal advocacy that recognizes multiple, overlapping oppressions?
  • How do we create supportive alliances?

Conscious Eating Conference Schedule of Speakers:

  • 8:00 am: Registration Opens
    -Presentations
  • 8:45 – 9:50 am: Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns
    -Comparing Atrocities: Pros, Cons and Paradoxes
    -10 minute break
  • 10:00 – 10:50 am: Christopher Sebastian McJetters, Author and Activist
    -White Meat: How Did Animal Exploitation Become a Signifier for White National Identity and How Do We Fight It?
    -10 minute break
  • 11:00 – 11:50 pm: lauren Ornelas, Food Empowerment Project
    -Why Caring Only About Non-Human Animals Might Be Right For You!
  • 11:50 – 1:00 pm: Lunch
  • 1:00 – 1:50 pm: Carol Adams, Author and Activist
    -On Trying To Be an Antiracist Vegan Feminist
    -10 minute break
  • 2:00 – 2:50 pm: Jasmine Leyva, The Invisible Vegan
    -The Invisible Vegan: A Journey of Compassion
    -10 minute break
  • 3:00 – 5:00 pm: Animal Rights Herstory Panel
    Karen Davis, Carol Adams, Patti Breitman

Free for students with IDs and Low Income Registration. $25 pre-registration for all others. $35 at the door the day of the event.

Registration includes a continental breakfast of vegan pastries & fruit, delicious vegan lunch, and all-day coffee & tea.

Please join for this exciting day that includes the Animal Rights Herstory Panel detailing the struggle for animals and animal rights since the 1980s.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.


Cost: FREE*
*FREE for students with IDs, to register email hope@upc-online.org/ $25 pre-registration for all others. $35 at the door the day of the event.
Categories: **Annual Event**, Eating & Drinking, Lectures & Workshops
Address: 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA