We are excited to present five amazing speakers at this year’s Twin Cities Veg Fest. Since we expect more than 2,000 people to attend the festival, these speaker presentations will reach many people with a message of compassion for farm animals.
The speakers for Twin Cities Veg Fest 2014 include:
- Mark Berkson, Ph.D., Professor and Chair in the Department of Religion at Hamline University
- Kristina DeMuth, registered dietician
- Erica Meier, Executive Director, Compassion Over Killing
- Taylor Radig, former undercover investigator
- Paul Shapiro, Vice President of Farm Animal Protection, Humane Society of the United States
Their presentations cover the gamut from informative seminars on plant-based nutrition to moving firsthand accounts of what happens on factory farms.
For a glimpse of Paul Shapiro’s talk, listen to our recent podcast interview with him.
Former undercover investigator Taylor Radig was the most recent addition to the schedule. Those of us who attended the Animal Rights National Conference last month got to hear Taylor Radig speak about her experience as an undercover investigator filming animal abuse on factory farms. We were so moved by Taylor’s firsthand account of the cruelty she witnessed that we wanted to bring her to the Twin Cities to share her powerful story with our local community.
For more about these speakers, visit the Twin Cities Veg Fest website and then mark your calendars. The festival is happening on Sunday, September 28, 10:00am – 4:00pm at Coffman Memorial Union at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The festival is free to attend and open to anyone and everyone. Bring friends and share this celebration of all things veg.
For the animals,
Unny Nambudiripad