Jane Velez-Mitchell: Beyond Animal Agriculture Summit is a hit!
The global virtual summit tackled the most important question of our time: How can farmers and ranchers thrive, on their land, without animals? It was viewed by more than 18,000 people.
JANE VELEZ MITCHELL: On November 21st the Rancher Advocacy Program joined forces with the JaneUnChained News Network and held a global virtual summit to tackle the most important question of our time: How can farmers and ranchers thrive, on their land, without animals? The summit was viewed by more than 18-thousand people on Facebook, originating at Facebook.com/JaneVelezMitchell and crossposting to dozens of other organizations (listed below) that gave us permission. It was also viewed by hundreds who attended the event via zoom. You can watch it all below.
The panel included internationally recognized filmmaker Kip Andersen, of Cowspiracy and What the Health fame, Miyoko Schinner of Miyoko’s Creamery, one of the world’s top vegan cheese and butter brands and Leah Garces, President of Mercy for Animals. Stanford PhD, author and systems analyst Dr. Sailesh Rao of Climate Healers also spoke, along with internationally recognized food justice activist Eugene Cooke of Grow Where You Are. Kim Sturla, executive director of Animal Place Sanctuary and Robert Grillo, head of Free from Harm also weighed in. David Simon, author of the celebrated book Meatonomics attended the event as a viewer and then joined in with commentary. Renee King-Sonnen moderated the panel, along with journalist and author Jane Velez-Mitchell, the editor of this news site…
This summit was just the start. We are having another one on Saturday, February 6th at 10am Pacific, noon Central, 1pm Eastern. Mark your calendars and visit RancherAdvocacy.org to sign up! We need your thoughts too! SOURCE…
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