PAST SPEAKERS
November 3rd, 2022 | Daina Bray
In addition to discussing her work on climate change and Big Ag, Bray touched on various animal law hot topics including the Supreme Court case that challenges California’s prop 12, the Farm Animal Confinement Initiative, domestic and international efforts to obtain Legal personhood for animals, the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, the Farm Systems Reform Act, and other promising efforts to reduce animal exploitation.
Bray earned a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was a Morehead scholar.
Bray recently received the 2021 American Bar Association Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Animal Law and is considered one of the most respected and admired lawyers in the field of animal protection.
July 13th, 2022 |
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Senator Cory Booker, serves on the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee and the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. In 2021, Senator Booker reintroduced the Farm System Reform Act to crack down on monopolist practices and invest billions in the transition to a more resilient food system.
Senator Booker shared that he made reforming our food system his top priority in the Senate. “Lives are depending upon what we do in this movement. We are in a crisis, but we cannot in any way let ourselves send into despair or surrender to cynicism. We have the capacity to change this, and we are a few in numbers nationally, but we're growing this consciousness of our country.”
November 13th, 2021 |
Impossible Foods CEO Pat Brown
Based in California’s Silicon Valley, Impossible Foods is on a mission to transform the global food system and reduce the impact of climate change by making the world’s most delicious, nutritious, and sustainable meat, fish, and dairy products from plants — with a much smaller environmental footprint than meat from animals. Animal meat production uses nearly half of the world’s land, is responsible for at least 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions and consumes 25% of the world’s freshwater. Impossible Foods makes meat from plants using a small fraction of the land, water and energy — so people can keep eating the foods they love, without harming the planet they love.
During our first event Pat Brown had a fruitful discussion with Sweet Farm co-founder Nate Salpeter about techology initiatives that are scaling sustainable and compassionate impact.
Co-Founder and Executive Director Sweet Farm Foundation
Passionate about giving voice to those without one, Nate Salpeter co-founded Sweet Farm with his wife Anna Sweet out of recognition that industrialized farming has had a profoundly negative impact on the lives of billions of animals as well as on plant-based agriculture. A Ph.D. engineer working in the nuclear industry, Nate brings his analytical mindset to the animal welfare space where he, Anna Sweet, and an incredible team have built Sweet Farm to be more than just a farm-animal rescue, but also a place of education, inspiration, and innovation through animal rescue, regenerative agriculture, and technology initiatives to scale accessible change in the food system globally. Nate and Anna are active advisors and investors in the alternative protein, agriculture technology, and sustainability sectors.
