Re: Kirby to Keynote at World's Most Important Environmental Law Conference

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Hi - could you please schedule another one of these in Eugene sometime in late June so that my die-hard environment 18 year old and I can attend while we are looking for her housing accomodations for school there next year????? haha

What a great venue for this! I am so excited for her to be going there for college.

Rox

Subject: Kirby to Keynote at World's" Most Important" Environmental Law ConferenceTo: eoharm Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 3:44 AM

DAVID KIRBY, AUTHOR OF “ANIMAL FACTORY,†TO KEYNOTE 2010 PUBLIC INTEREST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CONFERENCE, FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Kirby, author of the upcoming book “Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environmentâ€, (St. ’s Press, March 2, 2010), will be one of two Keynote Speakers at the 2010 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) on Saturday, February 27, at 7:00 PM , in Eugene , Oregon .

PIELC, the “world’s most important environmental law conference,†according to organizers, takes place on the University of Oregon campus from February 25-28.

At the conference, Kirby will also appear with environmental attorney tte Hahn Niman at a panel discussion on Friday, February 26, at 3:45 PM titled, “The Poop on Factory Farms: Lawyers and Citizens Take on Big Ag’s Pollution.†It will be moderated by environmental attorney Charlie Tebbutt, who represented CARE, a group of Yakima Valley residents, in their Clean Water Act lawsuits against mega-dairies in Washington State , as detailed in ANIMAL FACTORY.

Kirby and Tebbutt were interviewed on the Eugene NPR affiliate, KLCC-FM, for the “Northwest Passages†program with Mac. It will air at 4:00PM PST on Wednesday, March 24, and can be heard here.

For more information, please visit www.animalfactorybo ok.com. To interview Kirby, please contact Ekstrom at St. ’s Press at .

Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In ANIMAL FACTORY, bestselling investigative journalist Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the far-reaching fallout that can contaminate our air, land, and water supply.

Early Praise for Animal Factory:

"A propulsive chronicle. Thanks to Kirby’s extraordinary journalism, we have the most relatable, irrefutable, and unforgettable testimony yet to the hazards of industrial animal farming." BOOKLIST

"Immensely readable, should be required reading for anybody concerned with how CAFOs are changing the nature of livestock farming." LIBRARY JOURNAL

Kirby

Animal Factory - St. 's Press

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