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

[Guest guest]

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

Environment”, (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.animalfactorybook.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

www.animalfactorybook.com

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