Saturday, October 25, 2008, 10am–5pm
Confirmed Featured Speakers: Sally Fallon and Anna Lappe
Sally Fallon
Sally Fallon is founding president of The Weston A. Price Foundation, a non-profit nutrition education foundation with over 400 local chapters worldwide helping consumers find local grass-based animal products. She is also the founder of A Campaign for Real Milk, which has as its goal universal access to clean raw milk from pasture-fed animals. She is the author of the best-selling cookbook Nourishing Traditions and also of Eat Fat Lose Fat (Penguin), both with Mary G. Enig, PhD.
Fallon speaks to the importance of returning to organic farming, pasture-fed livestock and whole traditional foods, properly prepared, if Americans are to regain their health and vitality, as well as the benefits of an economy based on small scale organic production and food processing that returns added value to the independent farmer, rather than to large-scale food processing conglomerates.
Anna Lappé
Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author and sought-after public speaker, respected for her work on sustainability, food politics, globalization, and social change. Named one of TIME’s “Eco-Who’s Who,” Anna has been featured in The New York Times, Gourmet, O-The Oprah Magazine, Domino, Food & Wine, Body+Soul, Natural Health, Utne, and Vibe.
Since 2002, Anna has been collaborating with her mother, Frances Moore Lappé, through their Cambridge based Small Planet Institute, an international network for research and popular education. They are also co-founders of the Small Planet Fund, which has raised more than a half million dollars for democratic social movements worldwide, two of which have won the Nobel Peace Prize since the Fund’s founding in 2002.
Anna is the host for MSN’s Practical Guide for Healthier Living and the public television series, The Endless Feast. She can be seen on Sundance Channel’s Big Ideas for a Small Planet and the PBS special, Nourish. At Howdini.com, she is a featured expert on bringing sustainability into your life. Anna has appeared on numerous television networks, including Fox, NBC, PBS, and the CBC in Canada, as well as dozens of nationally syndicated radio programs, such as Martha Stewart Living, National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition, Talk to America, and WYNC’s Leonard Lopate Show.
Anna’s first book Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (Tarcher/Penguin 2002), co-written with her mother Frances Moore Lappé, chronicles courageous social movements around the world addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty. Called “ingenious” by The New York Times, Anna’s second book Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (Tarcher/Penguin 2006) combines an exposé of industrial agriculture with chef Bryant Terry’s seasonal menus.
In 2007, she was honored, with New York Time columnist Nicholas Kristof, by The
Missing Peace Project and was featured with Karenna Schiff Gore and Amanda Hearst in Contribute Magazine’s “21 Under 40 Making a Difference.”
Anna has worked and lived in South Africa, England, and France. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York where she is at work on her third book for adults and a children’s book series.