Lunch Talk with Carter Dillard (Animal Legal Defense Fund) and Stephanie Feldstein (Center for Biological Diversity)

Join the Environmental Law Society, Animal Law Society, and Food Law and Policy Society for a lunch talk about animal rights, human rights, and the future of the planet.

There are more than 7 billion people in the world today and approximately 56 billion land animals raised and slaughtered for food each year. Population growth and meat consumption are two of the leading causes of the current mass extinction crisis and yet environmentalists rarely talk about them.

Carter Dillard, Director of Litigation with the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and Stephanie Feldstein, Population and Sustainability Director with the Center for Biological Diversity, will discuss the vital connections between animal agriculture, human population growth, environmental protection, and systems of rights – both human and animal. They will explain how to use this synergy – along with advocacy, creativity, and legal action – to get beyond the stigma and taboo that usually keep population growth and our diets out of conversations and they will suggest legal reforms and practical ways for each of us to create a better future for all species.

Presenters:

Carter Dillard is Director of Litigation with the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Carter began his career as an Honors Program appointee to the U.S. Department of Justice and later served as a legal advisor to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in the National Security Law Division. He holds a B.A. from Boston College, a J.D., Order of the Coif and with honors, from Emory University, and an LL.M. from New York University. Carter has written over a dozen articles, including peer-reviewed pieces, on animal protection and human population ethics, founded the organization uncrowded.org which promotes smaller and more loving families, and he currently sits on the Steering Committee for the Population Ethics: Theory and Practice research project at the University of Oxford. Learn more about ALDF’s work to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system at www.aldf.org.

Stephanie Feldstein is Population and Sustainability Director with the Center for Biological Diversity. Stephanie leads the Center’s work to highlight and address threats to endangered species and wild places from runaway human population growth and overconsumption. Previously Stephanie worked for Change.org, where she helped hundreds of people start and win online campaigns to save wildlife and other animals. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and has years of experience in organizing, outreach and communications, with a focus on animal and environmental protection. Learn more about the Center’s population and sustainability program at www.biologicaldiversity.org/population_sustainability; www.endangeredspeciescondoms.com; and www.takeextinctionoffyourplate.com.

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