Paul Crossley: The impact of animal exploitation for food clothes and experimentation...on (non-human) animals. I will touch very briefly on animal statistics, intensive farming and production practices and the laws that allow suffering to continue.

Bruce Poon: Eating Up the Earth Bruce will present insight and analysis of the impact that dietary choices can have on the environment, particularly in the Australian and Victorian context. The material draws on the latest research from Australia (CSIRO, ABARE, AGO) and the World (UN FAO, Earthsave, etc) to put the jigsaw together of just how much we could change in our environment, with minor changes to our diets. With urgent problems facing the world, including water shortages, climate change, deforestation and species extinction, it is timely to look at a solution to these problems that is within our reach.
Bruce Poon is a committee member and researcher for Vegetarian Network Victoria.

Jenny McCracken: Climate Code Red Jenny is a member of the Climate Emergency Network, an umbrella group set up to bring together the various climate acton groups in Victoria in response to the urgent action required to deal with this environmental crisis. The presentation is based on the science and ideas put forward in the recently published book of the same name.
www.climatecodered.net - www.climateemergencynetwork.org

Mark Doneddu: The Healthiest Diet of All What you eat profoundly affects your health. Mark Doneddu will present evidence from a wide range of studies including peer reviewed papers showing that a plant based diet is the healthiest diet of all. Among the m any subjects covered in the talk, answers to the following questions will be given:
Who created the conventional 5 food groups and who has benefitted from this?
What is the best source of protein for humans?
When does Vitamin B12 become readily absorbed in humans?
Where are the best sources of Omega 3 (ALA, EPA and D HA) oils found?
Why does heart disease kill one in two Australians but only 4 in 100 vegans?
How is it possible that cancer rates are rising while cancer treatments are increasing?
Mark Doneddu is the President of the Vegetarian Network Victoria and event manager for World Vegan Day.

Doug Leith: Anit-Vivisection
Presenting the human health argument against vivisection.
Do humans benefit from animal experiments?
Is it possible to reliably transfer results between species?
To what extent do humans and animals suffer from the same diseases?
Is the 'animal model' of human disease relevant to humans?
To what extent is genetic correlation valuable?
Advances in human medicine and their origins.
Real scientific methods versus vivisection.
Animal experimentation for animals of the same species. Is it necessary?
The protection of laboratory animals.