KW VegFest

Thanks to everyone who joined our 3rd annual KW Vegfest!!! It was amazing! Check out all of our videos on our website or Facebook page... cooking videos, a doctors' panel, zero waste, sanctuary tours, and an introduction from our MPP, Laura Mae Lindo. HOW:... We are using the KW Vegfest 2020 Facebook event page and we will have a schedule of speakers, presentations, demonstrations and virtual sanctuary tours. Each speaker will have a pre-recorded video in the Facebook event. This will allow the audience to 'choose your own adventure.' Tune into the presentations that you want to view as they are posted, if you've missed any - they can be viewed later. The Live Health panel is on Sunday at 2pm and it will be archived on the event page as well. In addition, there will be lots of great giveaways posted for participants throughout the virtual event. Participation is easy: just tune in by opening THIS EVENT on Saturday at 11am. Keep refreshing your browser to see announcements from us and posts from vendors. Here is the Vegfest Schedule for July 4 + 5: SATURDAY 11:00 AM WELCOME MESSAGE AND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BY LAURA MAE LINDO, MPP 11.15 AM INTRO TO PLANT-BASED MENTORING with Barbi Lazarus 11.30 AM FROG HOLLOW FARM SANCTUARY - VIDEO TOUR 11.45 AM COOKING DEMO BY CHEF JACK MIDDLETON Chickpea Salad & Tofu Scramble 12:00 PM TALK BY KEYNOTE SPEAKER DR. NEAL BARNARD The surprising effects that foods have on our hormones - and our health 1:00 PM BLACK GOAT SANCTUARY - VIDEO TOUR 1.15 PM EARTHY SISTERS ZERO-WASTE DEMOS DIY No-Sew bag | How to make your own oat milk 1.30 PM COOKING DEMO BY FOOD BLOGGER THE VIET VEGAN 2:00 PM KARUNA LANE FARM SANCTUARY - VIDEO TOUR 2.30 PM TALKS BY YOUNG CLIMATE ACTIVISTS Kimaya on Deforestation | Greta / Climate Save on Climate change 2.45 PM THE FAUNA FOUNDATION PRIMATE SANCTUARY - VIDEO TOUR 3:00 PM SOPHIA'S BIKE TOUR Climate change & Zero Waste 3.45 PM CEDAR ROW FARM SANCTUARY - VIDEO TOUR SUNDAY 11:00 AM TALK BY KEYNOTE SPEAKER DR. NEAL BARNARD The surprising effects that foods have on our hormones - and our health 12:00 PM THE BROWNS' MICROSANCTUARY - VIDEO TOUR 12.15pm COOKING DEMO BY CHEF JACK MIDDLETON Pulled King Oyster Sliders | Kale Salad 12.30 PM EARTHY SISTERS ZERO-WASTE DEMOS DIY dry shampoo 12.45 PM CARROLL ORGANICS FARM SANCTUARY - VIDEO TOUR 1:00 PM TALKS BY HEALTH PANEL SPEAKERS Dr. Shane Williams | Dr. Rikin Patel | Dr. Julie Chan 2:00 PM LIVE HEALTH PANEL Dr. Neal Barnard | Dr. Rikin Patel | Dr. Julie Chan | Dr. Shane Williams 3.15 PM COOKING DEMO BY KNOW THY FOOD 3.45 PM TALK BY THE VEGAN SHEEPDOG Veganism + masculinity: A personal story 4:15 PM COOKING DEMO BY VEGTAGO CHEESE Vegan Taco casserole The event is sponsored by Kitchener Waterloo Climate Save and the City of Kitchener, and powered by a group of hard-working volunteers.

MUST WATCH!! University professor, Vasile Stanescu, delivers a powerful speech on why ending animal agriculture is the ONLY solution to climate change. Fi...ghting against climate change denial does not simply mean saying ‘I believe in climate change’. It means believing, and doing what the peer-reviewed research says we should do about climate change, and that is a massive, government supported, across the board move to a plant-based diet. If you support the need to move to plant-based food system, please follow Nation Rising and support our work! This speech was part of a workshop on the need to transition to a plant-based food system in Canada. You can watch the whole video, with more brilliant panelists, on our page. ---------------------------------- Dr. Vasile Stanescu Full Biography: Dr. Stanescu is Associate Professor of Communication at Mercer University, co-editor of the Critical Animal Studies book series published by Rodopi/Brill, the co-founder of the North American Association for Critical Animal Studies (NAACAS), the former co-editor of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies, and former co-organizer of the Stanford Environmental Humanities Project. Stanescu is also the author of over 20 peer-reviewed publications on the critical study of animals and the environment.

Help the sanctuary animals at Karuna Lane while you shop for the holidays ... or yourself! Please bid, SHARE, and donate items if you can. Lots of vegan swag ... jewelry, shirts, stickers, tattoos, hoodies, hats, yummy baked goods, catered meals and more! And lots of other cool stuff ... snowshoes, books, planters, cushions, bouncy castle rentals, artwork ........ https://www.facebook.com/groups/3340577552656407/?ref=share

Virtual tours of some wonderful local farm sanctuaries - Cedar Row, Froghollow, TheBrownsMicroSanctuary, Carroll's Animal Sanctuary, & Karuna Lane Sanctuary from KW Vegfest 2020.

We learn from Harvard-educated psychologist Dr. Melanie Joy, the world's leading expert on the psychology of (not) eating animals. Her work has been featured b...y national and international media outlets around the world, She is the author of the award-winning book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, as well as Powerarchy, and Beyond Belief. Dr. Joy is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, a relationship coach, and a communication specialist. She is the founding president of the charitable organization Beyond Carnism and a co-founder of ProVeg International. You can learn more about her work at carnism.org. See more

In case you missed it the 1st time... and please share ... it's a fabulous panel, with a paediatrician and more!

COOKING DEMO BY CHEF JACK MIDDLETON Jack Middleton, Hamilton-based chef and owner of The Empowered Vegan, is back today with some delicious pulled king oyster mushroom sliders paired with a rosemary tarragon coleslaw. For more delicious + easy-to-follow recipe videos, subscribe to his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBk9IiIPuYqlODFONkZUtLw Visit his website for plant based catering, cooking classes and private lessons:... https://www.theempoweredvegan.com/ #kwvegfest #kwvegfest2020 #virtualvegfest #whatveganseat #plantbasedcooking See more