Join ELS and ALDF for a lunchtime advocacy talk with Wendy Kerner and Tyler Lobdell. 

From polluted environments to degraded communities to animal suffering, the impacts of industrial animal agriculture are intertwined, and so are the solutions. In this presentation, Wendy, attorney and executive director of Ecological Consultants for the Public Interest (ECPI), a nonprofit working to transform animal agriculture into a more just, humane, and regenerative system, will discuss how ECPI collaborates at the grassroots level using the SEPAL framework (Science, Empowerment, Policy, Arts, and Law) to challenge one of the planet’s most harmful systems and advance just alternatives. She will be joined by Tyler Lobdell, senior attorney with Food & Water Watch, who will share efforts to reform the permitting process for CAFOs in Colorado. Participants will be invited into a shared conversation about collaboration and transformative change.