The Cultural and Health Benefits of a Vegan Diet

Will Tuttle, author of The World Peace Diet, will speak on the spiritual, cultural, and health benefits of eliminating animal agriculture. He will be joined by two panelists: Erica Fuchs, director of the Center for Plant-Based Diet Development and research associate in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Iowa State, will discuss vegan nutrition. Harold Brown, a former farmer, rancher, and founder of Farm Kind, will speak on his conversion from animal- to plant-based agriculture. William Tuttle was trained in Korea as a Zen Buddhist monk. He has a doctorate in the philosophy of education from the University of California, Berkeley, and is cofounder of Karuna Music & Art and the Prayer Circle for Animals. Part of the Sustainable Food Conference: A New Paradigm for a Peaceful Planet.