Eat Right Symposium
Our dietary choices impact our planet, our health and the animals.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR 2024
Students from schools around Tāmaki Makaurau are invited to come and learn how what we eat impacts our health, the environment and animals.
Join us for a morning of inspiring talks, interactive workshops, Q and A sessions and delicious food! Meet other young people who are passionate about health, sustainability and animal rights!
This event will be of interest to
– Students 13-17 years interested in health, environmentalism, climate change, and animal rights
– Teachers interested in PE, Health, Sustainability and Geography, Philosophy, English, History.
– Staff and students who run groups on sustainability, climate change, health, animal rights, philosophy etc.
Details
Grey Lynn Community Centre
from 9am to 1pm.
Registration is free*.
FREE plant-based catering and Goody Bags for ALL participants.
*Limit of 15 per school
For more information, contact Amanda Sorrenson,
amanda@vegansociety.org.nz or on 021 102 7317.
Meet our Speakers 2024
Jaxon and Ella are the vegan trainers behind Auckland’s newest weights-based gym, Lift Club.
Tucked away in the city fringe suburb of Eden
Terrace, Lift Club is a weights-focussed gym run
by Jaxon Burton and Ella Webster, both experts
on building strength with a plant-based diet.
Jason Shon Bennett is a self-cured health researcher, inspirational speaker, author who inspires and educates people all over the world. Jason’s health transformation story took New Zealand by storm; Jason spent 20 years extremely sick born sickly and premature to a mother suffering toxaemia. Throughout his first 25 years he suffered asthma, constipation, bad skin, allergies, hay fever and fatigue, alongside regular colds, flu, bugs and sickness that would have him in bed for weeks/months every year. He was on Ventolin daily (up to 16 shots), regular steroid injections and Intal preventers. After being told many times he was “incurable”, and was sick of being sick (long before the internet, social media and globalisation), he began extensive research into the world’s healthiest diets and the medicinal properties of foods. Applying these learnings in his own life, Jason transformed his health and has not been ill nor taken asthma medication for over 30 years.
Talk Synopsis
Want to live long, stay healthy, have clear skin, heaps of energy and save the planet? Eat more plants. Learn how and why.
Oli Allen is an environmentalist and an animal caretaker. They found their calling when they joined the environmental committee in high school. This encouraged them to study Ecology and Zoology at the University of Otago where they developed a deep understanding of our ecosystems and how they are impacted by humans and the lives that we lead. Since then they have continued to develop their knowledge of environmental issues and the threats to our ecosystem while travelling around the world caring for animals. Through instagram and their website they aim to raise awareness about environmental threats and what we can do to help.
Steve Abel, Green Party MP, is an environmental and climate activist with 25 years experience.
He was part of the successful campaign to end native logging on crown land in the late 1990s; the GE free environment campaign in the early 2000s; the Greenpeace campaign to stop Marsden B coal fired power station in 2005; and the alliance with Te Whānau-ā-Apanui against Petrobras which led to a seven year campaign that culminated in the end to offshore oil and gas exploration in Aotearoa in 2018. He is part of the urban tree protection group Mana Rākau. Most recently he has led the Greenpeace project to provide free nitrate water testing for rural people on bore supplies affected by dairy contamination. He has been an MP with the Green Party since 2023.
Amanda is the national coordinator of the Vegan Society and is passionate about animals, social justice and the environment. She has been involved with advocating for animals since she was 12 when she became a vegetarian and a volunteer for SAFE.
Workshop synopsis
Amanda will be running a practical workshop demonstrating plant-based food subs!
Warning there will be lots of sampling different foods and discussions on how to switch out animal-based ingredients for plant-based ones!
Josh Howell is an ultra-athlete – walking the talk when it comes to healthy living. Right into fitness, he’s ticked off both a 100 mile ultramarathon and an Ironman as a plant based athlete. Josh is a Qualified Health Coach helping to empower people to take control of their own health.
Recent Sporting Achievements
Eat Right Syposium 2023
