Episode 14: Animal Rights Hall of Fame Awardee & Founder and Executive Director of the Food Empowerment Project, Lauren Ornelas

Episode 14

Lauren Ornelas - Founder and Executive Director of the Food Empowerment Project

Lauren has been active in the animal rights movement for more than 30 years. She is the former executive director of Viva!USA, a national nonprofit vegan advocacy organization that Viva!UK asked her to start in 1999. While lauren was the director of Viva!USA, she investigated factory farms and ran consumer campaigns. In cooperation with activists across the country, she persuaded Trader Joe’s to stop selling all duck meat and achieved corporate changes within Whole Foods Market, Pier 1 Imports, and others, and she helped halt the construction of an industrial dairy operation in California. lauren was also the spark that got the founder of Whole Foods Market to become a vegan. In addition, she served as campaign director with the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition for six years. Watch

Source : Food Empowerment Project - Our Team

Found out more Lauren and her work @ 

• Food Empowerment Project
• Facebook
• Twitter
• YouTube
• Blog

Support The Food Empowerment Project : Donate

Lauren’s TEDx Talk: Watch on YouTube

Links to other things mentioned in the Podcast:

• F.E.P.’s Chocolate List app
• Vallejo: City of Opportunity Lacks Access to Healthy Food
• Bringing Community Voices to the Table; Food Access in San José Data Analysis 

Book Recommendations: 

• Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism: New Tactics, New Technology
• Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering
• A Vegan Ethic: Embracing a Life of Compassion Toward All

Author Recommendations: 

• Carol Adams 
• Practice Jones
• Tracye McQuarter
• Dr. Breeze Harper
• Aph Ko
• Mark Hawthorne
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Sandra Cisneros