Clinical Nutrition 2009, held on Saturday November 14th 2009 at Albion Peace Centre, Windsor.
Clinical Nutrition DVD - A viewing of the latest Clinical Nutrition DVD (volume 3) by Michael Greger, MD (USA)
Discussion Panel - Amanda Benham (Nutritionist) . Tracy-Lynne Geyson (BLEATS Animal Lawyer) . Cameron Blewett (Sea Shepherd & V.EX) . Joanne Stagg-Taylor (Food blogger & Mother)
Biographies of Speakers
Tracy-Lynne Geysen (BLEATS)
Tracy-Lynne has been practising exclusively in family law since she began her articles of clerkship in 2000 with Emerson Black Lawyers and at Barry and Nilsson Lawyers. Since that time she has had much experience in all areas of family law including difficult children and property matters. She has participated in many mediations and an arbitration.
She has worked as a tutor at QUT and is a mentor in the QUT mentor program. She is currently completing her Masters of Laws at UQ.
Just prior to commencing her own practice in August 2009 she was a Minister appointed Panel member of the Redress Scheme of the Forde Inquiry, the Commission of Inquiry into the abuse of children in Queensland Institutions.
Tracy is the founding member of BLEATS (Brisbane Lawyers Advocating and Educating for Tougher Sentences), a group set up in 2007 and currently consisting of some 130 lawyers including 3 senior counsel prosecuting matters on a pro bono basis for the RSPCA. This group of Brisbane Lawyers have formed an organisation to campaign for animal justice. Calling themselves BLEATS their major aim is to focus attention on the apparent unwillingness or seeming inability of Magistrates to wield their powers under the Animal Care and Protection Act 2001.
In addition to family law she will specialise in animal law, and the firm is the first law firm practising in this area in Australia.
Joanne Stagg-Taylor
Joanne is the author of the Brisvegan food blog. She created the blog to show how easy it is to be vegan in Brisbane. She showcases family meals, gives vegan product reviews and tips for living vegan. She has been vegan for 2 1/2 years and was vegetarian for 10 years before that. She has a husband and three children, two of whom were vegan pregnancies. She is a full time academic, with a legal background. She is an active member in both real-life and online vegan communities.
Amanda Benham
Amanda Benham is an Accredited Practising and Accredited Nutritionist who specialises in vegetarian and vegan nutrition. Her particular area of interest is planning nutritionally adequate health-enhancing plant-based diets, and she has published papers on this subject. Amanda consults to industry and institutions on the development and implementation of vegetarian menus as well helping individual clients to improve their eating habits and achieve better health. In conjunction with her nutrition practice she is currently working on opening a retail shop specialising in healthy vegan organic and fair trade foods. Amanda has been a vegan since 1983 and her two grown-up children are lifelong vegans.
Cameron Blewett
Cameron Blewett is passionate about health and fitness, veganism and animal rights. He is a qualified personal trainer and owner of Exemplo Ducemus personal training. He is also the president and founder of V.EX (Vegan Existence), a Brisbane based abolitionist animal rights group. In addition to this, he is a volunteer for Sea Shepherd conservation society here in Brisbane.