Why vegan? Lessons from an animal scientist
Presentation Room A
11:00am – Noon
Jonathan Balcombe was born in England and raised in New Zealand and Canada. He studied biology at Canada’s York University and Carleton University before earning a PhD in ethology (animal behavior) from the University of Tennessee. He has written over 40
scientific papers and book chapters, and many lay articles on animal behavior and animal protection. A popular speaker, Jonathan has given invited presentations on six continents. He is the author of Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals (Palgrave, 2010),
Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good (Macmillan, 2006), and The Exultant Ark: A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure (University of California Press, forthcoming March 2011). His blog The Inner Lives of Animals has appeared on Psychology
Today, Best Thinking, Secretary of Innovation and on his own website. Balcombe is the Animal Studies Department Chair for Humane Society University and he works as a consultant near Washington, DC. In his spare time he enjoys nature-watching, biking, piano, vegan cooking and trying to understand his two cats.