This Saturday, Nov 1st, is World Vegan Day, and is also the annual Boston Vegetarian Food Festival, at Reggie Lewis Athletic Center in Boston (map).

This year’s speakers include:

• Blogger and cookbook author Sarah Kramer talking about her new book Vegan a Go-Go, “a cookbook and advice book for veg travellers.”
• Danielle Nierenberg from the Worldwatch Institute on “Meat Production’s Impact on Climate Change and the Environment” (the other inconvenient truth) (she authored their report: Happier Meals: Rethinking the Global Meat Industry)
• jae steele, the author of Get It Ripe: a fresh take on vegan cooking and living, which focuses on unprocessed, whole food ingredients
• T. Colin Campbell, the author of The China Study on the medical impact of plant-based diets
• Karen Dawn, the author of Thanking the Monkey (and founder of DawnWatch)
• Michael Greger, the author of BIRD FLU: A Virus of Our Own Hatching, and CARBOPHOBIA: The Scary Truth Behind America’s Low Carb Craze
• Hannah Kaminsky, the author of My Sweet Vegan and blogger at BitterSweetBlog

Like the festival as a whole, all the talks are free – see the schedule for times and for more detail. There will also be tons of food for sampling, and vendors who offer animal-friendly options.