World Vegetarian Congress - Edinburgh, Scotland, Summer 2002 - Joyce D'Silva
'Food for all our futures'
Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland
July 8-14, 2002
The Vegetarian Society
of the United Kingdom
Joyce
D'Silva
Tuesday - 2.00pm - 3.00pm : Tweak a Gene
- genetic engineering and farm animals
Tuesday, plenary session - 4.30pm - 6.15pm
Joyce D'Silva took her degree at
Dublin University (Trinity College) and taught in India and later in Essex.
She has worked for Compassion in World Farming since 1985 and became its
Director in 1991.
Joyce has written reports on BST, veal farming and modern farm animal
breeding technologies. She has written chapters on the genetic engineering
of farm animals for three books, including "Animal Biotechnology
and Ethics", published last year by Chapman & Hall and "The
Meat Business - devouring a hungry planet" published in June 1999
by Earthscan. An article on BSE, which she wrote for an American magazine,
was named one of the top 25 censored stories of 1994.
She had addressed the BVA's Annual Congress, as well as the Intergroup on Animal Welfare at the European Parliament. In February 2001, Joyce gave oral evidence to the New Zealand government's Royal Commission on Genetic Engineering.
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