Peter Stevenson and Kari Hamerschlag, Author at Food Tank

Peter Stevenson and Kari Hamerschlag

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Kari Hamerschlag is the Deputy Director of Friends of the Earth’s Food and Agriculture Program and oversees the Climate-Friendly Food Program that aims to shift public institutional purchasing towards healthy, climate-friendly plant-based and organic foods. Peter Stevenson is Chief Policy Advisor of Compassion in World Farming and is a qualified lawyer. He played a leading role in winning the EU bans on gestation crates, battery cages and veal crates.

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