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Carol
Adams
A Feminist-vegetarian Ethic
We
get movements that try to expand the definition of human
because the recognition is that when something
is defined as not human it does not have to be
taken seriously – it can be abused,
it can be misused...
Gene
Baur
Farm
Sanctuary
He
believes that with a growing societal awareness about
industrial farming abuses — change is inevitable. He
continues to be encouraged and inspired by the rescued
animals at Farm Sanctuary and the human visitors
who are touched by them...
Lorri
Bauston
Animal
Acres
The
founder and executive
director of Animal
Acres sees the facility
as a means to an end — of
people's carnivorous
habits... "Our goal in having this sanctuary is to lead
by example. People aren't cruel by nature and I actually
believe we can change minds by educating them"...
Steve
Best, PhD
Academic
Activist and Activist Academic
I
have begun to address urgent
issues raised by environmentalism
and animal rights from the
standpoints of critical theory,
feminism, cultural studies,
postmodern theory, deep ecology,
and normative ethics...
Carol
Buckley
The
Elephant Sanctuary
I
was drawn to elephants by their intelligence — especially
their ability to comprehend ideas. The other
thing that drew me to elephants was their
natural curiosity...
Michael
Budkie
Stop
Animal Exploitation Now! (SAEN)
The
tools I learned from Michael set me on a path that
gave me a better understanding of dealing with
the issues that faced us here and a way to solve
the problems on a different level...
Virgil
Butler
A
tribute from United Poultry Concerns
More even than Don Barnes, Eldon Kienholz and Howard
Lyman, Virgil Butler was steeped in violence and
cruelty his whole life long. That he emerged to become
a passionate and articulate voice for chickens is
nothing short of amazing...
Ned
Buyukmihci
Association
of Veterinarians for Animal Rights
A dreamer
and a pragmatist, Dr. Ned retired this past spring from UC
Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, where he'd been a thorn
in the administration's side for more than two decades...
Lawrence
Carter-Long
Poster
Brat
Working
as both the Network Coordinator for the Disabilities
Network of New York City and Issues Specialist for
In Defense of Animals, a national animal advocacy
organization based in Mill Valley, CA Lawrence has
dedicated his life to promoting progress primarily
in the areas of animal protection and disability
rights...
Karen
Davis
United
Poultry Concerns
Karen
Davis is a campaigner/animal activist who's organisation,
United Poultry Concerns, is a voice in America
that actively promotes the compassionate and respectful
treatment of domestic fowl. If you've never heard
Karen speak before all I'll say is, if you were
in a fight you'd want her on your side...
Doris
Day
Doris
Day Animal League and Doris
Day Animal Foundation
Today,
Doris Day's full-time career is her work with animals, and
her non-profit organizations, the Doris Day Animal League and
the Doris Day Animal Foundation...
Neda
Demayo
Return
to Freedom Wild Horse Sanctuary
At
the age of six, Neda saw wild horses being chased by helicopters
on television. Even then she understood that she was witnessing
an unjust act leveled upon innocent, free creatures. On
that day, a child made a promise to America's wild horses:
that when she grew up they would have a home. And she feels
just as strongly today as she did then...
Pat
Derby
Performing
Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)
Soon,
requests started pouring in: Could the sanctuary take a lion
confiscated by local police? A bear that had grown too big
for its owner to handle? Inbred tigers treated wretchedly by
an unlicensed breeding mill?...
Chris
DeRose
Last
Chance for Animals
"If
you heard somebody
screaming for
help next door,
wouldn't you
try to do something?
Sure you would.
You'd come running
even if you couldn't
actually hear
the screams,
especially if
you knew that
person was being
tortured to death
and needed your
help — and
the animals are
screaming for
our help, right
now"...
Michael
W. Fox, DSc, PhD, BVet Med, MRCVS
Holistic Health Care and Bioethics
Dr.
Fox is known as a sharp and eloquent critic of the biotechnology
industry as a whole and of the FDA and USDA in particular.
As a professor, bioethicist, and veterinarian, Dr. Fox has
spearheaded the movement to foster the ethical treatment of
animals since 1976...
Bruce
Friedrich
Director
of Vegan Campaigns, PETA
Bruce
became concerned about animals that are slaughtered for food
while growing up in Minnesota and Oklahoma, where he often
saw trucks transporting turkeys, chickens, pigs, and cows through
bitter Minnesota winters and the sweltering Oklahoma summers...
Dr.
Jane Goodall
The
Jane Goodall Institute
That's
my own philosophy. Absolute respect for all living
things. That's one of the central parts of the programme
we have for young people. It is respect for animals,
respect for nature and the natural world, and respect
for the human community...
Drs.
Ray and Jean Greek
Americans
for Medical Advancement
Doctors
Ray and Jean Greek are tireless campaigners who travel the
world speaking to scientists and activists alike. Their intention
is to expose the money-driven superstition called "animal-modelled" biomedical
research...
Leo Grillo
Founder,
DELTA Rescue (Dedication & Everlasting Love to Animals)
Grillo
heads DELTA, the largest no-kill, care-for-life animal shelter
in the world located in Southern California, an organization
that rescues animals abandoned in the wilderness...
Alex
Hershaft
FARM,
Farm Animal Reform Movement,
The
Great American Meatout
In
the summer of 1981, Dr. Alex Hershaft organized ‘Action
For Life,’ a national conference that launched
the US animal rights movement. Shortly thereafter,
he gave up a successful career in environmental management
and an affluent suburban lifestyle to devote his
full attention to exposing and ending animal abuse
and other destructive impacts of animal agriculture...
Bob
Hunter
Co-founder, Greenpeace
The
discussion at hand: how to put pressure on the United States,
the rapacious neighbour to the south, to end its nuclear testing
programme in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. It was the beginning
of Greenpeace...
Kevin
Jonas
Stop
Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
Upon
my first visit to the shelter I was overwhelmed... Willy
came home with me the next day to start a new life. It
is ironic that I ended up with a beagle. Seven days a week
I spend all my time fighting to close down Huntingdon Life
Sciences, which uses beagles just like Willly to test on,
violate, mutilate, and murder...
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