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Animal
Activists' Profiles,
Bios, Interviews
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Eddie
Lama
The
Witness, FaunaVision, Oasis
Sanctuary
Eddie
Lama is a force of nature... "Here’s
a poem, here’s a picture, here’s an animal
getting murdered in a heinous way — it takes
only three seconds to watch an animal get electrocuted.
They get it"...
Lisa
Leitten
Lisa
Leitten is finished living her double life. For the past three
years, the soft-spoken, 30-year old moved from Missouri to
Texas to Virginia, applying for jobs at businesses dealing
with animals. What
she didn't reveal was that she was also working for an animal
welfare organization...
Howard
Lyman
The
Mad Cowboy, President & Founder,
Voice for a Viable Future
I
have farmed thousands of acres of grain and reproduced
a herd of over one thousand commercial beef cows.
In addition to raising cows, I have raised chickens,
pigs, and turkeys. I have also grown crops such as
wheat, barley, oats, corn, alfalfa, and grass...
Jim
Mason
Jim Mason
Jim
Mason is an author (An
Unnatural Order: Why We Are Destroying the Planet and Each
Other, Animal Factories, In Defense of Animals),
lecturer, journalist, environmentalist, and attorney who specializes
in human/animal concerns...
Jeffrey
Masson
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
We
learned that there was no serious attempt to look at animal
emotions since Darwin’s book in 1872. Younger scientists
learned that there were some questions that would not advance
their careers and they turned away from them: animal emotions
was one of those questions...
Rich
McLellan
Animal Legislative Action Network
For
years, Rich McLellan has been pushing a futuristic solution
to the number of stray animals in California. "The
fact that we don't have identities for dogs and cats other
than a tag — which can be lost — or anything else
is a crime," said McLellan, a retired Los Angeles emergency
room doctor who runs an animal advocacy group. "We have
identities for microwaves"...
Ingrid
Newkirk
Co-founder,
PETA
She
often wears sporty, casual clothes, and at first glance looks
more like a soccer mum than one of the country's more widely
reviled political activists. That
humans take advantage of other animals in any way, simply because
we are stronger or smarter, Peta sees as the abiding moral
outrage of our time...
Ric
O'Barry
Dolphin
Project
The
Flipper TV series has been one of the best and one of the
worst things to happen to dolphins. On the one hand it made
people aware of them but one the other it helped create the
craze for dolphinaria and swimming with captive dolphins.
The captive industry hate me because I know their business
so well...
Wayne
Pacelle
CEO,
Humane Society of the United States
The
38-year-old Connecticut native was elected Chief
Executive Officer-Designate of The Humane Society of the United
States in the fall of 2004. He promised
to engage a broad range of people in a tireless campaign to
protect animals, which he called "one of the most important
moral causes of this age"...
Kit
Paraventi
A
vegetarian from the age of five, Kit felt very much the way
a lot of people feel: it’s wrong to wear animals for fur
coats or to eat them, even, but when it comes to human life-saving
animal research, one must draw the line....
Tom
Regan
Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights
He
didn't start out worrying about the rights of the furry and
finned to live a full and happy life. As a young man growing
up in gritty Pittsburgh, he earned his cash from butchering
meat in a store. Today,
some 40 years later, Mr. Regan is firmly on the other side
of the farmyard fence...
Adolfo
Sansolini
CEO,
British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV)
The
BUAV says Adolfo Sansolini, a leading Italian animal rights
advocate, is passionately anti-violence and not afraid to challenge
the negative stereotype that has beset the UK animal rights
movement...
Matthew
Scully
Author, Dominion:
The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the
Call to Mercy
If
you accept [modern factory farming], you accept it forever
and you’re
stuck with it and there is no way of going back. In this sense,
humanity has some important decisions to make. Push on and
accept factory farming or turn away and find a better answer...
Henry
Spira
Founder,
Animal Rights International
Spira
brought half a lifetime of activism in
the labor and civil rights movements to the animal rights world
when he became involved at the age of 45. His interest in what
he once called "the most defenseless of all the world's
victims" was aroused when a friend left him with a cat
around the time he read Peter Singer's essay "Animal
Liberation" in
1973...
Paul
Watson
President,
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
For
Watson, however, courage is not the issue. Working with the
Souix at Wounded Knee, a medic amid the hail of bullets, he
learned that, in the great scheme of things, what matters is
not how long you live, but why you live, what you live for,
stand for, and are willing to die for...
Ben
White
His
animal activism took fire after an eye-to-eye encounter
with a dolphin off the Kona Coast decades ago. "I
was suddenly aware that the entire world is conscious," White
said...
Peter
Young
This
is the customary time when the defendant expresses regret for
the crimes they committed, so let me do that because I am not
without my regrets. I am here today to be sentenced for my
participation in releasing mink from 6 fur farms. I regret
it was only 6...
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