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Ronnie Lee, veteran animal rights activist & founder of the Animal Liberation Front

By | July 19, 2017 | Advocates, Dogs, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Operations, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Ronnie Lee—the veteran British animal rights activist, who in 1976, founded the Animal Liberation Front (ALF)—muses about how to reconcile a lad whose childhood, in its basic contours, resembled many people’s childhood, yet he went on to become a firebrand activist. Read more…

Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone contributing editor

By | January 11, 2017 | Authors, Dogs, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Investigations, Operations | No comments

Paul Solotaroff—Rolling Stone contributing editor who wrote a wide-ranging, high-profile exposé about the netherworld of puppy mills in the then-new issue of the magazine—discusses how he came to write the piece, sort of goaded into it by Humane Society of The United States CEO Wayne Pacelle, after Solotaroff completed another Rolling Stone investigative opus about factory farming. Read more…

Anita Krajnc, activist & co-founder of Toronto Pig Save

By | February 24, 2016 | Advocates, Educators, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Operations, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Anita Krajnc—the animal rights activist who co-founded Toronto Pig Save (spawning The Save Movement)—discusses her arrest for giving water to a truckload of thirsty pigs on a sweltering day last summer, as the truck was pulling into a Burlington slaughterhouse. Read more…

Nathan Runkle, founder of Mercy For Animals…Plus, Joan Jett!

By | April 1, 2015 | Advocates, Environmental Impact, Factory Farming, Health & Behavior, Investigations, Legislation, Operations, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Nathan Runkle—founder and president of Mercy For Animals—recounts the horrific incident (a fellow high school student that Runkle said slammed a baby piglet on a concrete floor during class) that prompted him to create the organization in 1999. Read more…

Kip Andersen & Keegan Kuhn, “Cowspiracy” filmmakers

By | September 10, 2014 | Actors & Filmmakers, Environmental Impact, Factory Farming, Health & Behavior, Investigations, Operations, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Kip Andersen & Keegan Kuhn—filmmakers behind the documentary “Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret,” which examines how the animal agriculture industry dwarfs all other causes of global climate change (and other ills), and how the most prominent environmental nonprofit organizations look the other way, and worse—discuss their respective backgrounds and how they teamed up for this project. Read more…

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