All posts tagged animal rights

Paul Watson, Captain Paul Watson Foundation

By | February 1, 2023 | Advocates, Authors, Cetaceans, Educators | No comments

Captain Paul Watson–a major figure for decades in the realm of animal rights, he founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1977—describes what he sees as the initial events that led to his ouster from his own organization. Read more…

Patrick Battuello, the founder of Horseracing Wrongs

By | March 9, 2022 | Advocates, Educators, Horses, Musicians, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Patrick Battuello—the founder and president of Horseracing Wrongs, an organization formed in 2013, and based in Albany, New York, which seeks to end horse racing–describes an unexceptional childhood when it comes to animals, growing up in a family that loved dogs. Read more…

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…

Priscilla Feral, president of Friends of Animals

By | July 5, 2017 | Advocates, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Horses, Legislation, Mammals, Primates, Spay/Neuter, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Priscilla Feral—the president of Friends of Animals, an international animal advocacy organization founded in 1957—discusses FoA’s late founder, Alice Herrington, outlining the characteristics that helped account for her pioneering inroads. Read more…

Thomas Ponce, 15-year-old activist & founder of Lobby For Animals

By | June 22, 2016 | Advocates, Educators, General, Legislation | No comments

Thomas Ponce—the 15-year-old activist and founder (at age 12) of Florida-based Lobby For Animals—recalls the circumstances that triggered his precocious interest in animal activism, as well as how hearing about the importance of lobbying at an animal rights conference in Washington, DC inspired his focus on that action. Read more…

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