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Dr. Alex Hershaft
In
1981, Dr Alex Hershaft organized ‘Action For Life,’ a national conference
credited with launching the U.S. animal rights movement. Later that year, he
founded FARM (Farm Animal Rights Movement), which has become a major force in
the struggle for veganism and animal rights. He launched World Farm Animals Day
in 1983, and the Great American Meatout in 1985. FARM's other campaigns include
Vegan Earth Day, Gentle Thanksgiving, Letters From FARM, and the Sabina Fund, as
well as the national annual animal rights conference. In an earlier life, Dr.
Hershaft spent 20 years in materials and environmental research and consulting.
He holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Iowa State University. To learn more about
FARM, visit:
www.farmusa.org.
Dr. Elliot Katz
Dr.
Elliot Katz is the founder and President of In Defense of Animals (IDA), and one
of the most recognized figures in the animal rights movement. He founded IDA, 26
years ago. The mission of IDA is to fight for the rights, welfare, and habitats
of animals, seeking to raise their status above that of mere property,
commodities, or things. Just a few of IDA’s campaigns have included fighting
the chimpanzee bush meat trade in Africa, rescuing and caring for abused animals
in rural Mississippi, providing ambulance service and veterinary care to street
animals in India, and wild horse rescue in Nevada and Oregon. Those are just
some of the ways IDA has successfully reached out to animals in need. To learn
more about IDA, please visit:
http://www.idausa.org/
Revd Professor Andrew Linzey
Andrew Linzey is an
Anglican
priest, and theologian. He is a member of the Faculty of Theology
in the
University of Oxford . He is the director of the
Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. The Centre aims to encourage research into,
and improve public debate on, the issues surrounding animal-related ethics. More
than 100 academics in various fields currently act as advisers to the Centre.
Prof. Linzey has written more than 180 articles, and authored or edited twenty
books on
theology and
ethics. He is the author of Why Animal Suffering Matters (Oxford
University Press, 2009). In 2006, in recognition of his role in the creation of
the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, Linzey was named the
Henry Bergh Professor of Animal Ethics at the Graduate
Theological Foundation in the U.S., the first such professorship of its kind in
the world. To learn more about Dr. Linzey, please visit:
http://www.oxfordanimalethics.com/who-we-are/director/
Anthony Marr
Anthony Marr holds a
science degree from the University of British Columbia. He has worked as a
field geophysicist and an environmental technologist. In 1995, he became a full
time wildlife preservationist, which has brought him to India three times,
earning him the title of the "Champion of the Bengal Tiger" in the Champions of
the Wild TV series which aired in 20 countries. As an anti-hunting activist, he
has conducted high profile campaigns in Canada for the bears and seals, and has
been to Japan twice for the whales and dolphins. He is the founder of
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE) and has traveled five times to 40 states in a
seminal campaign: Compassion for Animals Road Expedition (CARE). He is also
the author of Omni-Science. To learn more, please visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/hope/
Dr. Shirley McGreal
Dr. Shirley McGreal is
Founder and Director of the International Primate Protection League (IPPL). The
organization maintains a primate sanctuary in South Carolina and has been
fighting the primate trade since 1973. IPPL helps many ape and monkey
sanctuaries in Africa, Asia, and South America. Dr. McGreal has made herself the
bane of poachers and endangered primate traffickers worldwide. IPPL’s
investigative work has been recognized by the United Nations Environment
Program, the Bellerive Foundation, and the Dutch Police League-Interpol Wildlife
Crime Group. In 2009, Dr. McGreal received the Order of the British Empire for
her world-changing work. Prince Phillip commented on Dr. McGreal’s bravery
saying, "This is a very dangerous business and it takes real courage to collect
evidence, track smugglers and bring illegal dealers to justice." To learn more,
please visit: http://www.ippl.org/
Michael Mountain
Michael Mountain
co-founded Best Friends Animal Society and served as its President from 1984
until 2009. Under his leadership, Best Friends has become the nation’s largest
nonprofit organization for homeless companion animals. As President, Michael
created and spearheaded the No More Homeless Pets campaign to bring an end to
the killing of homeless pets in shelters. In the first eight years of this
campaign (1992 to the end of the decade), the number of animals killed in shelters in the U.S. dropped from 15
million a year to about 5 million. Michael is currently in the process of
developing a new organization, named Zoe (Greek for “Life”), and assembling a
team to tackle the wider, critical issues confronting all animals and the
natural world. You may contact Michael Mountain at:
michaelm@msn.com
Becky Robinson
Becky Robinson is President and Co-founder of Alley Cat Allies, the nation’s only advocacy organization dedicated to the
protection and humane treatment of cats. Under Ms. Robinson’s leadership, based
on years of hands-on investigation and expertise, Alley Cat Allies established
the first best-practice standards for Trap-Neuter-Return for feral cats in the
United States. She established three spay and neuter clinics in the Washington,
D.C. area that serve as models for feral cat veterinary care. Ms. Robinson and
Alley Cat Allies are recognized worldwide for their pioneering work. To learn
more, please visit: http://www.alleycat.org
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