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12 year-old founder of Lobby For Animals: The Mozart of Animal Rights

12 year-old founder of Lobby For Animals: The Mozart of Animal Rights

By on June 3, 2013

When I learned of Thomas Ponce I was blown away. You mean to tell me that a 12-year-old started his own lobbying group? And was the regional coordinator of Fin Free Florida? I can’t recall what I was doing at

Exclusive interview with Fermare Green Hill campaign

Exclusive interview with Fermare Green Hill campaign

By on May 3, 2013

On April 20, a group of activists from Fermare Green Hill campaign entered a pharmacology lab at the University of Milano, Italy. Very quickly, news spread on social media. If you were like me, you spent the day reading updates

Vegan poet Gretchen Primack is my Kind of people

Vegan poet Gretchen Primack is my Kind of people

By on April 13, 2013

  Kind is a new book of poetry by Gretchen Primack, who co-authored The Lucky Ones with Jenny Brown, released last year. Kind is filled with thoughtful, poignant and touching poems about how we treat and mistreat animals. Gretchen’s poetry

A vegan Passover seder, or “veder”

A vegan Passover seder, or “veder”

By on March 23, 2013

  Last year I sent Jewish media a pitch about our second vegan Passover seder. My hope was that I would be able to get some attention for ethical veganism around the holiday. Our veder made it in an article

Celebrating World Vegan Day 269 style

Celebrating World Vegan Day 269 style

By on November 2, 2012

For World Vegan Day 2012, 269 organized a worldwide campaign to honor all animals who are part of the organized exploitation and murder of animals for food, clothing, entertainment and “research.”. Hundreds of activist across the globe tattooed 269 as

More from 269: The Animal Rights Movement

More from 269: The Animal Rights Movement

By on October 22, 2012

  In part one of this series, I spoke with a representative of the group 269 about their action on World Farm Animals Day, where they were branded with a hot iron with the number of an anonymous calf in

269: The interview

269: The interview

By on October 16, 2012

  I saw a video come through my feed a few days after World Farm Animals Day. I don’t generally click on videos, but the words “branded by hot steel” in the title intrigued me. I was immediately mesmerized by

Kristoff’s happy cows and happy slaves

Kristoff’s happy cows and happy slaves

By on September 10, 2012

Op-ed writer Nicholas Kristoff’s Sunday piece “Where Cows Are Happy and Food is Healthy” explains that there are farms across the United States where the farmers love their animals, where the farms still have souls, unlike those big, bad factory

Gary Smith – The Thinking Vegan – Swedish interview

Gary Smith – The Thinking Vegan – Swedish interview

By on August 31, 2012

(Original interview by Camilla Johansson – http://annorlundararing.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/gary-smith-the-thinking-vegan/)   Gary Smith is co-founder of Evolotus, a PR agency working for a better world. Evolotus specializes in health and wellness, spirituality, animal protection, natural foods, documentary films, non-profits and socially beneficial companies.

The Thinking Vegan interview with Philip Wollen

The Thinking Vegan interview with Philip Wollen

By on July 31, 2012

Like most of us, I discovered Philip Wollen by watching the video of a debate called “Animals Should Be Off the Menu” last May. I was mesmerized by his oratory skills and the passion in which he described the absolute

Welfarism vs Abolitionsim: a healthy debate

Welfarism vs Abolitionsim: a healthy debate

By on July 8, 2012

As the late Rodney King exclaimed, “Can’t we all just get along?” Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be a blog post about how infighting is the scourge of the animal rights movement and that animals are dying because of