Lorri Bauston is Co-founder
of Farm Sanctuary, the nation's largest farm animal
rescue and protection organization. Among her efforts
for farm animals, Bauston established the first shelter
in the country for victims of "food animal" production
after finding a live sheep abandoned on a stockyard "deadpile" in
1986.
As Farm Sanctuary Executive Director,
Bauston directed the organization's fundraising and
development programs, and the organization grew from
a membership of three - to an organization of over
100,000 members and an annual budget of $3.5 million.
Bauston directed the opening and building of the organization's
New York and California shelters, and she has been directly responsible for
saving over 5,000 farmed animals from the cruelties of "food animal" production,
coordinating hundreds of rescue efforts, and bringing national attention
to farmed animal rescue and protection efforts.
She has appeared on Primetime Live, CBS
Sunday Morning, CBS This Morning, CNN and been interviewed
for feature stories in The New York Times, The Los
Angeles Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and National
Public Radio.
Bauston is currently living in Los Angeles, California, where she is also assisting
newly
forming animal rights organizations and rescue groups with their organizational
and development programs.
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Josephine Bellaccomo With
10 years professional communications experience,
Josephine is a trainer, executive coach and specialist
in delivering presentations and crafting powerful messages
for the media. She has been an animal rights activist
in New York City for more than 8 years, working with
national and grassroots groups to promote veganism
and to educate consumers about the fur trade and circuses.
She is the author of Move the Message: Your Guide
to Making a Difference and Changing the World (Lantern
Books), winner of PETA's Award for Best Social Cause
Book of 2004.
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Michael Budkie is head
of Stop Animal Exploitation Now! (SAEN), which he also
founded, which focuses on animal research issues. Michael
has had articles commissioned by the National Anti-Vivisection
Society, the American Anti-Vivisection Society, the
New England Anti-Vivisection Society, Animals Agenda
Magazine, and Animals Voice Online . He has also
done consulting work for the New England Anti-Vivisection
Society, The Humane Society of the United States, and
the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
His work has led to the end of pound seizure in Nashville,
TN and Dayton, OH. He launched a campaign
in Dayton with the People/Animals Network against Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base using primates in endotracheal intubation
(Wright-Patterson currently lists no usage of primates).
The work he did on exposing problems at Wright-Patterson
was included in bringing about congressional hearings
into the use of animals by the military. Michael's
work, combined with the work of others for In Defense
of Animals (IDA), brought about two federal hearings
into animal experimentation by the U.S. military. He
also coordinated World Laboratory Animal Week for IDA,
and directed its campaign against Procter & Gamble
for three years. Michael is also a member of
the Coalition to End Primate Experimentation and an
organizer of the two nationwide Primate Freedom Tours. He
worked for In Defense of Animals for several years
in research and on the campaign against Procter & Gamble's
animal testing. He has also worked for Last Chance
for Animals, and was co-founder of the National Activist
Network.
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Karen Davis, Ph.D., is founder
and President of United Poultry Concerns, Inc. At the
University of Maryland, where she received her Ph.D.
and taught in the English department for twelve years,
Karen founded the Animal Rights Coalition, and also
pioneered a course on the role of animals in the Western
philosophic and literary tradition in the University
Honors Program. In 1990, Karen founded United Poultry
Concerns, a nonprofit organization that promotes the
compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic
fowl and includes a sanctuary. In 1999, she
won the Ark Trust Genesis Award for Outstanding
Newspaper Feature for 1999, and in 2002, she was inducted
into the U.S. Animal Rights Hall of Fame "for
outstanding contributions to animal liberation."
Karen is the author of A Home for Henny; Instead
of Chicken , Instead of Turkey: A Poultryless
'Poultry' Potpourri ; Prisoned Chickens , Poisoned
Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry ;
and More Than a Meal: The Turkey in History,
Myth, Ritual, and Reality (Lantern Books 2001).
Karen's next book is The Holocaust and the Henmaid's
Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities (2005).
Karen is the founder and editor of PoultryPress,
the quarterly magazine of United Poultry Concerns.
Karen has published
in The New York Times, New Yorker, Wall Street
Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Columbus
Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Harper's Magazine,
Atlantic Monthly, Nation, Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles
Times, "Dear Abby," Egg Industry, Feedstuffs ,
and has appeared on the Howard Stern Show. Karen
has essays in Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical
Explorations (Duke UP, 1995), Terrorists
or Freedom Fighters: Reflections on the Liberation
of Animals (Lantern Books, 2004), and Animal
Liberation Philosophy and Policy Studies Journal Vol.
2, No. 2 (Center on Animal Liberation Affairs, 2005).
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Marti Kheel, Ph.D. is a
writer and activist in the areas of animal liberation,
environmental ethics and ecofeminism. Her articles
have been translated into several languages and have
appeared in numerous journals and anthologies--viz.,
Environmental Ethics, Between
the Species, The Journal of the Philosophy of Sport
as well as Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism,
Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism,
Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, and Nature, Animal Rights
and Human Obligation, and Covenant for a New Creation.
Kheel developed an early feminist critique of the philosophical
dualisms between environmental ethics and animal liberation
in a 1984 article entitled "The Liberation
of Nature: A Circular Affair." Originally
published in Environmental
Ethics, the article has since been widely cited
and republished in several anthologies. Over the years,
her primary goal has been to develop an ecofeminist
philosophy that is capable of bridging the seemingly
disparate movements and philosophies of feminism, animal
liberation, environmental ethics, and holistic health.
In 1982, Kheel co-founded Feminists for Animal Rights
in the hopes of bridging the divisions between the
feminist and animal advocacy movements. She has Masters
Degrees in Women's Studies and Sociology and received
her doctorate in religious studies from the Graduate
Theological Union in 2000.
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Rich McLellan M.D. is director
of the Animal Legislative Action Network, a political
action committee dedicated to getting animal friendly
candidates elected and consulting with other animal
advocates to help them create local animal dedicated
political action committees. He retired as a
Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician to pursue
his first love, animal advocacy, and has worked since
1994 to educate politicians about the power of the
animal advocacy community and to educate animal advocates
about the efficacy of the political process to accomplish
the goal of animal rights.
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Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D. is
the author of Judaism and Vegetarianism, Judaism
and Global Survival, and Mathematics and Global
Survival . He has over 100 articles on the Internet
at jewishveg.com/schwartz, and frequently speaks and
contributes articles on environmental, health, and
other current issues. He is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
at the College of Staten Island, President of the Jewish
Vegetarians of North America (JVNA), and Coordinator
of the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians
(SERV).
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