Rita McMahon
December 19, 2022
From the time she was a child Rita McMahon had a passion for helping wild things, nursing tiny birds and rabbits and mentored by the local vet. It was no...
Advocate Origin Stories
Megan K.
December 19, 2022
Although I had seen leaflets handed out on my college campus and heard animal rights messages in the past, the documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine is what first deeply moved me....
David Ebert, ADP Co-Founder
December 15, 2022
Read Time: 2.5 hours, uninterrupted. Too long for anyone to read in full. But selective skimming will cut your read time to just under 2 hours. As a Kid The emotional connection...
Anonymous Animal Advocate
December 15, 2022
One year in what seems like another life, I temporarily relocated to the UK for a work assignment involving an acquisition in Sheffield. It was a small town surrounded by farm...
Dr. Marilyn Kroplick
December 15, 2022
Dr. Marilyn Kroplick's passion for animal rights was ignited in 2002 after purchasing a puppy from a pet store who became terribly sick. Her fight for justice led her to...
Dr. Elliot Katz
December 15, 2022
In early 1983, veterinarian Dr. Elliot Katz was contacted by animal activists and discovered scandalous conditions inside UC Berkeley's animal laboratories - an event that changed animal protection history. Living...
Fleur Dawes
December 15, 2022
I grew up around animals. My aunt lived next to a field of dairy cows and I just loved them. I fed them grass over the fence and was entranced by...
Nivi Jaswal
December 13, 2022
In August 2020, I sat numb in a Main Street Vegan Academy class, secretly hoping that I'd get by without much participation when Jasmin Singer declared she was going to...
Sangita Iyer, B.Sc. M.A. EEC, PGD Journalism
December 13, 2022
During the production of Gods in Shackles film, Sangita was deeply saddened by the plight of Kerala's festival elephants. She realized that there was a significant lack of awareness regarding...
Amruza (Aryenish) Birdie
December 13, 2022
I never know where to "start the story" but you could say it was in the late 70s when my parents fell in love being the only two people they knew...