The Animals Voice was first published as a six-page newsletter for the state of New Jersey—when Laura Moretti, its founder and editor lived there—as a means to unite the state’s humane organizations for that ‘strength in numbers’ philosophy Laura so believes in. She published three issues before she and the staff of then-Agenda magazine met over a meal in Bridgeport, CT. Seems they all had the same idea: to foster unity among animal defenders nation- and worldwide with a magazine.

Laura then suspended production of The Animals Voice in order to devote her time and effort to redesigning Agenda and helping to get it rolling on a national level. The new look worked and Agenda became a household word among animal rights activists who, until then, had felt alone in the world with their feelings and thoughts about animal rights.

Agenda then outgrew itself; its new editors and production goals forced Laura to abandon it and return to her personal passion: The Animals Voice.

Renaming it The Animals Voice Magazine: The California Connection, Laura began producing the publication for the state of California, to unite its some 300 animal welfare and rights organizations; Laura had just moved back to her high school hometown and immediately set to work on the magazine. Six issues into production and the magazine found a new publisher in activist Gil Michaels, a generous businessman in Los Angeles who published it internationally for six years.

Still kicking, but in a different way…

For more than 30 years, The Animals Voice Magazine remained true to its original purpose: to be independent of any organization so it was free to report the news, campaigns, goals, philosophies, and other outreach messages from any and all groups working on behalf of animals around the world.

It also retained its promise to ‘not hold back’ when it came to exposing the atrocities committed against animals. Its photography, as well as its editorial, was strong.

More than 100 issues of The Animals Voice Magazine were published since its inception. On more than one occasion, the magazine had to suspend production—either because it didn’t have the funding to continue at that specific time or because its founder and editor, Laura Moretti, had to time-out, such as when she suspended magazine publishing for half a year in order to teach herself web design and production. Now, as did the magazine, the web site reaches a worldwide audience.

The Animals Voice debuted online in 2000. With a generous grant from Sudhir Amembal, a former publisher and Board of Directors president of The Animals Voice, Laura was able to teach herself web design. Nearly 25 years ago, The Animals Voice arrived online.

Like its magazine, The Animals Voice web site remains true to its promise to animals: to be independent of any organization, so that it can bring its worldwide audience the news of every organization, the campaigns and action alerts of every organization, the struggles and the victories of every organization. The Animals Voice is beholden to no one—except animals.