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WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE THINK
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RECENT MUSINGS

Are Social Media Undermining Vegan Advocacy?

By Rayane Laddi A few months ago, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that one of his favorite past-time is “to create some of the highest quality beef in the world”. Indeed, he keeps a cattle of wagyu and angus beef on the...
READ MORE

Hindsight: On Civil Disobedience

Tom Regan interview by Laura Moretti • The Animals Voice • January 17, 1987 While speaking at the Schweitzer Center in Berkeley, CA, on behalf of animal rights, author/activist Tom Regan granted us an interview in return for a leisurely...
READ MORE

Animal Exploitation—The War Analogy

In my public talks over the years, I’ve frequently focused on how other animals are treated by the major animal abuser industries—commercial animal agriculture, biomedical research, entertainment businesses, including circuses and greyhound racing, for example. While what I will be...
READ MORE

The Torch of Reason

“Tom Regan’s impassioned speech combined the gentle torch of reason with the warrior’s sword of justice.” —Michael Bell, World Day for Lab Animals, April 24, 1988, Last Chance for Animals (LCA) rally at the foot of the Federal Building, Westwood, CA...
READ MORE

The Case for Animal Rights

How to proceed? We begin by asking how the moral status of animals has been understood by thinkers who deny that animals have rights. Then we test the mettle of their ideas by seeing how well they stand up under...
READ MORE

Animals Are Not Our Tasters

WE ARE NOT THEIR KINGS Heaven forbid that we should do to humans what now is being done to other animals. But heaven help us to stop doing these things to these animals. The last thing animals need are new...
READ MORE

OUR TEAM

Laura Moretti
animalsvoice@mac.com
Laura Moretti is the Founder and Editor of ‘The Animals Voice.’ She is also an author, animal rescuer, and lobbyist, as well as holds the title of various other forms of animal defense activism. For 10 years, Laura rescued horses for a sanctuary she operated in northern California. She has been an animal rights activist since the age of 10 and was inducted into the Animal Rights Hall of Fame in 2004.
A Contributor
contributor@animalsvoice.com
Over the decades, we have had the privilege of supporting the contributions of others (in photography, prose, poetry, and more) by giving them voice within our voice.
Horse Nation
horses@animalsvoice.com
Jim Mason
mason@animalsvoice.com
Jim Mason is an author and attorney who focuses on human/animal concerns. He’s written numerous books and articles about factory farming and alternatives, fair trade, buying local, organic farming, commercial fishing, and other food matters of concern to consumers today.
Joseph Connelly
joseph.connelly@animalsvoice.com
Joe Connelly is a contributing writer to The Animals Voice. He was also the founder and former publisher of ‘VegNews Magazine,’ the premier vegan lifestyle magazine in the U.S. Joe was inducted into the North American Vegetarian Society Vegetarian Hall of Fame in 2009 and the U.S. Animal Rights Hall of Fame in 2012.
Lisa Adair
ladair41@gmail.com
Lisa began volunteering for her county Democratic Party in 2017, working in its office to give people information on local races and candidates and organizing the office to run more efficiently. When Lisa discovered The Animals Voice in 2018, she didn’t hesitate to offer her proofreading services. She was also encouraged to write for the magazine—and found her voice in writing profiles of local animal sanctuaries, as well as penning essays.
The Animals Voice Magazine
4rights@animalsvoice.com
’The Animals Voice Magazine’ was published by The Animals Voice in print for the past 35 years and produced more than 100 issues. ‘The Animals Voice Magazine’ was also an award-winning, international publication exposing the plight of animals to a global audience—with its thought-provoking commentary, investigative reports, exclusive interviews, and much more.
The Animals Voice
news@animalsvoice.com
For more than 35 years, The Animals Voice has been an independent, award-winning, international repository of recent media coverage, campaign information, and life-changing commentary, serving as a timely networking agent for activists in the field, and making it an invaluable warehouse of resources for animal defenders around the world.
Tom Regan
regan@animalsvoice.com
Tom Regan was one of the founding fathers of the animal rights movement and the author of numerous books on animal rights, including ‘The Case for Animal Rights’ (1983). In these, he argued that non-human animals are ‘subjects-of-a-life’ and that “what happens to them matters to them.”
Susan Barzallo
barzallo@animalsvoice.com
Susan Barzallo is the News and Associate Editor of The Animals Voice. She was initially a biology major, but her inability to harm lab animals led her to a career in education. As an elementary and preschool teacher for twenty-five years, she tried to instill in young children respect and appreciation for the individuality, intelligence, and wonder of animals.
OUTSIDE SOURCE
mail@animalsvoice.com
Vegan Soul
vegan@animalsvoice.com

Over the years, The Animals Voice has shared its work with paid staff, volunteers, public and private donors, and a host of networking organizations. Below is merely a sampling of those who have made The Animals Voice what it is today.

Staff & Volunteers

Cole McFarland; Tom Regan; Constance Cwynar; Veda Stram; Randi Foxman; Michele Lamelin; Maida Henderson; Kenneth P. Stoller, MD; Edward S. Duvin; Sudhir Amembal; Gil Michaels; Nancy Perry; Judy Campbell-Broom; Dr. Richard McLellan; more to come…

Contributing Writers & Poets

Cleveland Amory; Lewis Regenstein; Tom Regan; Steve Grunow; Jim Mason; Farley Mowat; Jeremy Rifkin; Tama Burnham; Roger Galvin; Miv Schaaf; Barry Lopez; John B. Oakes; Todd Steiner; Paul Traxler; Paul Watson; Lorri Bauston; Randall Hayes; Paulette Callen; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Joyce Tischler; Luke Dommer; Chris DeRose; Virginia Handley; Steve Sapontzis; A. Peter Rasmussen; Beverly Armstrong; Mary MacDonald Lewis; Alex Hershaft; Kenneth J. Shapiro; Murry J. Cohen, MD; Donald Barnes; Jack Carone; Bernard Unti; Carol J. Adams; Rabbi Sidney Jacobs; Jay McDaniel; Kieran Mulvaney; Michael Tobias; Pat Derby; Gary Francione; Virginia McKenna; Mark Glover; David Day; Richard D. Ryder; Marjorie Spiegel; Kathie Flood; Paula Kislak; Alice Walker; Lynn Jacobs; Desmond Morris; Heathcote Williams; Hans Ruesch; Janet Riley; Stephen Siciliano; Gene Baur; Cres Vellucci; James L. Calderwood; Michael Klaper, MD; more to come…

Contributing Photographers & Artists

Bob Wyland; Bob Talbot; Brad Hicks; Briana Ackerman; Sue Coe; Charles Lynn Bragg; more to come…

Profiles & Interviews

Elaine Livesey-Favsel; River Phoenix; Dallas Pratt; Casey Kasem; Gweneth Snyder; Sue Coe; Season Hubley; Linda McCartney; Luke Dommer; Animal Liberation Front; Dexter Cate; Paul Watson; Sam LaBudde; Hunt Saboteurs Association; Michael Franks; Venice; Jim Clapp; Gene & Lorri Bauston; more to come…

Gil Michaels made news when he published
The Animals Voice Magazine internationally

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Laura Moretti
animalsvoice@mac.com
Laura Moretti is the Founder and Editor of ‘The Animals Voice.’ She is also an author, animal rescuer, and lobbyist, as well as holds the title of various other forms of animal defense activism. For 10 years, Laura rescued horses for a sanctuary she operated in northern California. She has been an animal rights activist since the age of 10 and was inducted into the Animal Rights Hall of Fame in 2004.
A Contributor
contributor@animalsvoice.com
Over the decades, we have had the privilege of supporting the contributions of others (in photography, prose, poetry, and more) by giving them voice within our voice.
Horse Nation
horses@animalsvoice.com
Jim Mason
mason@animalsvoice.com
Jim Mason is an author and attorney who focuses on human/animal concerns. He’s written numerous books and articles about factory farming and alternatives, fair trade, buying local, organic farming, commercial fishing, and other food matters of concern to consumers today.
Joseph Connelly
joseph.connelly@animalsvoice.com
Joe Connelly is a contributing writer to The Animals Voice. He was also the founder and former publisher of ‘VegNews Magazine,’ the premier vegan lifestyle magazine in the U.S. Joe was inducted into the North American Vegetarian Society Vegetarian Hall of Fame in 2009 and the U.S. Animal Rights Hall of Fame in 2012.
Lisa Adair
ladair41@gmail.com
Lisa began volunteering for her county Democratic Party in 2017, working in its office to give people information on local races and candidates and organizing the office to run more efficiently. When Lisa discovered The Animals Voice in 2018, she didn’t hesitate to offer her proofreading services. She was also encouraged to write for the magazine—and found her voice in writing profiles of local animal sanctuaries, as well as penning essays.
The Animals Voice Magazine
4rights@animalsvoice.com
’The Animals Voice Magazine’ was published by The Animals Voice in print for the past 35 years and produced more than 100 issues. ‘The Animals Voice Magazine’ was also an award-winning, international publication exposing the plight of animals to a global audience—with its thought-provoking commentary, investigative reports, exclusive interviews, and much more.
The Animals Voice
news@animalsvoice.com
For more than 35 years, The Animals Voice has been an independent, award-winning, international repository of recent media coverage, campaign information, and life-changing commentary, serving as a timely networking agent for activists in the field, and making it an invaluable warehouse of resources for animal defenders around the world.
Tom Regan
regan@animalsvoice.com
Tom Regan was one of the founding fathers of the animal rights movement and the author of numerous books on animal rights, including ‘The Case for Animal Rights’ (1983). In these, he argued that non-human animals are ‘subjects-of-a-life’ and that “what happens to them matters to them.”
Susan Barzallo
barzallo@animalsvoice.com
Susan Barzallo is the News and Associate Editor of The Animals Voice. She was initially a biology major, but her inability to harm lab animals led her to a career in education. As an elementary and preschool teacher for twenty-five years, she tried to instill in young children respect and appreciation for the individuality, intelligence, and wonder of animals.
OUTSIDE SOURCE
mail@animalsvoice.com
Vegan Soul
vegan@animalsvoice.com

Over the years, The Animals Voice has shared its work with paid staff, volunteers, public and private donors, and a host of networking organizations. Below is merely a sampling of those who have made The Animals Voice what it is today.

Staff & Volunteers

Cole McFarland; Tom Regan; Constance Cwynar; Veda Stram; Randi Foxman; Michele Lamelin; Maida Henderson; Kenneth P. Stoller, MD; Edward S. Duvin; Sudhir Amembal; Gil Michaels; Nancy Perry; Judy Campbell-Broom; Dr. Richard McLellan; more to come…

Contributing Writers & Poets

Cleveland Amory; Lewis Regenstein; Tom Regan; Steve Grunow; Jim Mason; Farley Mowat; Jeremy Rifkin; Tama Burnham; Roger Galvin; Miv Schaaf; Barry Lopez; John B. Oakes; Todd Steiner; Paul Traxler; Paul Watson; Lorri Bauston; Randall Hayes; Paulette Callen; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Joyce Tischler; Luke Dommer; Chris DeRose; Virginia Handley; Steve Sapontzis; A. Peter Rasmussen; Beverly Armstrong; Mary MacDonald Lewis; Alex Hershaft; Kenneth J. Shapiro; Murry J. Cohen, MD; Donald Barnes; Jack Carone; Bernard Unti; Carol J. Adams; Rabbi Sidney Jacobs; Jay McDaniel; Kieran Mulvaney; Michael Tobias; Pat Derby; Gary Francione; Virginia McKenna; Mark Glover; David Day; Richard D. Ryder; Marjorie Spiegel; Kathie Flood; Paula Kislak; Alice Walker; Lynn Jacobs; Desmond Morris; Heathcote Williams; Hans Ruesch; Janet Riley; Stephen Siciliano; Gene Baur; Cres Vellucci; James L. Calderwood; Michael Klaper, MD; more to come…

Contributing Photographers & Artists

Bob Wyland; Bob Talbot; Brad Hicks; Briana Ackerman; Sue Coe; Charles Lynn Bragg; more to come…

Profiles & Interviews

Elaine Livesey-Favsel; River Phoenix; Dallas Pratt; Casey Kasem; Gweneth Snyder; Sue Coe; Season Hubley; Linda McCartney; Luke Dommer; Animal Liberation Front; Dexter Cate; Paul Watson; Sam LaBudde; Hunt Saboteurs Association; Michael Franks; Venice; Jim Clapp; Gene & Lorri Bauston; more to come…

Gil Michaels made news when he published
The Animals Voice Magazine internationally

RECENT MUSINGS

Are Social Media Undermining Vegan Advocacy?

By Rayane Laddi A few months ago, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that one of his favorite past-time is “to create some of the highest quality beef in the world”. Indeed, he keeps a cattle of wagyu and angus beef on the...
READ MORE

Hindsight: On Civil Disobedience

Tom Regan interview by Laura Moretti • The Animals Voice • January 17, 1987 While speaking at the Schweitzer Center in Berkeley, CA, on behalf of animal rights, author/activist Tom Regan granted us an interview in return for a leisurely...
READ MORE

Animal Exploitation—The War Analogy

In my public talks over the years, I’ve frequently focused on how other animals are treated by the major animal abuser industries—commercial animal agriculture, biomedical research, entertainment businesses, including circuses and greyhound racing, for example. While what I will be...
READ MORE

The Torch of Reason

“Tom Regan’s impassioned speech combined the gentle torch of reason with the warrior’s sword of justice.” —Michael Bell, World Day for Lab Animals, April 24, 1988, Last Chance for Animals (LCA) rally at the foot of the Federal Building, Westwood, CA...
READ MORE

The Case for Animal Rights

How to proceed? We begin by asking how the moral status of animals has been understood by thinkers who deny that animals have rights. Then we test the mettle of their ideas by seeing how well they stand up under...
READ MORE

Animals Are Not Our Tasters

WE ARE NOT THEIR KINGS Heaven forbid that we should do to humans what now is being done to other animals. But heaven help us to stop doing these things to these animals. The last thing animals need are new...
READ MORE

OUR ADVERTISERS

“A universe is, indeed, to be pitied whose dominating inhabitants are so unconscious and so ethically embryonic that
they make life a commodity, mercy a disease, and systematic massacre a pastime and a profession.”

—J. Howard Moore
© 1986-2024 THE ANIMALS VOICE. • PLEASE SUPPORT US. WE CAN USE YOUR HELP.

FOUNDED BY LAURA MORETTI • INDUCTED INTO THE ANIMAL RIGHTS HALL OF FAME (2004).

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“A universe is, indeed, to be pitied whose dominating inhabitants are so unconscious and so ethically embryonic that they make life a commodity, mercy a disease, and systematic massacre a pastime and a profession.”

—J. Howard Moore
© 1986-2024 THE ANIMALS VOICE.
PLEASE SUPPORT US. WE CAN USE YOUR HELP.
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