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The award-winning Animals Voice is the premiere online resource for helping animals. Along with our two dozen satellite sites and our magazine, we are the leading independent networking source of timely and broad-scale information about animal defense—and an incalculable volume of resources for animals and their defenders. We feature the latest animal rights news, recent media coverage, multimedia, calendar of events, victories, thought-provoking and inspirational editorial, graphic and compelling photography, and in-depth investigative reports. There isn’t anything else like us online or in print.
In a nutshell, Laura Moretti began producing The Animals Voice Magazine until she could no longer financially support it. Enter Tom Regan. After learning of the magazine’s situation, he put Laura in touch with independent businessman Gil Michaels—and it was a match made in Heaven.
As our Founder and Executive Editor Laura Moretti remembers it:
I first discovered Tom’s work when I was just out of high school, in a book titled, Animal Rights and Human Obligations, one he co-edited with Peter Singer. It was such a rare find that I checked it out of the library for weeks at a time just so I could carry it around with me and know there was another animal rights activist somewhere on planet Earth. The book became my companion, a conduit to my sanity—because, you see, in 1977, there wasn’t any such thing as an animal rights activist, to speak of, let alone an animal rights movement.
And suffice it to say, the town I was living in was a long way from progressive thinking, even for three decades ago. So it was quite unbelievable, I must admit, when the California State University, Chico, faculty invited Tom Regan to visit its campus in the spring of 1987, some ten years after I’d first discovered that such a man even existed—though better late than never, I say.
The year before Tom’s arrival, I’d begun production on a little—and little-known—newsletter I called The Animals Voice. Combining my skills in graphic design with my passion for animal defense, I did all I knew to help animals: educate others about their plight in human hands and rely on the human heart to do the rest.
Tom was kind enough to give me an interview; The Animals Voice was no booming publication, and the article was a short piece on civil disobedience. But I scraped up enough dollars to have a few thousand printed, and somehow that put us on the map.
Tom then suggested that I contact Gil Michaels, an activist in Los Angeles who had the funding to produce the newsletter as a magazine, but I didn’t have the courage to make such a call. I was a nobody from a small town in northern California, doing all I knew to do for animals, and I couldn’t imagine being worthy of anyone else’s effort. But Tom had faith in me even if I didn’t, and he had Gil call me instead!
Before I knew it, I was relocated to the big city of Los Angeles and, soon after, was producing an award-winning, internationally distributed, all-color animal rights magazine, and it was full steam ahead.
Because Tom Regan would never have told you this, I will: There wouldn’t be an Animals Voice without him. In any of its incarnations.
So, here’s to you, Tom. You will always be remembered. Forever. Plus one day.

The Animals Voice Magazine internationally
The award-winning Animals Voice is the premiere online resource for helping animals. Along with our two dozen satellite sites and our magazine, we are the leading independent networking source of timely and broad-scale information about animal defense—and an incalculable volume of resources for animals and their defenders. We feature the latest animal rights news, recent media coverage, multimedia, calendar of events, victories, thought-provoking and inspirational editorial, graphic and compelling photography, and in-depth investigative reports. There isn’t anything else like us online or in print.
In a nutshell, Laura Moretti began producing The Animals Voice Magazine until she could no longer financially support it. Enter Tom Regan. After learning of the magazine’s situation, he put Laura in touch with independent businessman Gil Michaels—and it was a match made in Heaven.

for the first time, January 16, 1987
As our Founder and Executive Editor Laura Moretti remembers it:
I first discovered Tom’s work when I was just out of high school, in a book titled, Animal Rights and Human Obligations, one he co-edited with Peter Singer. It was such a rare find that I checked it out of the library for weeks at a time just so I could carry it around with me and know there was another animal rights activist somewhere on planet Earth. The book became my companion, a conduit to my sanity—because, you see, in 1977, there wasn’t any such thing as an animal rights activist, to speak of, let alone an animal rights movement.
And suffice it to say, the town I was living in was a long way from progressive thinking, even for three decades ago. So it was quite unbelievable, I must admit, when the California State University, Chico, faculty invited Tom Regan to visit its campus in the spring of 1987, some ten years after I’d first discovered that such a man even existed—though better late than never, I say.
The year before Tom’s arrival, I’d begun production on a little—and little-known—newsletter I called The Animals Voice. Combining my skills in graphic design with my passion for animal defense, I did all I knew to help animals: educate others about their plight in human hands and rely on the human heart to do the rest.
Tom was kind enough to give me an interview; The Animals Voice was no booming publication, and the article was a short piece on civil disobedience. But I scraped up enough dollars to have a few thousand printed, and somehow that put us on the map.
Tom then suggested that I contact Gil Michaels, an activist in Los Angeles who had the funding to produce the newsletter as a magazine, but I didn’t have the courage to make such a call. I was a nobody from a small town in northern California, doing all I knew to do for animals, and I couldn’t imagine being worthy of anyone else’s effort. But Tom had faith in me even if I didn’t, and he had Gil call me instead!
Before I knew it, I was relocated to the big city of Los Angeles and, soon after, was producing an award-winning, internationally distributed, all-color animal rights magazine, and it was full steam ahead.
Because Tom Regan would never have told you this, I will: There wouldn’t be an Animals Voice without him. In any of its incarnations.
So, here’s to you, Tom. You will always be remembered. Forever. Plus one day.

The Animals Voice Magazine internationally
