Advocate Origin Stories

This is a story of how one hour changed my destiny. At 18 years old, I read a pocket-sized book called Arnold Ehret’s Mucusless Diet Healing System. The book explained what…

At age 14, I was sitting in my high school freshman French class, learning to say the names of farmed animals (e.g. “truie”), their noises (“groin groin!”), and their cuts…

My epiphany arrived in 2019, during a back-to-back trip to Africa and Israel.  In Ethiopia, my driver asked me why I stopped the cab to go over and hug the…

I took a gradual but steady path toward understanding how wrong it was, for me, to eat animals. I suppose the seed was planted when I was a very young…

My concern for aquatic animals started towards the end of my undergraduate degree in environmental science when I was completing a work placement as a Biomonitoring Technician for the Ontario…

When my wife and I met back in 1966, we already knew we were rising in love. It was a time of staying up just about all night and talking,…

I became vegan at the age of 34. That was 43 years ago, upon meeting Gentle World, a non-profit vegan educational organization. Little did I know at the time that…

My journey to veganism It was 1972 when I started my vegetarian journey. I was at WelMet summer camp at age 12. (Howard Stern was a counselor and kitchen boy…

Vet school at Onderstepoort thrust me directly into the therapeutic heart of animal exploitation, still convinced that meat was the most essential component of our diet, and that animals needed…

I’ve known since I was a little girl that i wanted to work with animals. I started riding horses at 7 yrs old.  I’ve always been more comfortable around animals than…

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…

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….