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Dr Jeanette Rowley is a consultant leading authority on veganism and law and has led the promotion of the legal rights of vegans for over a decade. She is the founder and chair of The Vegan Society’s International Rights Network (formerly The International Vegan Rights Alliance established in 2012). She manages The Vegan Society’s rights, and advocacy service and recently introduced The Vegan Society’s education function to promote a rights-based approach to much-needed vegan-inclusive education for all pupils.

Jeanette conducted and published a groundbreaking survey in 2013 on vegans’ experiences of equality and in 2014 published Vegan Rights: Questions and Answers. She contributed a chapter in a volume published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016, published Toward a Vegan Jurisprudence: the need for a reorientation of human rights in 2020, and in 2021 published Vegan Freedom of Conscience Around the World with co-Editor Dr Carol Prisco. She has also contributed countless blogs and articles to various organisations.

Over the last decade, Jeanette has held conferences around the world on vegan legal issues and inspired and mentored vegan campaigners and lawyers helping them to consider the use of available legal measures to advance veganism and protect vegans. She has defended the rights of vegans to practice veganism whether at work, school, and college or when in the care or control of other state authorities, and has had a significant impact on equality policy in both the public and private sectors. She has successfully dealt with countless formal grievances, achieved out-of-court settlements, been involved in employment tribunals, provided consultancy to solicitors and barristers as well as intervened in vegan cases at the European Court of Human Rights. She has also engaged with high-profile international initiatives including promoting the rights of vegan children to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Jeanette is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Religion and Belief Network. She is an advisor to Vegan Option Canada and an honorary member of The Hungarian Vegan Society.


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Mark Randell spent 30 years in the UK police, retiring as a senior detective responsible for tackling serious crime and terrorism through investigations and international collaboration. This included gun and narcotic operations, homicides, and human trafficking. His focus was criminal motivation, analysis, and policing strategy.

Since retirement, Mark has carried out covert investigations and training around the world on crimes against animals. This work has reached Australia, Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. In addition, Mark has been involved in documentaries for the BBC and Vice News and regularly features in the media as a subject expert.

Now, with a UK based charity, Naturewatch Foundation, he collaborates with police officers, prosecutors, and politicians globally to highlight the relevance of animal-based crimes within society, helping to develop legislation and policy that keeps both animals and people safer.


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Professor David Clough is a British author and academic with a focus on the Christian vegetarian and Christian vegan movements. He is Professor of Theological Ethics in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Chester and a Methodist preacher. He is also the founder and a co-director of the CreatureKind project which focuses on the welfare of farmed animals as a faith issue.

He is the author of a number of books on animal rights and in particular the use of animals for food including his two-volume monograph entitled On Animals Volume 1, Systematic Theology (2011) and On Animals Volume 2, Systematic Theology (2018). These can be purchased at https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/on-animals-9780567632869/ and https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/on-animals-9780567660862/ respectively. 

He was also co-editor of the collection of essays Creaturely Theology: on God, Humans and other animals (2009). He has written articles on the ethics of the use of animals for food, including Consuming Animal Creatures: The Christian Ethics of Eating Animals (2016) published in Studies in Christian Ethics.

David has given a number of keynote speeches and has been a participant in many public debates including a debate with Peter Singer on the theology and ethics of the treatment of non-human animals.

We met back in 2019 when David very kindly spoke at the University of Law on a panel I chaired on Animal Ethics. I am enthused and a keen supporter of the great work that David is doing in the field of Religion, Ethics and Animal Welfare. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Clough


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John Oberg is a social media influencer and animal advocate dedicated to making the world a kinder place for animals by utilizing the power of social media. In late 2018, he launched his own independent, patron-funded program for animals through Patreon to maximize his impact, redefining animal advocacy in the social networking spaces. Previously, he served as Director of New Media for The Humane League and as Director of Communications for Vegan Outreach. Since launching his project, he has accumulated hundreds of millions of impressions of his content across social media. He recently launched an online course called Mastering Twitter to Change the World.

Links:

Twitter course: https://advocacycollab.com/mastering-twitter/

Official website: JohnOberg.org

Patreon Page: Patreon.com/JohnOberg

Donate: Donorbox.org/JohnOberg

Twitter: Twitter.com/JohnOberg

Instagram: Instagram.com/JohnOberg

Facebook: Facebook.com/JohnObergOfficial

YouTube: YouTube.com/user/JohnOberg

Email: johnsigfridoberg@gmail.com


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Shireen Kassam is a Consultant Haematologist at King’s College Hospital, London with a specialist interest in lymphoma. She is passionate about promoting plant-based nutrition for the prevention and reversal of chronic disease. Shireen also works at Winchester University where she provides the UK’s first University course on plant-based nutrition.

Shireen discovered the power of plant-based nutrition in 2013 and has since immersed herself in the science of nutrition and health, including completing the eCornell certification in plant-based nutrition. She is a board-certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician and a certified CHIP (Complete Health Improvement Program) practitioner. Shireen founded Plant-based health professionals UK in 2017, a non-profit membership organisation that provides evidence-based education on plant-based nutrition. In January 2021, Shireen co-founded and launched the UK’s first regulated, online, plant-based lifestyle medicine healthcare service, Plant Based Health Online.

Plant-Based Health Professionals UK https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com

Plant Based Health Online https://plantbasedhealthonline.com

Winchester University Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate https://www.winchester.ac.uk/study/further-study-options/short-courses/plant-based-nutrition/


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It was a pleasure to speak with Jordi again. Jordi spoke about his journey as an Ethical Vegan, drawing parallels with the suppression of Catalonia under General Franco and the violation of human rights to his natural innate empathy with the animal world. He draws on his experience as a zoologist and connecting with a wasp as a being in its own right to recognising the complex ecosystem that animals and human cohabit on this planet. This is all discussed in his recent book Ethical Vegan. 

Originally from Catalonia, but resident in the UK for several decades, Jordi Casamitjana is a vegan zoologist specialising in animal behaviour, who has been involved in different aspects of animal protection for many years (working for organisations such as The Born Free Foundation, Wild Futures, The League Against Cruel Sports, CAS International, the International Fund for Animal Welfare and PETA UK). In addition to scientific research he has worked as an undercover investigator and animal welfare consultant. Some of his professional achievements include the closure of several zoos, securing the first successful prosecutions of illegal hunters under the Hunting Act 2004, and his participation in the banning of bullfighting in Catalonia. Jordi, who has been vegan since 2002, recently become well-known for securing the legal protection of all ethical vegans from discrimination in Great Britain in a landmark legal case that was discussed all over the world. Jordi is also an author of a novel titled "The Demon's Trial" and the soon to be published book "Ethical Vegan, a personal and political journey to change the world".

Here are my websites and social media:

Website: http://jordi-casamitjana.animal-protection-consult.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/veganjordi

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jayseecosta

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jayseecosta/?hl=en

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordi-casamitjana-36586a15/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Jordiwasp

My book: https://septemberpublishing.org/product/ethical-vegan/


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