Announcing the return of my biweekly series of author interviews early in 2026. Future interviews will continue to focus on authors of new books about animal rights, veganism, and related social justice issues. kimstallwood.substack.com

Culture & Animals Foundation (2025) grantee Juan Faundez completed his animated short film A Change in the Route, Violeta. For the piglet, she becomes his only salvation, and yet the piglet is acutely aware of who among his family. youtu.be/UiZJDW2CIkQ?...

Why do I believe vegan, animal rights advocates have one arm tied behind their backs? Charities and campaigning groups aren’t effective social justice vehicles. That’s why. kimstallwood.substack.com/p/charity-an...

MUST READ: Human supremacism: why are animal rights activists still the “orphans of the left”? Fighting dehumanisation is a central challenge for the left. By Will Kymlicka and Sue Donaldson in The New Statesman, 30 April 2019. www.newstatesman.com/politics/201...

Read my Sunday rant about billionaires for free on my Substack Notes page. "All these billionaires. All this greed for more money. All this power play for political and economic control..." kimstallwood.substack.com/notes

This is a link to a fascinating and moving story of a British army veteran who, while fighting in the Falklands War, was traumatised by the smell of meat when he associated it with wounds his colleagues received in battle. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

What do I have to say about animal rights? My biggest influences? When I worked in a chicken slaughterhouse? Why I became a vegan in 1976. Animal rights movement making progress? Read for free when Animal Politics with Ed Boks interviewed me on Substack. animalpolitics.substack.com/p/kim-stallw...

Learn who/what my biggest influences. Read about when I was PETA’s first executive director. My thoughts on animal rights/movement development. Read for free when Animal Politics with Ed Boks interviewed me on Substack. animalpolitics.substack.com/p/kim-stallw...

She took chickens from a slaughterhouse. Was it a rescue or a crime? by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow in The Graun. She took chickens from a slaughterhouse. Was it a rescue or a crime? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Please join me at the Vine Virtual Book Club to discuss my book, 2025: The Year of Topsy, on Sunday, October 26, at Noon (LA) or 3 pm (NY) or 7 pm (London). Please register to confirm your attendance and receive a free PDF of my book. vinesanctuary.org/vine-book-cl...

Read for free the Animal Politics with Ed Boks Substack interview. Learn what my biggest influences are. How my animal rights philosophy changed. Advice on working in animal rights. And much more. animalpolitics.substack.com/p/kim-stallw...

Question: What's my favourite podcast outside of vegan living and animal rights? Answer: Inside Trump's Head. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Please join me at the Vine Virtual Book Club to discuss my book, 2025: The Year of Topsy, on Sunday, October 26, at Noon (LA) or 3 pm (NY) or 7 pm (London). Please register to confirm your attendance and receive a free PDF of my book. vinesanctuary.org/vine-book-cl...

Vegan Authors is dedicated to writers whose writing advocates for animals, animal protection and/or vegan ways of living. Its website is open to all and has just published an interview with me about my animal rights work, including Topsy the elephant. www.veganauthors.com/2025/10/15/q...

MUST-READ article by Vasile Stanescu on Current Affairs called "How Industrial Slaughter Became the Blueprint for Modern Capitalism". Vasile introduces an important concept: slaughterhouse capitalism. www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-ind...

Please join me at the Vine Virtual Book Club to discuss my book, 2025: The Year of Topsy, on Sunday, October 26, at Noon (LA) or 3 pm (NY) or 7 pm (London). Please register to confirm your attendance and receive a free PDF of my book. vinesanctuary.org/vine-book-cl...

I’m sorry to read about the passing of Susan Griffin in today’s New York Times. Two of her books, Woman and Nature and Made from This Earth, made a profound impact on me when I read them in the 1980s. In the UK, both are published by The Women’s Press. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...

‘Veggie burgers’ could be off EU menu as MEPs back renaming plant-based foods, reports The Graun. Proponents say move would strengthen position of farmers in supply chain but critics dismiss it as ‘hotdog populism’. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The last in my series of five articles looking back on interviews with authors of books about animal rights and vegan living. Today's theme is Narrative. Books with strong narratives of social justice for animals embedded in them. kimstallwood.substack.com

This is an EXCITING development: Thousands take legal action over ‘widespread pollution’ of three UK rivers, reports The Graun. Environmental group seeks damages from Welsh Water and two chicken producers, alleging responsibility for pollution in Wye, Lugg & Usk. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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BIG SHOUT OUT to the latest issue of the online animal rights magazine, Animal Culture. The latest issue features ecofeminist Carol J Adams, animal behaviourist Marc Bekoff, and bird and wildlife rescue. www.patreon.com/c/animalcult...

49 years ago this month, I began my international career in animal rights by becoming the campaign’s organiser (2nd f/t employee)of Compassion In World Farming. After 2 years as a vegetarian, prompted by working in a chicken slaughterhouse, I became a vegan at the beginning of 1976.

One looks with admiration. The other is inspired. Which is which doesn’t matter. la lutte continue

Today Labour PM Keir Starmer speaks party's annual conference, I regret necessity to share this Graun report on relaxation of law about chickens. "Labour faces legal scrutiny after allowing chickens to be carried by legs." Labour must do better on many fronts. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Today is the fifth anniversary of the Kim Stallwood Archive at The British Library. I recall how I persuaded the library to recognise the importance of animal rights and the value of my archive to be made publicly available to scholars, authors, advocates, and the public. kimstallwood.substack.com

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds, reports The Graun. Sentient Media reveals that less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as a source of carbon emissions. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Topsy Dreams of Home Part Three. Imagining What Topsy Would Say. The baby elephant, who became Topsy in the United States, learns from her mother about why humans are their greatest danger. "They always smell of tobacco, alcohol, and death." kimstallwood.substack.com

Elephant Appreciation Day is today, 22 September 2025. Of course, every day deserves to be Elephant Appreciation Day. And every day, our compassion for animals leads us to live as vegans to help all animals, people, and the Earth. Read for free my dream for elephants at kimstallwood.substack.com.

From animals in research to animals on racetracks, animal festivals to animals in agriculture, animals are exploited by the billions across the world. Read about my interviews with authors who exposed animal abuse and campaigned for animal liberation. kimstallwood.substack.com

140 years ago today, the first animal international superstar, the male African elephant called Jumbo, was accidentally struck and killed by a train in St. Thomas, Ontario. Learn more about the Topsy Project at kimstallwood.substack.com.

Mary, a female Asian elephant, toured the USA with the Sparks World Famous Circus. An industrial derrick hung Mary at a railyard in front of 2,500 plus people on September 12, 1916. She killed her keeper, who beat her after she picked up a watermelon during circus parade. kimstallwood.substack.com

Topsy Dreams of Home Part Two. Imagining What Topsy Would Say. The baby elephant, who became Topsy in the United States, learns from her mother in a Southeast Asia jungle about the Elephant Mind. kimstallwood.substack.com

Goodbye, Misty, the most-watched cat in the world. You had a glossy black coat with a white chest, matching white socks on your front feet, and a splash of white on your nose. kimstallwood.substack.com

From Sue Coe to Zoe Weil via pattrice Jones, read about my interviews with these and other authors and their books about social justice. kimstallwood.substack.com

‘They’re beautiful’: 13-year-olds lead audacious project to save harvest mice in Devon, reports The Graun. Read the article to learn why harvest mice are at risk. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Topsy Dreams of Home Part One. Imagining What Topsy Would Say. The baby elephant who became Topsy dreams of growing up in the jungle in Southeast Asia. kimstallwood.substack.com

Interesting article in The Graun by best-selling author, Adele Parks. She writes about how her decision to become a vegetarian at 16 taught her to take decision-making seriously throughout her life. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Met up with Martin and Jessica Ullrich, with their son, Noah, and Jessica’s mother, Frederica, at Sissinghurst Castle. Martin is Professor of Interdisciplinary Music Research and Human-Animal Studies at Nuremberg University of Music. Jessica is an art historian at University of Fine Arts in Munster.

Obviously, not a vegan editorial, but, for the Graun, which has a history of hostility to animal and vegan issues, an op ed that’s worth reading. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Discover the seven authors of books about animal ethics I interviewed recently. The diversity of these authors and their books on ways to think about our relationship with other animals and the natural world is wide and deep (philosophy, spirituality, politics, feminism). kimstallwood.substack.com

Remembering Tyke, the African elephant, shot to death on the streets of Honolulu, Hawaii, on this day, 20 August, in 1994. Read for free on my Substack at kimstallwood.substack.com.

48 years ago today, I was attending the Animals’ Rights conference at Trinity College, Cambridge, organised by the RSPCA. My first opportunity to hear Richard Ryder, Brigid Brophy, Clive Hollands, John Bryant, Andrew Linzey, and many others speak out for animals. kimstallwood.substack.com

Topsy's Voice Part Four. Imagining What Topsy Would Say. She is in chains after killing a man who attacked her a couple of days ago. She climbs out of the Forepaugh Circus train. However, she is forced to defend herself against another man who approached with a large stick. kimstallwood.substack.com

Daniel Humm ‘pondered the meaning of hospitality, he said, and realized that restaurant’s vegan dogma had become exclusionary.’ Exclusionary for whom? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/d...

I answer five questions about Topsy on World Elephant Day. Available to read for free on Substack. kimstallwood.substack.com/p/five-quest...

MUST READ article from The Graun about Lek Chailert and the Elephant Nature Park, which she founded for rescued elephants in Thailand in 2003. I dream of visiting one day. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Discover the seven authors of books about vegan living I interviewed recently. The diversity of these authors and their books on the positive impact of living as a vegan reflects how this compassionate approach to life is rich in meaning and purpose. kimstallwood.substack.com

Topsy's Voice Part Three. Imagining What Topsy Would Say. Topsy describes her life travelling across the United States on the Forepaugh Circus Train. kimstallwood.substack.com

Me and Misty tonight.