50 Years of Vegan Animal Rights Activism: The Dreaded Comparison. 50 Years of Vegan Animal Rights Activism. Join me throughout 2026 as I celebrate 50 Years of Activismt. One year each week. In 1988, I was PETA’s first executive director and read Marjorie Spiegel’s The Dreaded Comparison.

MUST READ: What the James Talarico Vegan Story Reveals About U.S. Politics, by Jan Dutkiewicz. Centuries ago, Thomas Paine envisioned a country free of arbitrary rule—from both monarchy and religion. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

Read on Substack for free my introduction to Topsy. I became aware of her when I saw “Electrocuting an Elephant” in 1981. The anger I felt was matched only by my inability to understand why anyone would want to kill an elephant in such a cruel way. kimstallwood.substack.com

Join me in 10 weeks at the UK Animal Law Conference at Birmingham University, UK, 3-4 June. My keynote presentation is “Preserving the History of Animal Law and Animal Rights.” www.alaw.org.uk/animal-law-c...

50 Years of Vegan Animal Rights Activism. Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act. Join me throughout 2026 as I celebrate 50 Years of Activism as a vegan and animal rights activist. One year each week. In 1987, I moved to the USA to work as PETA's first executive director. kimstallwood.substack.com

Read my 37th interview with authors on Substack. Kendra Coulter's The Tortoise’s Tale is about a giant tortoise whose life of more than 100 years is closely associated with the people who also live on the same property, set against the background of the history of the US. kimstallwood.substack.com

50 Years of Vegan Animal Rights Activism. Join me throughout 2026 as I celebrate 50 Years of Activism as a vegan and animal rights activist. One year each week. I visit the United States to meet with PETA. I leave BUAV at the end of 1986, after eight turbulent but productive years.

Read for free on Substack about why I believe, in the words of Audre Lorde, “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” kimstallwood.substack

MUST READ: If plant-based foods must be more honest, let’s do the same for meat – fancy some ‘cow muscle’? Deirdra Barr asks in The Graun. EU rules banning terms such as ‘bacon’ for veggie products are problematic, btw cow muscle = steak. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

50 Years of Vegan Animal Rights Activism. Monkey Cruelty Prosecution. Join me throughout 2026 as I celebrate 50 Years of Activism as a vegan and animal rights activist. One year each week. In 1985, BUAV successfully prosecuted the Royal College of Surgeons for cruelty to monkeys. Growl (Lantern).

A MUST READ: Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals? asks The NYT. By manipulating animals to do wonderful things, we may become numb to their real wonder. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

Some of the spinach and leeks we harvested today from our vegan, organic allotment in Hastings, East Sussex, with the help of our lovely neighbour, Kate.

2026 marks the 50th anniversary of my life as a vegan and my full-time work for animal rights. I became a vegetarian in 1974 after working in a chicken slaughterhouse. Raising animals to produce food is insane economics and is food waste writ large. kimstallwood.substack.com.

Read my 36th interview with authors of books on vegan living and animal rights for free on Substack. Jordi Casamitjana’s new book, Why Vegans Don’t: A philosophical guide to vegan behaviour, explores whys / hows of living as a vegan. Personal anecdotes. Practical advice. kimstallwood.substack.com

WAR IS BACK - Animals Lebanon Emergency Appeal. Wars kill, injure, and displace animals, too. Please help Animals Lebanon, if you can. www.animalslebanon.org

In London this weekend? Then, you must visit the Ealing Animals Fair on Saturday March 7. Now in its 47th year! Free admission. Speakers. Exhibits. Food. And much more! www.ealinganimalsfair.london

Read for free on Substack about Chunee, the male Asian elephant, who lived in Regency London. Featured in Lord Byron’s journal. Mentioned in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. Chunee was murdered in March 1826. Shot at close range. 152 bullets. Imagined here by Sue Coe. kimstallwood.substack.com

I’m so over Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, and men with guns drunk on politics and religion. How long shall these things last?

50 Years of Vegan Animal Rights Activism. The Case for Animal Rights. Join me throughout 2026 as I celebrate 50 Years of Activism as a vegan and animal rights activist. One year each week. Elected to the RSPCA's National Council. Volunteered with The Vegan Society. Read my book Growl (Lantern).

Here’s another photo I took at the National Trust’s Kingston Lacy, which it describes as a “lavish family home re-imagined as a Venetian Palace in the rural Dorset countryside.” It’s the end of February, and winter is slowly turning into spring, but there’s still a long way to go.

We made a return visit to the National Trust’s Kingston Lacy, which it describes as a “lavish family home re-imagined as a Venetian Palace in the rural Dorset countryside.” We walked through the large kitchen garden and discovered an old wisteria growing alongside one of the buildings.

Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer, reports The Graun. Study shows lower risk for multiple myeloma as well as pancreatic, prostate, breast and kidney cancers. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Read for free at my Substack page the exciting news that every copy of The Animals' Agenda magazine from 1979 to 2002 is now available online to read. Understand the animal rights movement by reading its history as reported in the pages of The Animals' Agenda. kimstallwood.substack.com

We are enjoying a couple of days away, staying in a rented National Trust cottage in Corfe Castle, Dorset. Here’s a view of the Corfe village from the Norman castle. Construction of the castle began in AD 1090. Both our families separately visited Corfe Castle when we were children.

50 Years of Vegan Animal Rights Activism. Join me throughout 2026 as I celebrate 50 Years of Activism as a vegan and animal rights activist. One year each week. I represent BUAV with a coalition of like-minded organisations to launch The Animals’ Platform for the coming general election.

‘Doubling down on meat’: is the UK’s love affair with vegetarian food over?, asks The Graun. McDonald’s, Wagamama and others scale back plant-based choices in the UK in favour of ‘high-margin’ meat-led dishes. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Beef and lamb get 580 times more in EU subsidies than legumes, study finds, reports The Graun. Report says common agricultural policy provides ‘unfair’ levels of support to unhealthy, meat-heavy diets. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Kyiv zoo braves blackouts and bombardment to keep animals warm, reports The Graun. Staff are using stoves and generators to keep lions, camels and Ukraine’s lone gorilla safe from winter and war. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f.... I oppose zoos, and I'm also concerned that wars kill animals, too.

Read for free my 35th interview with authors of books about vegan living and animal rights. Governing Bodies by Sangamithra Iyer is an exceptional example of a book that offers insight into what it means to live as a vegan and campaign for animal rights. kimstallwood.substack.com

50 Years of Vegan Animal Rights Activism. Join me throughout 2026 as I celebrate 50 Years of Activism as a vegan and animal rights activist. I worked with Lawrence & Beavan to launch a major publicity campaign, “Every Six Seconds [...].” Read my book Growl (Lantern). Visit kimstallwood.substack.com

Senior police praised undercover officer who lied to court about identity, papers at spycops inquiry show, reports The Graun. Jim Boyling gave evidence under his fake identity during prosecution of activists he had infiltrated. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Valentine’s Day is often wrapped in roses and romance, but love has always been bigger than that. Love is action, solidarity, and believing that every person deserves liberation. 🌎💓

Every animal is Aloka. We are all Aloka.

Read for free on Substack a brief extract from my biography of Topsy the elephant. The End of the Road for Topsy the Elephant: The Final Chapter of Her Life Begins. open.substack.com/pub/kimstall...

Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK, reports The Graun. Supreme court makes ruling after Swedish firm’s long-running battle with trade association Dairy UK. Methinks that all meat should always be called CORPSE FLESH. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A HUGE shout-out for the Animal Culture Magazine and its February 2026 issue. This issue of the online magazine includes articles about sharks, pet poison prevention month, coexistence with wildlife, and the work of artist Jane O’Hara, “Animals as Individuals.” Visit www.patreon.com/c/AnimalCult...

50 Years of Vegan Animal Rights Activism. Join me throughout 2026 as I celebrate 50 Years of Activism as a vegan and animal rights activist. In 1981, I visited the USA twice, speaking at animal rights conferences, and relaunched BUAV’s anti-vivisection campaigns. More at kimstallwood.substack.com

Read for free my 34th interview with authors of books about vegan living and animal rights. Yuan-Chih (Mona) Lung is the author of two books and an independent publisher of Chinese-language books. She is the Chairperson of the Taiwan Human-Animal Studies Institute. kimstallwood.substack.com

50 Years of Vegan Animal Rights Activism. Join me throughout 2026 as I celebrate 50 Years of Activism as a vegan and animal rights activist. In 1980, I met PETA's co-founders, Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco, on my first visit to the USA. BUAV also fired me! Read more at kimstallwood.substack.com

2026 is the 50th anniversary of being a vegan, animal rights activist. The animal industrial complex is responsible for the deaths of 400,000 animals in fires on factory farms in the United States. As a vegan, I save the life of one animal every day. kimstallwood.substack.com

Please read this important story: She Fought a Book Ban. She May Never Teach Again. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

‘Humanity’s favourite food’: how to end the livestock industry but keep eating meat, writes Damian Carrington in The Graun about Bruce Friedrich’s new book, Meat. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The beauty of the East Sussex countryside on the last day of January, 2026, was a momentarily warm, sunny day, but it quickly became cold again.

Read for free on Substack How My Understanding of Animal Ethics Evolved, which led me to see Why Peter Singer isn’t the Father of Animal Rights. kimstallwood.substack.com

Grief over pet death can be as strong as that for family member, survey shows, reports The Graun. Researcher calls for guidelines for diagnosing prolonged grief disorder to be expanded to cover people who lose pets. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

50 Years of Vegan Animal Rights Activism. In 1979, I Supported Fay Funnell’s Anti-Fur Protest in London’s Oxford Street. My photo shows Fay watching the mink fur coat burn after she’d just bought it in a sale. Join me throughout 2026 as I celebrate 50 Years of Activism. kimstallwood.substack.com

Preserving the History of Animal Law and Animal Rights is the title of my keynote presentation at the 6th annual UK Animal Law Conference at the University of Birmingham on 3-4 June 2026. Co-hosted by the UK Centre for Animal Law and The Multispecies Collective. www.alaw.org.uk/animal-law-c...

Read for free on Substack my latest interview with authors of books about veganism and animal rights. In the Lament of Hathor, Samuel Baca-Henry links attitudes toward animals in ancient Egyptian civilisations with those today. An "intense and otherworldly" book. kimstallwood.substack.com

Having learnt from bitter experience NOT to invest a living individual with the status of personal hero, this NYT profile on the attorney and author Philippe Sands affirms my respect, but not heroic status, for him and his lifetime’s work for social justice. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/m...

‘Meat tax’ could have significant impact on environmental footprint, study finds, reports The Graun. Full VAT on meat products could cost EU households as little as €26 a year but cut impact by 3-6%, says paper. www.theguardian.com/environment/...