Andrew Tyler
Encyclopedia
Andrew Tyler is the director of Animal Aid
, the UK's second largest animal rights
organization (after PETA
). Tyler has been an animal rights campaigner and journalist for 30 years.
Animal Aid
Animal Aid, founded in 1977, is a British animal rights organisation. The group campaigns peacefully against all forms of animal abuse and promotes a cruelty-free lifestyle. It also investigates and exposes animal cruelty....
, the UK's second largest animal rights
Animal rights
Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of non-human animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings...
organization (after PETA
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is an American animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president. A non-profit corporation with 300 employees and two million members and supporters, it claims to be the largest animal rights...
). Tyler has been an animal rights campaigner and journalist for 30 years.
Works
- Big Pig http://www.animalaidshop.org.uk/fiction.htm
- with Peter Webbon. "Should the Grand National be axed for being too cruel?", The Guardian, May 4, 2006. http://sport.guardian.co.uk/horseracing/comment/0,,1746965,00.html
- "An Act that has failed to protect animals", The Independent, April 17, 2006. http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article358240.ece
- Don't be blinkered to the cruelty of racing, The Guardian, November 18, 2005.
- "Porton Down", Vegan Views, Autumn 2001.
- "Xenotransplantation", Genetic Futures News, undated, retrieved September 18, 2006.
- A National disgrace?, The Guardian, April 3, 2004.
Further reading
- Animal Aid
- CV for Andrew Tyler, McSpotlight.org; includes Tyler's witness statement to the McLibel caseMcLibel caseMcDonald's Corporation v Steel & Morris [1997] EWHC QB 366, known as "the McLibel case" was an English lawsuit filed by McDonald's Corporation against environmental activists Helen Steel and David Morris over a pamphlet critical of the company...
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