“Why animal studies now?” asks Wendy Lochner, senior executive editor for Religion, Philosophy, and Animal Studies at Columbia University Press. “What is required,” she writes on her blog is no less than a radical rethinking of the nature of humanity itself as inextricably cojoined with our nonhuman kin and in common cause with them.” The increasing number of publishers, including Columbia University Press and its Animal Studies series, demonstrates the arrival of Human-Animal Studies as an important academic field. HAS scholars published by CUP include Gary Steiner, Cora Diamond, Cary Wolfe and Carol Adams.
Grumpy From Birth But Vegan Since 1976
Welcome to Grumpy Vegan
- Kim Stallwood is an independent scholar and author on animal rights. His forthcoming book, Animal Dharma, explores what it means to care deeply about animals. Starting in 1976, he has held leadership positions with some of the world’s foremost organisations in the UK and US, including CIWF, BUAV, PETA, The Animals’ Agenda, Animals and Society Institute and Minding Animals International. A vegetarian since 1974 when as a student he worked in a chicken slaughterhouse. A vegan since 1976. His evil twin is the Grumpy Vegan.
