Click on this link to watch a BBC TV report on the conviction of Devon huntsman, Christopher Marles, 48, of Farringdon, for deliberately assaulting an animal rights activist. He used his horse to knock Helen Weeks to the ground as she filmed the East Devon Hunt. Marles faces a prison sentence after being found guilty of deliberately assaulting an animal rights activist. The hearing was at Honiton magistrates heard. Marles is serving a suspended sentence for attacking another hunt monitor when the Weeks assault happened in March 2008. Marles admits assault but denies he intended to hurt her. He will be sentenced next month.
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.
