Kim Stallwood
@kimstallwood.bsky.social
Animal Rights Author & Independent Scholar. The British Library holds my archive. Tier im Recht has my collection. Writing the biography of Topsy the Elephant.
MUST READ editorial from The Graun: The Guardian view on animal testing: we can stop sacrificing millions of lives for our own health. New technologies can reduce our reliance on animal experiments. [M]orally right [S]cientific and economic benefits too. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on animal testing: we can stop sacrificing millions of lives for our own health | Editorial
Editorial: New technologies can reduce our reliance on animal experiments. This isn’t just morally right, it could have scientific and economic benefits too
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November 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
MUST READ editorial from The Graun: The Guardian view on animal testing: we can stop sacrificing millions of lives for our own health. New technologies can reduce our reliance on animal experiments. [M]orally right [S]cientific and economic benefits too. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Follow me on Substack for free updates on my biography of Topsy the elephant; interviews with leading thinkers in vegan, animal rights; and thoughtful commentary on the animal rights movement based on 50 years of personal commitment and professional worldwide experience. kimstallwood.substack.com
Kim Stallwood’s Substack | Substack
Animal Rights Author, Scholar, Curator. Writing biography of Topsy the elephant. Vegan since 1976. Kim Stallwood Archive at British Library. Kim Stallwood Collection at Tier im Recht, Switzerland. Cli...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Follow me on Substack for free updates on my biography of Topsy the elephant; interviews with leading thinkers in vegan, animal rights; and thoughtful commentary on the animal rights movement based on 50 years of personal commitment and professional worldwide experience. kimstallwood.substack.com
My cultural awakening: Chicken Run turned me vegetarian, by Jess Burt in The Graun. Aardman’s tale of a group of plucky hens standing up to their pie-making masters was a favourite in our house, and – I realised – incompatible with my taste for burgers. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
My cultural awakening: Chicken Run turned me vegetarian
Aardman’s tale of a group of plucky hens standing up to their pie-making masters was a favourite in our house, and – I realised – incompatible with my taste for burgers
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
My cultural awakening: Chicken Run turned me vegetarian, by Jess Burt in The Graun. Aardman’s tale of a group of plucky hens standing up to their pie-making masters was a favourite in our house, and – I realised – incompatible with my taste for burgers. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
I’m impressed with the Food Empowerment Project’s webpage called Insects and Worms. As an ethical vegan organization, Food Empowerment Project naturally advises against eating all animals, including insects and worms. Please read more about Insects and Worms here: foodispower.org/animals-on-l...
Insects and Worms
Consider Insects and Worms In 2013, in studying the challenge of environmentally sustainable food security, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations landed not on a plant-base...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I’m impressed with the Food Empowerment Project’s webpage called Insects and Worms. As an ethical vegan organization, Food Empowerment Project naturally advises against eating all animals, including insects and worms. Please read more about Insects and Worms here: foodispower.org/animals-on-l...
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
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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?...
A CHANGE IN THE ROUTE, VIOLET (English Version)
YouTube video by Juan Faundez
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November 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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...
Charity and Social Justice
Ineffectual but well-intentioned
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November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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...
Human supremacism: why are animal rights activists still the “orphans of the left”?
Fighting dehumanisation is a central challenge for the left.
www.newstatesman.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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
November 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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/...
Life Changing - A traumatised veteran’s unlikely saviour - BBC Sounds
Veteran Geoff was plagued by PTSD - but an unusual partnership restored his independence.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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...
October 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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...
Kim Stallwood: The Conscience of the Animal Rights Movement
For nearly fifty years, Stallwood has bridged activism and scholarship, urging a movement defined not by outrage, but by empathy and intellect.
animalpolitics.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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...
She took chickens from a slaughterhouse. Was it a rescue or a crime?
Zoe Rosenberg, a California student, is on trial over a tactic that animal rights activists consider a moral imperative. Critics say it’s a threat to the food supply
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October 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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...
October 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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...
Kim Stallwood: The Conscience of the Animal Rights Movement
For nearly fifty years, Stallwood has bridged activism and scholarship, urging a movement defined not by outrage, but by empathy and intellect.
animalpolitics.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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.
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Inside Trump's Head - YouTube
New episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET, Saturdays at 2 p.m. ET. Character is destiny and no character has defined or deformed the 21st century more...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Question: What's my favourite podcast outside of vegan living and animal rights? Answer: Inside Trump's Head.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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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...
October 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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...
Q&A with Kim Smallwood - Vegan Authors
Kim Stallwood is an author, scholar and longtime leader in the animal rights movement. He is also founder and curator of a wealth of historical documents from the animal rights ... Read more
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October 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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...
How Industrial Slaughter Became the Blueprint for Modern Capitalism
Henry Ford learned mass production from slaughterhouses. A century later, our modern economy still resembles a meatpacking plant.
www.currentaffairs.org
October 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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...
October 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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...
Susan Griffin, a Leading Voice of Ecofeminism, Is Dead at 82
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October 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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...
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Veggie burgers’ could be off EU menu as MEPs back renaming plant-based foods
Proponents say move would strengthen position of farmers in supply chain but critics dismiss it as ‘hotdog populism’
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
‘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...
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
October 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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/...
Thousands take legal action over ‘widespread pollution’ of three UK rivers
Environmental group seeks damages from Welsh Water and two chicken producers, alleging responsibility for pollution in Wye, Lugg and Usk
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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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October 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
@lomadiah.bsky.social I’m a writer based in Hastings and interested in your find an agent class. Please email me at [email protected] thank you