Juliet Gellatley
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| Occupation | Writer • animal rights activist |
| Years active | 1987–present |
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| Movement | Animal rights |
Juliet Gellatley is a British writer and animal rights activist. She is the founder and director of Viva! and a former director of the Vegetarian Society. She is also a founding director of The Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation, now known as Viva! Health, along with Tony Wardle,[1] with whom she was married and has two sons, Jazz and Finn, born in 2002.[2][3]
She is the author of The Livewire Guide to Going, Being and Staying Veggie!, The Silent Ark: A Chilling Expose of Meat – The Global Killer, and Born To Be Wild: The Livewire Guide to Saving Animals.
Gellatley was the winner of the Linda McCartney Award for Animal Welfare in 1999, sponsored by the Daily Mirror's Pride of Britain Awards.[4]
Career
[edit]Gellatley became vegetarian at the age of 15 and has spent most of her working life campaigning on behalf of animal rights. After obtaining a degree in zoology and psychology, she became the Vegetarian Society's first youth education officer (1987 to 1993) and rose to become its director.[citation needed]
She launched Greenscene, Britain's only magazine for young vegetarians, and was its editor from 1987 to 1992. In October 1994, she launched Viva!, a registered charity that campaigns for vegetarian and vegan lifestyles and promotes animal rights. She was the editor and one of the authors of Vegetarian Issues: A Resource Pack for Secondary Schools, 1992.[citation needed]
In 1997, Gellatley created a website to campaign against the culling of kangaroos and the trade in their meat.[5] The Australian High Commission in London responded that it was "a campaign based on false, emotive and outdated information" and that the meat was a by-product of a regulated cull to control the numbers of kangaroos that would take place anyway.[6]
Gellatley was the winner of the Linda McCartney Award for Animal Welfare in 1999, sponsored by the Daily Mirror's Pride of Britain Awards.[4]
In 2002, Gellatley co-authored When Pigs Cry: A Report on the USA Pig Industry.[7]
In 2002, on the television show 60 Minutes,[8] she talked about the "illegal" killing of kangaroos in Australia, and in 2006 wrote "'Under Fire' A Viva! Report on the Killing of Kangaroos for Meat and Skin".[9] She subsequently took the campaign to Australia itself.[10]
Gellatley was one of several people who provided information used in the writing of the book Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism (2008) by Mark Hawthorne.[citation needed]
Gellatley extended the campaign to the football industry, launching the "Killing for Kicks" campaign.[11] She has named Adidas as a company that uses kangaroo skin to make football boots.[12]
As of June 2018, kangaroo meat has been removed from all UK supermarkets.[13] The same year, pet supplies retailer Pets at Home agreed to discontinue the sale of dog treats that contained kangaroo meat.[14]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ↑ "Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation". Vegetarian.org.uk. Archived from the original on 20 October 2006. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
- ↑ "VIVA! - Vegetarians International Voice for Animals - Vegsource.com". www.vegsource.com. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ↑ "Meet the Author". Viva! - The Vegan Charity. 19 August 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- 1 2 "Vegetarians International Voice for Animals – Star Supporters". Viva!. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
- ↑ "Save the Kangaroo". SaveTheKangaroo.com. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
- ↑ "Kangaroo Meat Campaigners Use 'False Information'". prnewswire.co.uk. 24 July 1998. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
- ↑ Ornelas, lauren; Gellatley, Juliet (2002). "When Pigs Cry: A Report on the USA Pig Industry" (PDF). Viva!USA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 September 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
Piglets are very fond of play. They chase one another, play-fight, are affectionate, tumble around, and generally enjoy themselves. They do not grow into normal pigs when deprived of play.
- ↑ "Vegetarians International Voice for Animals". Viva!. Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
- ↑ "Untitled Document". SaveTheKangaroo.com. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
- ↑ Vaughan, Claudette. "Juliet Gellatley's rebuttal", Abolitionist Online. [dead link]
- ↑ Archived 17 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Untitled Document". SaveTheKangaroo.com. Archived from the original on 26 February 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
- ↑ "Kangaroo Campaign History". Viva! - The Vegan Charity. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
- ↑ "Victory for Viva! as Pets at Home Drops Kangaroo Meat —". Viva! - The Vegan Charity. 21 September 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
External links
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- Viva!
- "Do-It-Yourself Destiny", Gellatley interview with Tony Wardle, Viva! associate director and editor.
- "The green room: Juliet Gellatley, animal rights advocate", The Guardian, 3 January 2008.
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