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Kim Stallwood
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Animal Rights Author & Independent Scholar. The British Library holds my archive. Tier im Recht has my collection. Writing the biography of Topsy the Elephant.
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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
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
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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
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
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
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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
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
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
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
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
www.veganauthors.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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
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
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
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
‘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...
‘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
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
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
@lomadiah.bsky.social I’m a writer based in Hastings and interested in your find an agent class. Please email me at kim@kimstallwood.com thank you
October 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
BIG SHOUT OUT to the latest issue of the online animal rights magazine, Animal Culture. The latest issue features ecofeminist Carol J Adams, animal behaviourist Marc Bekoff, and bird and wildlife rescue. www.patreon.com/c/animalcult...
October 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
49 years ago this month, I began my international career in animal rights by becoming the campaign’s organiser (2nd f/t employee)of Compassion In World Farming. After 2 years as a vegetarian, prompted by working in a chicken slaughterhouse, I became a vegan at the beginning of 1976.
October 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
One looks with admiration. The other is inspired. Which is which doesn’t matter. la lutte continue
October 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Today Labour PM Keir Starmer speaks party's annual conference, I regret necessity to share this Graun report on relaxation of law about chickens. "Labour faces legal scrutiny after allowing chickens to be carried by legs." Labour must do better on many fronts. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Labour faces legal scrutiny after allowing chickens to be carried by legs
Practice was forbidden under EU law, but secondary legislation came into force in July permitting it in England, Wales and Scotland
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Today is the fifth anniversary of the Kim Stallwood Archive at The British Library. I recall how I persuaded the library to recognise the importance of animal rights and the value of my archive to be made publicly available to scholars, authors, advocates, and the public. kimstallwood.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds, reports The Graun. Sentient Media reveals that less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as a source of carbon emissions. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Topsy Dreams of Home Part Three. Imagining What Topsy Would Say. The baby elephant, who became Topsy in the United States, learns from her mother about why humans are their greatest danger. "They always smell of tobacco, alcohol, and death." kimstallwood.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM