I am a #vegan environmentalist working on the Plant Based Treaty campaign. I co-founded Toronto Pig Save with my dog Mr. Bean in late 2010. In the 1990s, I was involved in old growth forest protection campaigns in Clayoquot Sound and the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia. I did a PhD in political studies at the University of Toronto on the topic of green learning, drawing on models from the early American labour movement and civil rights movement and with environmental case studies on the climate crisis and old growth forests. I currently am ED of Animal Save Movement, a global network of chapters in which activists bear witness to pigs, cows, chickens, horses, rabbit, ducks, turkey and other farmed animals at the front gates of slaughterhouses with the aim of encouraging people to go vegan and become activists. I co-authored a book "The Secret Lives of Pigs" (Lantern). I work mainly on policy and system change via the cities and global campaign of the Plant Based Treaty.
