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Alex Hershaft
Hershaft in 2015
Born
(1934-07-01) 1 July 1934 (age 89)
Warsaw, Poland
Nationality
American
Education
Ph.D, Inorganic Chemistry
Alma mater
Iowa State University
Occupation(s)
Entrepreneur, author, activist
Known for
Co-founding the U.S. animal rights movement
Website
farmusa.org
With Israeli President Rivlin, May 2015
Alex Hershaft is an American animal rights activist, Holocaust survivor, and co-founder and president of the Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM),[1][2] the nation's oldest (1976) organization devoted exclusively to promoting the rights of animals not to be raised for food. Previously, he has had a 30-year career in materials science and environmental consulting and a prominent role in movements for religious freedom and environmental quality.
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AlexHershaft is an American animal rights activist, Holocaust survivor, and co-founder and president of the Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), the nation's...
been organized by Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM). In the 1970s, AlexHershaft started noticing that animal rights people were attending his vegetarian...
scale". Another Holocaust survivor who has written on the subject is AlexHershaft, now a vegan activist, who also compared the treatment of livestock...
accounts for 98% of all animal abuse and slaughter. FARM was co-founded by AlexHershaft in 1976 as the Vegetarian Information Service to distribute information...
stepping-stone between meat eating and veganism, is only a stepping stone." AlexHershaft, co-founder of the Farm Animal Rights Movement and Holocaust survivor...
(July 2012). "The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness". Halberstadt, Alex (3 July 2014). "Zoo Animals and their Discontents". The New York Times Magazine...
Today, 29 January 2015. "Holocaust Survivor Heads Animal Rights Group AlexHershaft Throws Himself into Cause" Archived 21 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine...
venues around the country. One of their most prominent speakers is Dr. AlexHershaft, a holocaust survivor and the founder of the animal advocacy organization...
soccer star Alex Morgan". Reuters. 27 March 2019. "World Cup winner Alex Morgan is vegan for the animals". 8 July 2019. "Soccer star Alex Morgan is a...
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