Mark Gold (bornc. 1953) is an Englishanimal rights andveganism activist and writer. He has worked forCompassion in World Farming andAnimal Aid, organised vegan events and is the author of four books on animal issues, a novel and two books onWolverhampton Wanderers F. C. He is the founder of the charity the Vegan Compassion Group (formerly the Vegetarian Campaign Group).

Mark Gold was born inBirminghamc. 1953 and studied English atYork University.^[1]

Gold worked forCompassion in World Farming from 1978 to 1983, before becoming National Organiser. He was Director ofAnimal Aid for 12 years.^[2] In 1992, he directed the short filmTheir Future in Your Hands for Animal Aid.^[3] In 2017, Gold organised Animal Aid's three-week Vegan Festival of Britain.^[4] In 2021, he organised Exeter Vegan Market.^[5] He continues to work for Animal Aid and also works forCitizens Advice.^[6]

Gold has authored four books on animal issues:Assault and Battery: What Factory Farming Means for Humans and Animals (1983),Living Without Cruelty: Choose a Cruelty Free Lifestyle (1988),Animal Rights: Expanding the Circle of Compassion (1995) andAnimal Century: A Celebration of Changing Attitudes to Animals (1998).^[2]The Observer votedLiving Without Cruelty as one of the top green books of the period.^[6] In 2008, he published his first novelCranks and Revolutions, which won praise from the British politicianTony Benn.^[7] He has published two books onWolverhampton Wanderers F. C.:Under a Wanderers Star: Forty Pain Filled Years Following the Wolves (2002) andThe Boys from the Black Country (2010).^[6]

In 1986 Gold founded the Vegetarian Campaign Group, to "promote the ideals and practice of vegetarianism as a means of advancing the mental, physical and moral improvements of mankind". It has been since renamed to the Vegan Compassion Group, and promotes veganism. The charity operates in the UK, Nepal and Ethiopia.^[8]

As of 1995, Gold was living with his partner, Emily, and stepson, in Devon, close toHoniton.^[1]

• "If Slaughterhouses Had Glass Walls",Animals: A New Ethics, No. 271, March–April 2012

• Assault and Battery: What Factory Farming Means for Humans and Animals (Pluto Press, 1983)
• Living Without Cruelty: Choose a Cruelty Free Lifestyle (Green Publishing, 1988)
• Animal Rights: Expanding the Circle of Compassion (John Carpenter Publishing, 1995)
• Animal Century: A Celebration of Changing Attitudes to Animals (John Carpenter Publishing, 1998)
• Under a Wanderers Star: Forty Pain Filled Years Following the Wolves (Offwell Press, 2002)
• Cranks and Revolutions (Merlin Press, 2008)
• The Boys from the Black Country (SportsBooks, 2010)

• Tansey, Geoff; D'Silva, Joyce, eds. (1999),"Beyond the Killing Fields: Working Towards a Vegetarian Future",The Meat Business, Routledge, p. 16,doi:10.4324/9780429296819-21,ISBN 978-0-429-29681-9,S2CID 200201791

• "The Global Benefits of Eating Less Meat: A Report for Compassion in World Farming Trust" (Compassion in World Farming, 2004)

• Vegan Compassion Group (Mark Gold's charity)
• The Vegan Compassion Group - a presentation by Mark Gold

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