Juliet Gellatley is a British writer andanimal rights activist. She is the founder and director ofViva! and a former director of theVegetarian Society. She is also a founding director of The Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation, now known asViva! Health, along withTony Wardle,[1] with whom she was married and has two sons, Jazz and Finn, born in 2002.[2][3]
She is the author ofThe Livewire Guide to Going, Being and Staying Veggie!,The Silent Ark: A Chilling Expose of Meat – The Global Killer, andBorn To Be Wild: The Livewire Guide to Saving Animals.
Gellatley was the winner of theLinda McCartney Award for Animal Welfare in 1999, sponsored by theDaily Mirror's Pride of Britain Awards.[4]
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 inzoology andpsychology, she became the Vegetarian Society's first youth education officer (1987 to 1993) and rose to become its director.
She launchedGreenscene, 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 ofVegetarian Issues: A Resource Pack for Secondary Schools, 1992.
In 2002, Gellatley co-authoredWhen Pigs Cry: A Report on the USA Pig Industry.[5]
Gellatley was one of several people who provided information used in the writing of the bookStriking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism (2008) byMark Hawthorne.
In 1997, Gellatley created a website to campaign against the culling ofkangaroos and the trade in theirmeat.[6] The Australian High Commission in London responded that it was, "a campaign based on false, emotive and outdated information," and that the meat was a by-product of a regulated cull to control the numbers of kangaroos that would take place anyway.[7]
In 2002, on the television show60 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 extended the campaign to the football industry, launching the "Killing for Kicks" campaign.[11] She has namedAdidas 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 retailerPets at Home agreed to discontinue the sale of dog treats that contained kangaroo meat.[14]
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.
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