Chris Gale

I believe in fostering a new ethic that incorporates humane values and progressive social change.

I reject and campaign against the sexism and misogyny prevalent in some parts of the animal advocacy movement.

Contact me on: 07840 529218

"The work Chris Gale and others are doing to bring awareness of the cruelty of bloodsports is impressive--and much, much needed. For over a century now, the political Left has tragically failed to make the connection between social injustice and animal rights. Only now, thanks to the courageous efforts of a small but growing number of activists, is that connection being made. Our treatment of other animals is not only unspeakably cruel and unfeeling--it also lies at the root of today's global ecological and social crisis. A civilization that would organize and treat as 'normal' the mass killing and exploitation of millions of other sensitive beings cannot be considered a true civilization. Nor, out of such a barbaric form of culture, is it reasonable to hope for the dawning of an authentic ecological ethic. For in viewing other animals as things to be used and disposed of at our will we in essence deny that the natural world has any value in itself, apart from our uses of it. In this way we doom ourselves, and the other beings too, to catastrophe. Yet to my mind, the political dimension of the problem is equally profound. I speak of our implicit claim to having an absolute species right over the minds and bodies of all other sentient beings. There is only one word for the absolute domination and extermination of one group of powerless individuals by another, vastly more powerful group, and that word is fascism. It is against the universal fascism of human over and against nonhuman beings that increasing numbers of Labour, Left, and feminist activists rally today, and we must support them in every way that we can."

John Sanbonmatsu, Associate Professor, Humanities and Arts, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts.