Juliet Gellatley
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Juliet Gellatley is a British writer and animal rights activist. She is the founder and director of Viva! and former director of the Vegetarian Society. She is also one of the founding directors of The Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation [1] along with Tony Benn and Tony Wardle.
She is the author of The Livewire Guide to Going, Being and Staying Veggie!, The Silent Ark: A Chilling Expose of Meat - The Global Killer, and Born To Be Wild: The Livewire Guide to Saving Animals
Gellatley was the winner of the Daily Mirror’s first Pride of Britain Linda McCartney Award for Animal Welfare in 1999. [2]
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Gellatley became vegetarian at the age of 15 and has spent most of her life campaigning on behalf of animals. After obtaining a degree in zoology and psychology, she became the Vegetarian Society's first youth education officer (1987 to 1993) and rose to become its director.
She launched Britain's first youth campaign against factory farming, increasing the number of schools offering vegetarian meals from 13 per cent to 65 per cent. She launched Greenscene, Britain's only magazine for young vegetarians, and was its editor between 1987 to 1992. In October 1994, she launched Viva!, a vegetarian, vegan and animal rights charity for adults and young people. She was the editor and one of the authors of Vegetarian Issues: A Resource Pack for Secondary Schools, 1992.
In 2002, on the television show 60 Minutes,[citation needed] she exposed the illegal kangaroo slaughter in Australia. She successfully campaigned for the banning of kangaroo meat in the UK. She has now taken this campaign to Australia itself. She has extended the campaign to the football industry, naming Adidas as a company that uses kangaroo skin to make football boots, and successfully persuaded David Beckham and Michael Owen to drop their support for these shoes.[citation needed]
Gellatley wrote the text for the Animal Liberation Front and PETA film about "Britches." [3]
