Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) is a charitable organization working for the vision of a world where animals are no longer raised or killed for food. Operating from our nation’s capital through a network of local activists, we conduct massive public awareness campaigns. We welcome all animal rights activists and all people who care about animals, the environment and would like to learn more about animal rights in both theory and practice. The Animal Rights National Conference has been organized since 2000 by the Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM).. FARM was also responsible for an earlier series of annual conferences, named Action For Life, between 1981 and 1987, as well as two special conferences in 1991 and 1997. FARM (Farm Animal Rights Movement) is a national nonprofit organization advocating for animal rights and veganism since 1981. Activism is big business, with the most active animal rights groups in the U.S. bringing in more than $550 million annually in income, said Hannah Thompson-Weeman of the Animal … Seven additional annual conferences followed in 1982 (San Francisco), 1983 (Montclair, NJ), 1984 (Washington, DC), 1985 (Los Angeles), 1986 (Chicago), 1987 (Cambridge, Massachusetts), and 1991 (Washington, DC). Animal rights conferences. FARM's 1981 first-ever animal rights conference laid the foundation for the U.S. animal rights movement. The Animal Agriculture Alliance gained insights at the 2019 Animal Rights National Conference that will help enable everyone in animal agriculture to protect their livelihood. The Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), which he started in 1976, says it is the US’s first organization dedicated to protecting animals raised, abused and killed for food. Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) has been working since 1976 to take animals off of the menu across the world. For many years, we were the only national animal rights organization fighting for farmed animals. Her years of experience as Managing Director of Farm Animal Rights Movement cultivated her administrative skills, financial management, and team-building. After Dr. Hershaft’s vegetarian conferences were repeatedly inundated with concerns about the lack of a guiding animal rights ethic, in 1981 he invited seasoned leaders of the established vegetarian movement as well as animal rights advocates to the first Action for Life conference. 2,210 talking about this. View the web-version of the program booklet here. Speakers from various animal rights organizations shared examples of … We operate from the nation's capital through a network of remote activists. This year, in addition to our normal panel sessions, we have these additional sessions: [Workshop] - Interactive presentations in which attendees will learn "hands-on" [Discussion] - Presentations in which the panel is discussing the […] The eleventh international animal rights conference in Luxembourg will take place from September 2nd to 5th, 2021, at the Kulturfabrik in Esch, Luxembourg. As Co-Chair of last year’s conference alongside longtime colleague, Dawn Moncrief, Jen is now taking on primary leadership of AR2019 as Conference Chair. Below you will find the schedule for the Animal Rights 2019 National Conference.