American animal welfare advocate
Patti Strand is the founder of the National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA), a broad-based, mainstream, nonprofit animal welfare organization dedicated to encouraging high standards of animal care and treatment, and to preserving the human animal bond. She is an author of books and articles and has served on numerous local, state and federal animal welfare advisory boards, committees and task force bodies.
Background.
Her articles and views on animal welfare and public policy have appeared in a wide variety of trade, professional and scientific magazines and lay publications, ranging from the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and the Washington Post to the AKC Gazette, Veterinary Forum, Wall Street Journal and the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.
She has been a guest expert and panelist on dozens of radio talk shows including National Public Radio, the BBC and CBC; TV news shows including NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox News, and has been a featured speaker at conferences for zoos, state and national veterinary groups, physician groups, lab animal scientists, kennel clubs and federations; and agricultural, hunting and humane associations.
Works and achievements.
Patti Strand is actively involved in numerous animal organizations and some of her contributions and achievements are:
Criticism of animal rights.
Strand is a critic of animal rights and has argued that the humane movement has been highjacked by animal rights extremists, "whose priority is neither the humane care of animals nor the prevention of cruelty to animals, but instead, the promotion of a revolutionary value system which redefined man’s relationship with animals. Animal rightists want to end man’s use of animals altogether."
In 1993, Strand co-authored "Animal Rights and Wrongs: The Hijacking of the Humane Movement", which argues that the animal rights movement is an anti-democratic new age cult that seeks to eliminate man's total use of animal's including pets and private property. A criticism of the book is that Strand ignored the diversity of opinion amongst animal rights activists and failed to distinguish the animal rights movement from the environmental movement. Adrian R. Morrison a noted proponent of animal experimentation defended the book.
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