Rick Bogle

Rick Bogle worked as a writer/researcher for several national animal rights organizations from 1999 to 2009, and then as co-Director of the Madison, Wisconsin-based Alliance for Animals from 2009-2013. He has spoken about animals’ rights and the use of animals in science at workshops, seminars and conferences for the past 20 years.

Rick stopped eating animals in 1972, and has been an outspoken animal rights activist since 1997. While teaching at a rural middle school in eastern Oregon, Rick learned about the publicly-funded experiments being conducted on monkeys and chimpanzees across the county. What he learned altered the course of his life. In 1997, and again in 1999, he toured the country protesting at the labs and speaking about the ethical problems inherent in using animals as disposable tools for science. Coauthored with his wife Lynn Pauly, one of his books, Teaching Kindness, chronicles a controversy over insects and spiders that filled his last year of teaching.

Rick blogs at primateresearch.blogspot.com.