Languages: English
Location: Birmingham, UK
Web: www.AndrewKnight.info
Overview
Australian-British bioethicist Andrew Knight has been an active animal advocate ever since helping launch Australia's campaign against the live sheep trade to the Middle East, in the early 1990s. He is a Spokesperson for Animals Count — a UK political party for people and animals, and the Director of Animal Consultants International — which provides multidisciplinary expertise for animal advocacy campaigns. He is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, holds a post-graduate Certificate in Animal Welfare Science, and is a Diplomate of the European College of Animal Welfare & Behavioural Medicine – a European veterinary specialist college – in the sub-speciality of Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law. He is also a Consultant Editor for the Journal of Animal Ethics. He practices veterinary medicine in the UK, and is licensed or eligible for licensure to practice in the US, Australia and several other countries. He enjoys adventure sports such as mountaineering, and travel photography.
Publications & presentations
Andrew has over 50 scientific and 30 popular publications on animal issues, including animal cognitive abilities and resultant moral implications, animal experimentation and alternatives, animal use in biomedical education, the animal welfare standards of veterinarians, the contributions of animal agriculture to climate change, and vegan companion animal diets. He has presented on animal issues at over 30 universities and conferences internationally. His studies on animal experimentation and educational animal use have attracted a series of conference awards, a PhD listed for academic excellence in 2010, and also formed the basis of his book, The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments, published in 2011 within the Palgrave Macmillan Series on Animal Ethics. Andrew's key publications and speaking topics are provided at www.AndrewKnight.info.
Campaign websites
- www.VegePets.info: comprehensive information about the health and nutritional aspects of vegan companion animal diets.
- www.AnimalExperiments.info: published scientific studies and governmental reports examining the human predictivity of animal experiments, laboratory animal welfare, and describing non-animal alternatives.
- www.HumaneLearning.info: hundreds of educational studies describing humane alternatives to harmful animal use in biomedical education — including reviews comparing learning outcomes obtained via harmful animal use, with those obtained via humane teaching methods; and related resources.
