Kristy Alger

Kristy Alger is an activist, concerned citizen and mother of three living in lutruwita/Tasmania. She is the current president of Animal Liberation Tasmania and strives to live her life according to the principles of consistent anti-oppression.

Articles

• The Resistance of Animals

  Thu 19 November 2020, 2:34pm

  Animals are capable of being the agents of their own resistance against human exploitation; but what happens after is up to us.
• Facts Based Advocacy: we need to get it right

  Tue 13 October 2020, 9:41pm

  Social media has created an environment supportive of the sharing of disinformation. For the sake of other animals it is imperative that we get it right.
• Recognising the Animal Industrial Complex

  Wed 23 September 2020, 9:15pm

  The animal industrial complex exerts significant influence over all of our lives. We need to understand how it operates, and search out ways to dismantle the secrecy upon which it...
• Where Is Yandina?

  Mon 13 July 2020, 5:00pm

  An industry funded by public monies is obligated to guarantee the lives of horses leaving the industry.
• Focus vs. Scope: deconstructing “animals only” ideology within the animal rights movement

  Sun 7 June 2020, 10:27pm

  The global Black Lives Matter uprisings have thrown ideological divisions within the animal rights movement into stark relief.
• Slaughterhouses aren't safe, for anyone.

  Tue 19 May 2020, 5:50pm

  Whilst non-human animals should remain at the forefront of the conversation, the ongoing Cedar Meats case highlights the inherently unsafe nature of slaughterhouses as workplaces.
• Mother's Day: celebration or exploitation?

  Thu 7 May 2020, 9:42pm

  The way we celebrate motherhood is causing harm to humans, non-human animals and the environment.
• RSPCA Tasmania, Jan Davis, and the direction of the society

  Fri 1 May 2020, 8:59pm

  With a new CEO who views non-human animals as commodities, it has become apparent that RSPCA Tasmania has strayed far from its roots even as a welfarist organisation, hampered by...
• Dominion Anniversary Action Hobart 2019: a reflection

  Wed 8 April 2020, 8:30pm

  Why were we there? And what has happened in the year since?
• Tasmania, Pandemic and the Exploitation of Non-human Animals

  Wed 8 April 2020, 8:20pm

  As further social restriction measures are implemented across Tasmania in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, industries and individuals that rely on the exploitation and slaughter of non-human animals for profit...
• Defending Takayna: the Animal Rights Perspective

  Mon 30 March 2020, 1:55pm

  The first time I ever walked into an operational slaughterhouse it was like a punch to the soul. The sight of so many beings lined up to be killed, the...
• The revival of McCarthyism and the scapegoating of activists to undermine broader civil liberties

  Sat 28 March 2020, 1:54pm

  McCarthyism: a mid-20th century political attitude characterised chiefly by opposition to elements held to be subversive and by use of tactics involving personal attacks on individuals by means of...