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Kristy Alger

Kristy Alger is an animal rights activist from lutruwita/Tasmania. She is currently the key organiser for Animal Liberation Tasmania, and head campaigner for Defund Tasracing. Alger is a published author, releasing Five Essays for Freedom: a political primer for animal advocates in 2020.
Articles
- Tasmanian Dairy - History repeats
Tue 16 April 2024, 5:38pm
The Tasmanian dairy industry is in absolute shambles. On the one hand, there are dairy farmers such as Carpenter lamenting the need to kill on farm the very calves they...
- Did Farm Transparency Project Just Help Topple a Government?
Thu 15 February 2024, 3:29pm
When activists with Farm Transparency Project first walked into the Tasmanian Quality Meats slaughterhouse in the dead of night, they had no idea that the project they were embarking on...
- Scottsdale Pork - A pig slaughterhouse at the intersection of political corruption and bigotry
Sat 13 January 2024, 8:49pm
In October 2007 two elders from a secretive religious sect, the Exclusive Brethren, were granted permanent access to the ministers and backbenchers of the Federal Liberal Party as lobbyists. Their passes...
- 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...