Our Campaigns in the United States
Overview of Our Work in the United States and Elsewhere
After founding The Compassion for Animals Foundation in 1986, Gil Michaels — also the founder of Animal Guardians — published The Animals Voice Magazine, an international award-winning animal rights magazine. The publication was so instrumental in moving the animal rights movement forward, particularly in the United States, that heavy opposition was leveled at it.
“If nothing has got you fired up yet to stop the animal rights movement, then this magazine should.” —Rich Faler, Editor of Trapper and Predator Caller
“A reader, who said I needed indoctrination to wildlife, sent me a perfectly obscene magazine called The Animals Voice … [Its] exposé on the fur business [is] the strongest propaganda I’ve seen on the subject in years…” —Fred Le Brun, Recreational Hunter, Sunday Times Union
In addition to The Animals Voice Magazine, The Compassion for Animals Foundation also funded and spearheaded numerous organizations, projects, individual activists, and campaigns.
Prior to its evolution into Animal Guardians, the Compassion for Animals Foundation (CAF) supported the work of dozens of organizations and activists. Founded in 1986 by Gil Michaels, CAF enabled the invaluable work and campaigns that had far-reaching impacts on animal welfare and rights around the globe.
From hands-on horse rescue to undercover investigations of religious cults to the end of fur farms in England — and so much more — CAF has been instrumental in strengthening a worldwide movement for animals for more than 30 years.
The Animals Voice Magazine features investigative reports, educational articles, timely news, poetry and prose, graphic pictures, and more, on a host of issues ranging from the fur industry to veal farming to vivisection to horse slaughter to bear bile to whaling and the list goes on.
The magazine is a collective of the animal rights movement, its organizations and activists, its sounding board and center stage — not to mention an award-winning publication (winner of 4 consumer honors, including the Gold Awards for Best Topical/Political and Best Overall Consumer Magazine for 1988, and, of course, the Maggie Award for Best Overall in Politics and Current Affairs, 1990) in the mainstream industry.
Gil Michaels and his Compassion for Animals Foundation published the magazine from 1988-1994 — and it’s still in print today.
In alphabetical order.
Organization Support
- 1-800-Save-a-Pet.com
- Animal Acres Farmed Animal Sanctuary
- Animal Legal Defense Fund
- Animal People Magazine
- Animal Rights Information Service
- Animal Rights International — Henry Spira
- Animal Welfare Institute
- The Animals Agenda Magazine
- Animals Asia Foundation
- The Animals Voice Magazine
- Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights
- Beijing Small Animal Veterinary Association
- Blue Cross of India
- California Equine Council
- Change for Animals Foundation
- Chico Cat Coalition
- Christian Vegetarian Association
- Chinese Academy of Engineering
- Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Chinese Animal Shelters
- Chinese Veterinary Association
- Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting
- The Culture and Animals Foundation
- Equus Sanctuary
- Farm Sanctuary
- Farmed Animal Rights Movement
- Fashion Refuses Fur
- Friends of Animals
- The Fund for Animals
- The Genesis Awards — Ark Trust
- Humane Action Alliance
- Humane Society International
- Humane Society of the United States
- Hunt Saboteurs
- In Defense of Animals
- Institute for Animals and Society
- La Tortura No Es Cultura
- Last Chance for Animals
- Lynx
- MeatIsViolent.com
- National Alliance for Animals
- New Life Foundation
- Orange County People for Animals
- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
- Primarily Primates
- Project Zero — Ed Duvin
- Return to Freedom Wild Horse Sanctuary
- Save Open and Agricultural Resources
- Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
- SHARK
- Shilo’s Inn Horse Sanctuary
- The Soi Dog Foundation
- Students for Animal Rights
- The Summit for Animals
- The Unicorn Foundation
- Visakha SPCA of India
- VIVA USA!
- The Wild Horse Sanctuary
- Wildlife S.O.S.
- World Fest Annual
And more…
In no particular order.
Individual Support
- Allan Bullington
- Cole McFarland
- Mark Glover
- Luke Dommer
- Cleveland Amory
- Paul Watson
- Joyce Tischler
- Anelia Smith
- Jill Anderson
- Jim Clapp
- Michael Blake
- Rod Coronado
- Alex Pacheco
- Tom Regan
- Ed Duvin
- Leo Grillo
- Laura Moretti
Plus many more too numerous to remember.
In no particular order.
- Funding to end horse slaughter in California and then the United States
- Animal Rights Information Service original video program series with Allan Bullington which aired nationally on Cable-Access TV
- Video and stage production of ‘Bless the Beasts’ by the Unicorn Foundation in sold-out shows across the United States
- Direct action against Safari Club International’s Annual Banquet to present attending trophy hunters with a ‘Coward of the Year Award’
- Fur-Free Friday yearly demonstrations in Beverly Hills
- Yearly Animal Rights Summits
- Support to VidAnimal, a Cali, Columbia, shelter for dogs, cats, and abused carriage horses
- Inspired the Paul McCartney song, ‘Looking for Changes’ (from pictures he saw in The Animals Voice Magazine)
- California’s free-range livestock legislation
- Hunt sabs on behalf of bighorn sheep, bison, and mountain lion hunts
- Annual World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week protests
- Funded The March for Animals 1990 — Washington, D.C., which drew 50,000-plus activists
- Funded and created Project Zero, Labette County Humane Society, animal shelter and puppy mill campaign, Parsons, Kansas
- Funded Cole McFarland’s undercover investigation of the Y.O. Game ranch in Texas
- Acquisition of some of the first full-color images from inside a pig slaughterhouse kill floor
- Published first-ever color slaughterhouse and vivisection images
- The joint production with Last Chance for Animals of the Living Cruelty Free 1989 and 1990 trade shows
- Genesis Awards — honoring the media for its coverage of animal issues — annual supporter
- Hands-on rescue of slaughter-bound horses with support to Equus Horse Sanctuary and Shilo’s Inn
- Successful campaign to end horse tripping in California
- Annual support and attendance of the National Animal Rights Conferences
- Aided the opening of a U.S. office and the purchase of anti-fur billboards throughout Los Angeles on behalf of Lynx/Mark Glover
- Rescue of chimpanzee ‘Koko Michaels’ from his chain in a basement, as well as support to Primarily Primates, where Koko was eventually retired
- Funded Sam LaBudde’s tuna/dolphin undercover exposé
- Worldfest support
- Funded Cole McFarland’s undercover investigation of the 56th Annual Alabama Deep-Sea Fishing Rodeo, 1988
- Large donor to the Pegasus Celebrity Art Auction to support horse rescue from slaughter, 1993
- Aid to Anelia Smith for 200 rescued dogs in Oneota, Alabama, 1993
- Donation of office space and expenses for one year of magazine production after ending official role as publisher of The Animals Voice Magazine
- Funded Cole McFarland’s undercover investigation of the religious cult, Santeria