News Release
September 2003
(Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)— David Cantor,
founder of Responsible Policies for Animals (RPA) will present a
talk on animal liberation
at Moravian College on Friday, September 26, at 12:50 p.m., Prosser
Auditorium in the HUB. His talk is sponsored by the Philosophy Department
at Moravian College.
After earning his graduate degree in writing and
literature and teaching in universities for several years, David
Cantor worked from 1989 to
1996 at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in Washington,
D.C. As PETA’s senior researcher, he advanced many major anti-animal-abuse
efforts and advised many people on humane ways of living with wildlife.
He then served as director of special projects at the American Anti-Vivisection
Society, in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, and in 1998 he became a consultant
to national animal protection organizations, working for several concurrently
in many different capacities.
In November 2002, Cantor incorporated Responsible
Policies for Animals, Inc. (RPA), which in 2003 became a 501(c)(3)
educational nonprofit
organization. RPA specializes in showing influential people and institutions
how to implement responsible policies for animals that are also responsible
policies for ecosystems and human beings. As RPA’s executive
director, Cantor launched the organization’s first program in
2003: 10,000 Years Is Enough, aimed at ending universities’ teaching
of animal agriculture. The campaign has received university, industry,
and popular press coverage and many university responses.
His articles on animal protection have appeared
in the Los Angeles Times, Business & Society Review, The American School Board Journal,
The Animals’ Agenda, and many other publications; his letters,
in Time magazine, E: The Environmental Magazine, The New York Times
Magazine and Book Review, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News,
and many others. He wrote the chapter “Items of Property” in
The Great Ape Project (1994), co-edited by Peter Singer and published
in several languages. Two of his articles are included in A Primer
on Animal Rights (2002), edited by Kim W. Stallwood. His background
and work are profiled in Charles Patterson’s Eternal Treblinka:
Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust (2002). He has given presentations
at government hearings, colleges, schools, civic- and religious-organization
meetings, and elsewhere.
Moravian College is a private, coeducational, selective liberal arts
college located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Tracing its founding to
1742, it is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college. For more
information call (610) 861-1491 or visit the web site at www.moravian.edu.
