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Ayrton Cooper

Ayrton Cooper

Campaigns Manager, Animal Justice Project

www.animaljusticeproject.com/

Ayrton is the Campaigns Manager for Animal Justice Project, having worked with the organisation since 2018. He conceives strategic pressure campaigns, targeting industry leaders and so-called ‘higher welfare’ farming standards.

 

This includes creating educational resources, planning national days of action, online rallies, street demonstrations, and working with our investigations team to develop tactical campaigns. He lives with a dozen rescued companion animals from cats to tortoises to guinea pigs. Ayrton has a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from the University of Nottingham with key focuses in conservation and ecology. Every week, Ayrton volunteers for the Cinnamon Trust, walking dogs, and for a vegan-ran animal sanctuary. He is also a Trustee for another wonderful sanctuary. Outside of working in animal rights, he regularly forages wild food for himself and his animals.

Saturday
2pm

The RSPCA Assured smokescreen

By exploring Animal Justice Project’s investigations, I will show that assurance scheme, RSPCA Assured, is yet another smokescreen for the ‘humane’ and ‘higher welfare’ lie.

Vegan For The Animals full timetable

Saturday
3pm

Unifying the Vegan Movement: Collaborative Strategies for Collective Impact

Join us for an engaging panel discussion on fostering unity within the vegan movement. Discover how diverse organizations can leverage their unique skills and strengths through partnerships, alliances, and collaborations to work together towards a shared vision of a more compassionate world.

 

Panel Includes

 

Issy Acosta – Viva!

Dan Kidby – Animal Rising

Tod Bradbury – Animal Aid

Sash Joliffe – We The Free

Ayrton Cooper – Animal Justice Project

 

Hosted by Tim Barford – VegfestUK

Together As One Stage full timetable

Saturday
5pm

Moving Beyond the Welfare Paradigm

This panel takes a look at how we can move beyond the current welfare paradigm, established for over 200 years in the UK, and see fundamental rights for animals established, in the quest for ultimate animal liberation, whilst avoiding splits and unhealthy disagreements between different sections of the animal protection movement. Framing welfare reforms as Inside/Outside campaign strategy, alongside simple rights and fundamentals rights, the panel explores in some detail how our movement can achieve this vital shift for animals beyond the current welfare paradigm

 

Panels and Presentations full timetable