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Matthew Michael Ball (born January 2, 1968[2]) is an American animal activist. He is executive director of Vegan Outreach,[3] which he co-founded in 1993 with Jack Norris, and is the co-author, with Bruce Friedrich, of The Animal Activist's Handbook (2009).[4] He was inducted into the Animal Rights Hall of Fame in 2005.[5]
Ball was born in Toledo, Ohio.[2] His parents are Cornelius Francis Ball and Judith Anderson Ball (both of Toledo, Ohio).[6] Cornelius Ball is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.[7] Before founding Vegan Outreach, Matt Ball obtained an M.S. in Forest Ecology at the University of Illinois, and an M.S. in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He held a research fellowship in the Department of Biology at the University of Pittsburgh.[3]
Matt Ball married Anne Green on February 20, 1993 in Urbana, Illinois;[2][8] their daughter Ellen Katya Green was born on July 16, 1994, in Pennsylvania[9] and was raised as a vegan.[10] Matt and Anne live in Tucson, Arizona. Anne is also vegan[11] and works for Vegan Outreach.[12]
Ball says: "[W]e must focus on getting people to consider their first step toward compassion, rather than arguing for our current philosophy or diet. Most non-vegetarians tune out when told to go vegan but may consider starting to make changes like adopting Meatless Mondays or eating fewer chickens."[13]
Martin Ball › Virgil George Ball › Cornelius Francis Ball › Matthew Michael Ball
I'll take medicines that have been tested on animals, I'll drink tap water filtered with bone char, I'll eat a veggie burger cooked in a non-vegan restaurant, etc. -- all things that some vegans consider to be 'non-vegan.'
So the point isn't to show how into veganism I am, how much I know, how easy it is for me, or even, necessarily, what it will be like for them in X months. Rather, our goal should be to engage the person from where they are at the moment.
Matt Ball and Jack Norris, who formed [Vegan Outreach] in the early 1990s, have been adherents to utilitarian theory for over a decade.
Peter Singer, Immanuel Kant, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Hinduism, Buddhism
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