Bruce Friedrich

Bruce Friedrich (born August 7, 1969) is Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives at Farm Sanctuary.
Friedrich serves on the governing board of the Catholic Vegetarian Society, the advisory board of the Christian Vegetarian Association, and is a founding member of the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians. He has appeared on NBC's Today Show, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and Court TV. 
==Personal life==
He served as president of the Cleveland County Young Democrats during his last two years of high school and campaigned for the late Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) during his first year of college.
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Iowa's Grinnell College with majors in English and economics and a minor in religious studies. Before joining People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in 1996, he spent six years working in a shelter for homeless families and a soup kitchen in Washington, D.C. 
He is vegan and lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Dr. Alka Chandna. For two years, Friedrich was a teacher at the Baltimore Freedom Academy.
Friedrich had a dispute with the Baltimore City Police Department when he was ordered to leave the Inner Harbor after handing out leaflets promoting vegetarianism.
==Work with PETA==
Friedrich wrote and made an audio recording of "Veganism in a Nutshell," a popular synopsis of the reasons some choose to go vegan. He appeared as a candidate on the 2004 Showtime reality series American Candidate.
As Director of Vegan Campaigns, Friedrich was responsible for producing Meet Your Meat, a video about factory farming narrated by Alec Baldwin. 
Friedrich is a frequent lecturer and debater on college campuses, including Harvard University,Alex Mclease, "PETA Debate: On Tolstoy and Bonsai Trees," The Harvard Crimson 15 September 2009 Yale University,Everett Rosenfeld, "PETA VP On Hand for Meaty Debate," Yale Daily News 4 April 2010 Princeton University,Rachel Jackson, "Singer Wins Vegetarian Debate, 75-35," The Daily Princetonian 1 October 2010. Cornell University,Tajwar Mazhar, "Cornell Forensics Society Debates Meat With PETA," The Cornell Daily Sun 1 November 2010. The University of Chicago,The Chicago Debate Society, News, University of Chicago 2011. and dozens of other colleges and universities across the country.
Friedrich considers his work for animal right's to be God's work.
==Writing==
*Contributor to Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?: Reflections on the Liberation of Animals, Lantern Books 2004, ISBN 1-59056-054-X
* Introduction to 
* Chapter 15, Effective Advocacy: Stealing from the Corporate Playbook p. 187
* Wrote the Foreword of the book Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism (2008) by Mark Hawthorne. ISBN 978-1-84694-091-0
*The Animal Activist's Handbook: Maximizing Our Positive Impact in Today's World, written with Matt Ball, and with a Foreword by Ingrid Newkirk, Lantern Books, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59056-120-1
*Friedrich is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post and Alan.com.
==Multimedia==
*
* Directed by Bruce Friedrich
*
*American Candidate TV Show
==References==
==See also==
* Bruce Friedrich's writing in the Huffington Post
* GoVeg.com - PETA's Vegetarian web site constructed under Friedrich's guidance
* YouTube Interviews with Bruce Friedrich
* Bruce Friedrich's posts at Alan.com, Alan Colmes' Web site
Category:American vegans
Category:American Roman Catholics
Category:Living people
Category:Grinnell College alumni
Category:People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Category:Animal rights advocates
Category:1969 births
Category:American vegans
Category:American Roman Catholics
Category:Living people
Category:Grinnell College alumni
Category:People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Category:Animal rights advocates
Category:1969 births