Alistair Currie - Resident Expert on Animal Tests

Alistair Currie recently celebrated 25 years as a vegetarian (and 15 as a vegan), having gone vegetarian on the day he started training as a nurse in 1984. For far too long, he was content to eat his own badly cooked vegetarian food and simply observe the activities of the animal rights movement. Then, in 1994, he attended his first animal protection meeting in his hometown of Edinburgh. Soon after, he became an enthusiastic activist and, thanks to the advice of his new AR friends, a somewhat less bad cook. After 13 years as a registered nurse, he was so inspired by a talk given by a PETA campaigner to his local group that he decided to seek a professional role in the animal rights movement and has never looked back.

Alistair worked on farmed-animal and vivisection campaigns for Uncaged Campaigns, Viva! and the the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection before coming to PETA in 2007. He is now the policy adviser for the organisation. His work focuses on ending animal experimentation and maximising PETA's impact on public policy in the UK and the European Union. His widely varied responsibilities include meeting with Cabinet ministers, mobilising PETA supporters, lobbying politicians, speaking on national television and in numerous public talks and debates (including those held by the prestigious Oxford Union) and conducting detailed technical work on animal testing and the use of alternatives to animal experiments. Staying in touch with his local campaigner roots, he still occasionally dons the odd animal costume for one of PETA's eye-catching photo opportunities!

Alistair lives in London with his wife and enjoys really good vegan food, music and watching infuriating television programmes (Question Time and X Factor in particular).