American farmer and animal rights activist (born 1938)

Howard F. Lyman (born September 17, 1938, in Great Falls, Montana) is an American farmer and animal rights activist known for promoting vegan nutrition and organic farming. In 1997 he was awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award for his leadership in the animal rights movement.

Contents

• 1 Biography
  • 1.1 The Oprah Winfrey Show appearance
• 2 Publications
• 3 Recognition
• 4 Honors and awards
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Biography

Lyman was raised as a fourth generation rancher on a farm that produced dairy and meat commodities. He attended Montana State University and graduated with a B.S. degree in general agriculture in 1961. Upon graduation, he spent two years in the United States Army before returning to work on the farm.

From 1963 to 1983 he was actively engaged in animal and grain production. The areas in which he was involved were dairy, pork, registered Hereford, chicken, range cattle, feedlot beef production, veal, grain, silage, and hay production.

In 1979 Lyman was diagnosed with a tumor in his spine. Faced with the prospect of paralysis, he vowed to return to non-chemical means of farming if he beat the cancer. He survived an operation to remove the tumor and set out to transform his land into an organic farm. He also ran for political office, but lost his first election. He then became a lobbyist, and moved to Washington, D.C.

Circa 1990, again facing health concerns, he became a vegetarian and found his health improved. In 1989 Lyman had begun to investigate Mad Cow disease, which was just becoming an issue in the UK. He eventually became a vegan.

The Oprah Winfrey Show appearance

In April 1996 Lyman came to national attention during an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Lyman's remarks on the show led to Winfrey renouncing hamburgers. The National Cattlemen's Beef *ociation sued Lyman and Winfrey. Both were found not guilty in 1998. While the CDC and USDA maintained that Mad Cow Disease could not occur in the US, the government of *an did not agree.

Publications

He has co-aut*d the book Mad Cowboy (1998) and co-aut*d No More Bull (2005) and became president of EarthSave. Leaving that post, he became president of "Voice for a Viable Future".

Lyman wrote the foreword to Erik Marcus's book Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating (1998), and the 1st vegan pizza cookbook: Mark Sutton's Heart Healthy Pizza

Lyman also features in Franny Armstrong's 2005 do*entary McLibel, in Marianne Thieme's 2007 do*entary Meat The Truth, and in Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn's 2014 do*entary Cowspiracy.

He has produced four DVDs (A Mad Cowboy Lecture, Earth Talk: 2001, Mad Cowboy: The Do*entary, and A Mad Cowboy Lecture: 2007).

Recognition

Lyman was awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award in Sherborn, M*achusetts in 1997 for his leadership in the animal rights movement. His story was featured in Tribe of Heart's 2009 do*entary Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home. He was also featured on the 2011 do*entary Vegucated.

Honors and awards

• 1996: Elected President of the International Vegetarian Union (served through 1999)
• 1997: Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award in Sherborn, MA on April 12, 1997
• 2002: Vegetarian Hall of Fame, August 3, 2002, at the North American Vegetarian Society's annual Vegetarian Summerfest in Johnstown, Pennsylvania

See also

• List of animal rights advocates

References

External links

• Official website
• Interview with Howard F. Lyman

Cases

• Brown Dog affair
• Cambridge University primates
• McLibel case
• Pit of despair
• SHAC
• Silver Spring monkeys
• University of California, Riverside 1985 laboratory raid
• Unnecessary Fuss
• War of the currents

ActivistsParties

• Animal Justice Party (Australia)
• Animal Politics EU (Europe)
• Animal Protection Party of Canada (Canada)
• Animal Welfare Party (UK)
• Animal Justice Party of Finland (Finland)
• Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (Spain)
• DierAnimal (Belgium)
• Human Environment Animal Protection (Germany)
• Italian Animalist Party (Italy)
• Party for Animal Welfare (Ireland)
• Party for the Animals (Netherlands)
• People Animals Nature (Portugal)
• V-Partei³ (Germany)

Albums

• Animal Liberation (1987)
• Tame Yourself (1991)
• Manifesto (2008)
• Salvation of Innocents (2014)
• Onward to Freedom (2014)

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EthicsFood
and drink

• Agave nectar
• Chicken fillet roll
• Coconut burger
• Coconut milk
• Fruits
• Grains
  • cereals
  • legumes
• Gelatin subs*utes
  • Agar
  • Carrageenan
  • Gulaman
  • Konjac jelly
  • Microbial cellulose
• Jambon
• Meat *ogue
  • List of meat subs*utes
• Miso
• Mochi
• Mock duck
• Nutritional yeast
• Plant cream
• Plant milk
• Quinoa
• Quorn
• Seitan
• Soy yogurt
• Tempeh
• Tofu
• Tofurkey
• Cheese
• Vegepet
• Vegetables
• Hot dog
• Vegetarian mark
• Sausage
• Sausage roll
• Beer
• Wine
• Veggie burger

Groups
and eventsCompanies

• List of vegetarian and vegan companies

Books,
reports,
journals

• An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food, as a Moral Duty (1802)
• Vegetable Cookery (1812)
• A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813)
• Reasons for not Eating Animal Food (1814)
• Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes (1824)
• Nature's Own Book (1835)
• Fruits and Farinacea (1845)
• The Pleasure Boat (1845)
• The Ethics of Diet (1883)
• What is Vegetarianism? (1886)
• Shelley's Vegetarianism (1891)
• Behind the Scenes in Slaughter-Houses (1892)
• Why I Am a Vegetarian (1895)
• Figs or Pigs? (1896)
• Thirty-nine Reasons Why I Am a Vegetarian (1903)
• The Meat Fetish (1904)
• The New Ethics (1907)
• A Fleshless Diet (1910)
• The Benefits of Vegetarianism (1927)
• Ten Talents (1968)
• Diet for a Small Planet (1971)
• The Farm Vegetarian Cookbook (1975)
• Laurel's Kitchen (1976)
• Moosewood Cookbook (1977)
• Fit for Life (1985)
• Diet for a New America (1987)
• The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990)
• Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone (1997)
• The China Study (2004)
• Skinny * (2005)
• Livestock's Long Shadow (2006)
• The Bloodless Revolution (2006)
• Eating Animals (2009)
• Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows (2009)
• Animal (De)liberation (2016)
• The End of Animal Farming (2018)
• Vegetable Kingdom (2020)
• Meat Atlas (annual)

Films

• The Animals Film (1981)
• A Cow at My Table (1998)
• Meet Your Meat (2002)
• Peaceable Kingdom (2004)
• Earthlings (2005)
• A Sacred Duty (2007)
• Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead (2010)
• Planeat (2010)
• Forks Over Knives (2011)
• Vegucated (2011)
• Live and Let Live (2013)
• Cowspiracy (2014)
• What the Health (2017)
• Carnage (2017)
• Dominion (2018)
• Eating You Alive (2018)
• The Game Changers (2018)

Magazines

• Naked Food
• Satya
• Vegetarian Times
• VegNews
• The Animals' Agenda

Academics,
authors,
physiciansRelated

• Vegetarian and vegan symbolism
• Vegetarian characters in fiction
• List of vegan media
• Juice fasting
• Vegetarian and vegan dog diet
• Vegaphobia
• Plant-based diet
• Sustainable diet
  • Low-carbon
  • Planetary health
• Semi-vegetarianism
  • Pescetarianism
  • Pollotarianism