Dan gave a good interview on ABC radio's The Conversation Hour a couple of days ago as part of his book promotion. He's certainly had an interesting life.

Do the proceeds go to peta?

Posted by: rojo | October 25, 2007 06:59 PM

I've seen him on TV a fair bit lately (I'm currently in Aus). You should really see the A Current Affair video of him on the kangaroo hunting thing. Oh man were those hunters stupid.
"He[David Beckham] should mind his own business and leave us alone"
Here's some news, random jerk; by not wearing kangaroo skins, he IS minding his own business AND leaving you alone. The kangaroo hunters were saying how much their profits have been down and how they have nobody to sell the skins to and it's all David's fault... well boo hoo, I'm playing the world's smallest violin for you.

Posted by: AnimalLib | October 26, 2007 09:54 PM

Mr. Dan Mathews has found his perfect niche in life by representing PeTA - and PeTA is VERY, VERY fortunate to have him do so.
Because of Dan Mathews, he has inspired me to say - in a condensed version now - of what I have been trying to express to anti-a/r's activists in so many of my blogs, in so many ways.

Dedicated to Dan Mathews, from my heart:

By being a/r's activists, the animals around the world have united millions of people together throughout the world for a self-less cause.
The great majority of us don't know each other, and we never will. We don't know what each other looks like, and very rarely do we know a part of anyone's personal life - whether we range anywhere from being rich to poor, have a high status or was never able to achieve anything in our lives. We really don't know anyone's particular ages, although ages range from the young to the elderly. We don't know of those who enjoy perfect health, or of those who are very ill. We don't know of those who are very popular, or of those who are very lonely. We don't know of those who had endured many terrible struggles, or multiple tragedies, misfortunes, and losses in life, nor do we know if they are going through any current hardships and sadness. We don't know of those who have done great humanitarian services, with quiet humbleness, or those who are continually honored, yet have humiltiy.
And we rarely know of anyone's sexual preference, race, nationalities, creeds, or political preferences.

And since we -as a/r's activist- don't know much about each other around the world or very few personally, we do not have any reason to reject anyone for who they are, the way they are, or what they believe in otherwise because that is not our focus anyway. As animal rights' activists, we have been united in our hearts -as is- by the animals.
Although unknown to them, the animals have the tremedous power to unite millions of people whose lives are unknown to each other, so that we can be one voice: to eliminate the hatred, or the uncompassionate and non-empathetic actions, which results in the animals being undeservedly exploited, abused, tortured, and killed.

So as animal rights' activists, the voiceless animals are actually "telling" us that what ever we know about each other or don't know is not really important...because it much, much more important to share our compassion, sympathy/empathy -with our voices and our actions- for living, feeling beings who cannot speak or save themselves from the horrors that human beings inflict upon them.
Therefore, no matter what, we can never be offended by anti-a/r's comments personally directed to us or as a group because we know our own selves more by far than anyone else could ever possibly know about each of us.

Thank you, Mr. Mathews, for being the exceptionally wonderful, caring person who you are...and for your tremendously beautiful inspiraton to myself and others!

Posted by: Ariel | October 26, 2007 10:20 PM

animallib, the passing last month of Senate Bill 880 in california should open up the market for kangaroo products to a potential 60 million consumers. I understand there was intense lobbying by soccer players over there to get it passed, with or without Mr Beckham.

Unfortunately there are stupid people in all walks of life, and often they are sought after for such comment.

Posted by: rojo | October 28, 2007 01:01 AM

Ariel

You should really say that in a speech. That was good!

Posted by: Caboose | October 28, 2007 10:35 AM

A person cannot be "anti" to something that does not exist so despite ariels claim there are no animal rights so there cannot be anti animal rights.

Posted by: Mars | October 28, 2007 02:28 PM

....But it is ok to eat animals as long as they are killed in the most humane way possible.

Posted by: Caboose | October 28, 2007 10:11 PM

....just not so much

Posted by: Caboose | October 29, 2007 11:37 PM

What would be a "humane" way of killing an animal? Would that be killing animals like how a man kills another man?

Posted by: Nate | December 5, 2008 10:12 AM