About Our Staff
The Mary T. and Frank L. Hoffman Family Foundation

Dedicated to cruelty free living through a vegetarian vegan lifestyle.

About Our Staff

In addition to our Executive Director, Tammy "Tams" Nicholson, our Foundation employs a staff person.

Our staff person is:

Veda Stram - Camano Island, Washington, USA

Why would an atheist work for a Christian animal rights site?

The answer is simple: Animals have no religion and need all humans to work on their behalf, regardless of religious beliefs.

I am certain that in order to have a world that benefits all life on our planet, veganism is THE answer: a critical mass of humans must act as if every single thing they do has consequences for every other living being, everywhere in the world.

Since most people in the U.S. claim to be Christian, I am honored to work for a Christian vegan/animal rights site founded by a retired church pastor who believes that if people believe in God, they need to be asking themselves, “Is this how God would want you to treat His creation?”

All-Creatures.org is a huge, archival vegan/animal rights site that provides articles, events, alerts, images, videos, stories, recipes, investigations, poetry (and more) for nonbelievers and believers to be inspired and educated to make huge differences for animals.

Whatever your religious beliefs or your anti-religion stance, please make use of this huge, archival vegan/animal rights website...ALL-CREATURES.ORG.

Share the site with your friends, family and coworkers who are believers and have not yet included ALL animals in their religious commitments!

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In the spring of 1988 when she was 42, Veda saw a brochure about animals abused in drug addiction experiments. She called Cloris Leachman's office because I knew she had 'done some work for animals.' She left a message with Cloris's publicist and... ta da! someone called her back 10 minutes later and told her that she should call Bill Dyer and after an hour conversation about animal abuse horrors, he told her to go to a Last Chance for Animals meeting that night...she has been an activist ever since. She went vegetarian within days and was vegan within months.

She volunteered with The Animals Voice Magazine, Last Chance for Animals (LCA), has been on the Boards of Orange County People for Animals (OCPA), Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN), Pigs Peace Sanctuary, was web manager for AnimalsVoice.com and administrative editor of The Animals Voice Magazine in the early 2000's, and has been a Board Member at United Poultry Concerns (UPC) since 2013.

She created and has coordinated Newcomer Orientations at The National Animal Rights Conferences to empower people new to animal issues and new to the possibilities of animal rights and vegan activism.

From 2006 through early 2020 she volunteered weekly at Vegan Haven, the all-vegan grocery store in Seattle owned by Pigs Peace Sanctuary.

She has been employed by All-Creatures.org since July 2008 and posts animal rights/vegan articles, stories, poetry, alerts and more on the All-Creatures.org site and she created the weekly All-Creatures.org newsletter in August of 2008.

Two things she is most proud of:

• What to Eat When You Don't Eat Animals: menus and ideas to inspire people who want to eat as if life is precious (PDF)
• Some Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was New to Activism (PDF)

She lives on stunningly gorgeous Camano Island, Washington, with four of the best feline roommates in the world - Bella, Bud, Joey and Mikey.

 

Visit VEDA STRAM - DIRECTORY for her articles, stories, presentations, videos.

 

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