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pattrice jones
pattrice jones is an ecofeminist writer, educator, and activist. She is the co-founder of VINE Sanctuary in Springfield, Vermont, an LGBTQ-run farmed-animal sanctuary.

Activism
jones has been an activist for social change since the 1970s. She stopped eating meat when she was 15, the same year that she came out as a lesbian. She later became vegan, as she felt cows and hens were being sexually exploited for their milk and eggs.

jones’ veganism is rooted in the morals of compassion and love. She claims religion holds no ground in her activism or her animal sanctuary. jones believes that religion at its core will always encourage heteronormative and patriarchal rulings, ideals that are not consistent with her sanctuary’s founding principles of protection and equality across all species.

Around 2002–2003, jones was attributed to being the main organizer of the Global Hunger Alliance (GHA), an international network of several activist organizations that were coordinated in preparation for the 2002 World Food Summit. The GHA networked with 90 other "supportive" organizations from around the world, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and Uncaged Campaigns.

jones has also made stands against war by being one of the partners responsible for creating the Global Boycott for Peace.

In 2012, jones became involved in a battle over the lives of Bill and Lou, two oxen at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont. After one of the oxen, Lou, became injured, the school decided to slaughter both and serve them as food in the dining hall. Students and animal rights advocates protested, and jones offered the oxen a home at VINE Sanctuary. The college ultimately euthanized Lou. The controversy made national headlines. Jones wrote about the events in her book, The Oxen at the Intersection.

Career
In the year 2000, jones and her partner, Miriam Jones founded Eastern Shore Chicken Sanctuary in rural Maryland. Neither had worked in animal rescue prior to establishing the sanctuary. Their decision sprung from living close to “large-scale industrial chicken farms and slaughter facilities,” where seeing dead chickens, who had most likely fallen from trucks on their way to the slaughterhouse, on the side of the road was normalized. After finding a chicken that survived, the two took it upon themselves to care for it and build their haven from there. The sanctuary was relocated to Vermont in 2009 and later renamed VINE ("Veganism Is the Next Evolution") Sanctuary.

Writing and lecturing
jones writes and lectures about animal rights from an intersectional approach, connecting speciesism with racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. She argues that women are more likely to be vegan because they live their lives on more concrete, compassionate principles than men. Her work extends to all media and can be found in Bangladesh, Italy, Pakistan, South Africa, the U.S, and Canada. She has given presentations in different settings, including the World Food Summit in Rome, the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, and the Sustainable Development Conference in Islamabad.

jones is an educator and taught a social activism class at the University of Michigan. She’s also helped to arrange “programs concerning racism, sexism, and economic exploitation at the Baker-Mandela Center for Anti-Racist Education.”

Selected publications

 * pattrice le-muire jones (2001). "The Hunger for a Solution". The Animals' Agenda. 21 (5): 36–37.
 * Best, Steven (June 1, 2004). "Mothers with Monkeywrenches: Feminist Imperatives and the ALF". Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?: Reflections on the Liberation of Animals. Lantern Books. pp. 137–156. ISBN 978-1590560549.
 * jones, pattrice (June 2005). "Of Brides and Bridges: Linking Feminist, Queer, and Animal Liberation Movements". Satya.
 * Steven Best; Anthony J. Nocella II (April 1, 2006). "Stomping with the elephants: Feminist principles for radical solidarity". Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth. AK Press. pp. 319–334. ISBN 978-1904859567.
 * jones, pattrice (March 1, 2007). Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and Their Allies. Lantern Books. ISBN 978-1590561034
 * A. Breeze Harper (March 1, 2009). "Liberation as Connection and the Decolonization of Desire". Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health and Society. Lantern Books. pp. 187–201. ISBN 978-1590561454.
 * Randall Amster; Abraham DeLeon; Luis Fernandez; Anthony J. Nocella, II; Deric Shannon (March 14, 2009). "Free as a bird: natural anarchism in action". Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the Academy. Routledge. pp. 236–246. ISBN 978-0415474023.
 * jones, pattrice (2010). "Roosters, hawks and dawgs: Toward an inclusive, embodied eco/feminist psychology". Feminism and Psychology. Sage Publications. 20 (3): 365–380. doi:10.1177/0959353510368120. S2CID 143663153.
 * Kemmerer, Lisa (May 23, 2011). "Fighting Cocks: Ecofeminism Versus Sexualized Violence". Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice. University of Illinois Press. pp. 45–56. ISBN 978-0252078118.
 * jones, pattrice (May 1, 2014). The Oxen at the Intersection: A Collision. Lantern Books. ISBN 978-1590564622.
 * Carol J. Adams; Lori Gruen (July 31, 2014). "Eros and the Mechanisms of Eco-Defense". Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 91–108. ISBN 978-1628928037.