Norm Phelps was a founding member of the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians, and a former outreach director of the Fund for Animals.
11 Facts About Norm Phelps
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Norm Phelps authored four books on animal rights: The Dominion of Love: Animal Rights According to the Bible, The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights, The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA, and Changing the Game: Animal Liberation in the Twenty-first Century.
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Norm Phelps published articles, essays, and book reviews in several periodicals: Journal of Critical Animal Studies, Philosophia, Satya, The Animals' Voice, and VegNews.
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Norm Phelps had become a vegetarian and then a vegan following the death of his dog Czar in 1984.
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Norm Phelps had a personality as individual and well-defined as any human being.
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In 1994, Norm Phelps retired from the federal government and joined the campaigns office of The Fund for Animals in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he became active in the campaign to end the live pigeon shoot which was then held every Labor Day in the village of Hegins, Pennsylvania.
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From 2002 until his death in 2014, Norm Phelps had suffered from myasthenia gravis, an auto-immune neuromuscular condition that causes severe fatigable weakness.
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Norm Phelps spent two days in Berks County Prison and was convicted of malicious mischief.
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Norm Phelps lived in Funkstown, Maryland with his second wife, Patti Rogers.
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Norm Phelps died on December 31,2014, at the age of 75.
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Norm Phelps was survived by his wife Patti Rogers and 2 children, his son Nelson and his daughter Kyra.