Kip Andersen
Kip Andersen’s environmental awakening came as a result of An Inconvenient Truth. After seeing the film, he began to recycle religiously, turn off lights constantly, shower more efficiently, and ride a bike instead of driving. Andersen believed he was doing everything he could to help the planet by following the guidelines of national and international environmental organizations, but his life took a different direction when he found out animal agriculture is the leading cause of environmental destruction. He is the founder of Animals United Movement, a nonprofit focused on creating films and media promoting sustainability, compassion, and peace for all of Earth’s inhabitants. Also a serial entrepreneur, he has built more than a dozen businesses. He is a graduate of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo school of business.
Kip’s filmography includes: Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014, director, producer, writer); What the Health (2017, director, producer, writer); Seaspiracy (2021) and Christspiracy (2024).
Interesting to find out you are a board member of Rowdy Girl Sanctuary and you are the one who made the above 3 amazing films. My mission: “2025 is the year to ban all dog breeders and all puppy mills globally so shelter dogs can survive and thrive!”. I am an animal lover so get lots of emails about animals, dogs in particular, and it is heartbreaking to see how many beautiful healthy dogs in the shelters are being euthanized because the shelter is overflowing with dogs! This is not right. Texas, California and New York are particularly bad for kill shelters. Me and other animal lovers cannot handle seeing this all the time so I got to thinking about why this is happening. Then I thought about puppy mills. So, for an experiment, I went online and pretended I wanted to buy a puppy. Well, I got offers coming out the woodwork! There is an avalanche of online puppy mills. I think it escalated with COVID. However, there are SO many, selling every breed of dog! I was shocked and saddened. No wonder the shelter dogs suffer, people are sitting on their butts at home and ordering puppies online instead of going to the shelters to find their new dog. So wrong! So I decided to try to do something about this, thus my mission above. I think someone needs to do an investigative story about this sad phenomenon and share it with the world to educate the public on the cruelty and horrors that are happening in the dog world. It is a big job, but like The Lorax says,
“UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”