About CCAD

Mission

We seek to promote animal welfare through education, outreach, and volunteerism.

Activities

Our activities include, but are not limited to:

• Tabling in Willard Straight Hall to promote campaigns that we are working on.
• Food events to serve as opportunities to engage people personally and to promote awareness of vegetarian and vegan alternatives to meat-based diets.
• Letter writing to promote animal friendly legislation and to get consumer information on products.
• Farm Sanctuary trips to give us a chance to spend some time with the animals we are working to help.
• Book Club. We have a book club to educate ourselves on issues in animal rights and related areas of activism. 
• Speakers. We often bring authors and activists to speak. In recent years we have brought Carol J. Adams, Dr. Michael Greger, George Eisman, Charles Patterson, and others.

History

The organization started in 1987 as the Animal Rights Committee with a 28 dollar budget to educate and activate the Cornell community. Since then we have mushroomed into one of the most active campus animal rights groups in the country. We have garnered national recognition for some of our work.

The famous astronomer Carl Sagan was our faculty advisor until he passed away in 1996.