Ludvig Andreas Lindström (born September 22, 1975 in Huskvarna

Huskvarna

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, Sweden

Sweden

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) is a prominent and well known Swedish animal rights

Animal rights

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 activist, and the founder and President of Charity International

Charity International

Charity International, who recently switched name to Global Happiness Organization , is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of utilitarian ethics. It was founded in 2007 by a team of Swedish academics, philosophers and animal welfare activists led by Ludvig Lindström...

, the very first utilitarian

Utilitarianism

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 organization in the world.

Lindström has on the management level been involved in the American

United States

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 animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is an American animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president. A non-profit corporation with 300 employees and two million members and supporters, it claims to be the largest animal rights...

 (PETA) and the Swedish animal rights organization Animal Rights Sweden.

Lindstrom is perhaps best known for his spectacular campaigns, and for his signum "naked animal activism". Among other things, he has gone on hunger strike in a small cage at the Sergel Square

Sergels Torg

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 in Stockholm

Stockholm

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 in protest against the closure of the Animal Welfare Agency (which evaluated, enforced and developed legislation aimed at improving the welfare of nonhuman animals); has gone “on loan” at the Malmö public library

Malmö public library

Malmö City Library is located in Malmö, Sweden and celebrated its 100 anniversary in December 2005. It has 550 000 different media, about 10 000 DVDs and 33 500 music CDs. In 2006 it became the first library in Sweden to lend video games....

 in an attempt to decrease prejudice against animal rights activists; and has staged numerous “meat tray” demonstrations (naked humans in big meat trays to protest against the meat industry) throughout the Nordic region

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.

Lindström advocates the development of in vitro meat

In vitro meat

In vitro meat, also known as cultured meat, is an animal flesh product that has never been part of a complete, living animal.This form of meat has been described, sometimes derisively, as "laboratory-grown" meat. In vitro meat should not be confused with imitation meat, which is a vegetarian food...

 to replace the exploitation of sentient intact animals. In 2008 he participated in the world’s first international in vitro meat symposium in Ås

Ås

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 outside Oslo

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; and in 2010 he put together an exhibition about in vitro meat at the Malmö Museum.

In 2009 Lindström was elected as Europe's sexiest vegetarian, a competition organized by PETA.

Lindstrom is also involved in Swedish refugee

Refugee

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 politics. In 2008, he launched the network Vellinge Citizens for Refugees to promote a warmer welcome for refugees in the Vellinge Municipality

Vellinge Municipality

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, the first such organization in the municipally of Vellinge.