. . "Steven Best"@en . "1955Z"^^ . . "Steven Best (born December 1955) is an American animal rights advocate, author, and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. A writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education described him in 2005 as \"one of the leading scholarly voices on animal rights.\"Best is co-founder of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS), formerly known as the Center on Animal Liberation Affairs (CALA)."@en . "American activist" . . . . "Best, Steven"@en .