"[4] Hawthorne is a vegan and has published numerous entries in books and approximately 100 articles on veganism and animal rights in magazines and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times,[5] the San Francisco Chronicle,[6] The Press Democrat,[7] The Tribune (San Luis Obispo),[8] VegNews, and Hinduism Today.

[10] He serves on the board of directors of Save the Buns, a nonprofit organization that provides sanctuary and finds loving homes for rabbits who have been rescued from product-testing and research labs.

[11] Hawthorne is one of several people who provided information used in the writing of the book Uncaged: Top Activists Share Their Wisdom on Effective Farm Animal Advocacy (2013) by Ben Davidow.

... Hawthorne forces us to expand that vision in ways even experienced ethical vegans will find informative and alarming.

[18][19] An expanded, 10th-anniversary edition of Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism was released as a 416-page paperback in November 2018 (ISBN 978-1785358821).