Stole 14 beagles from a Huntingdon Life Sciences Group facility and harassed a Charles Schwab brokerage until it agreed to stop trading the stock. The actions caused Huntingdon's stock to drop 45% to 4.3 cents a share.
Has taken credit for four separate attacks on Maine fish and game clubs causing $7,000 to $15,000 in property damage each time.
Believes genetic engineering is the key to creating a perfect "pain free" society.
"Carries out direct action against animal abuse in the form of resuing animals and causing financial loss to animal exploiters, usually through the damage and destruction of property.'
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF HELL
"We have enslaved the rest of animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."
William Ralph Inge
Each day we butcher millions of other sentient beings because we like the taste of their flesh. The functional development and intensity of suffering of our victims tend to match the capacities of human infants and toddlers. The contrast in our attitude and behaviour toward them could scarcely be greater.
Imagine the anguish caused by an oxyacetylene torch applied, if only to a few seconds, to your child's face. Unspeakably appalling? Yet each day we pay - by our choice in food purchases - to have other living creatures treated no less abominably.
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Would .global veganism ensure a cruelty-free world? No, not by itself. Life in a state of Nature is often little kinder than a life of barbarous abuse by Man. Should we respect the ways of Nature simply because they are "natural"? Or is homage to the pain-ridden products of selfish genes as harmful a superstition as any? In one sense, after all, animals no more need liberating than babies and toddlers need liberating: they need looking after.
This can be done only by using genetic-engineering and nanotechnology. This major transition in the evolution of life will replace the DNA-driven pain and malaise of our evolutionary past. The molecular architecture of the old Darwinian Era will be succeeded by modes of consciousness that are more beautiful than anything we can currently imagine.
Some people who care deeply about animals are still shocked at the implications of such an ambitious species-project. Many animal-lovers would oppose the loss, for instance, of the symbolically-charged big predators in their traditional guise - in spite of the cruelty and suffering inflicted on the weak, the old and the vulnerable that their present carnivorous habits entail. Indeed to anyone of a humanistic or spirituo-religious disposition, the blueprint to put an end to the primeval DNA regime might seem the vision of a soulless technocrat. Yet there's nothing soulful about rampant, pointless and utterly out-of-control suffering. The much-advertised "Death of God" shouldn't spell the loss of paradise, too; and there is only one scientifically literate way its promise is ever going to be realised.
What is the Animal Liberation Front?
The Animal Liberation Front (A.L.F.) carries out direct action against animal abuse in the form of rescuing animals and causing financial loss to animal exploiters, usually through the damage and destruction of property.
The A.L.F.'s short-term aim is to save as many animals as possible and directly disrupt the practice of animal abuse. Their long term aim is to end all animal suffering by forcing animal abuse companies out of business.
It is a non-violent campaign, activists taking all precautions not to harm any animal (human or otherwise).
Because A.L.F. actions are against the law, activists work anonymously, either in small groups or individually, and do not have any centralized organization or co-ordination.
The Animal Liberation Front consists of small autonomous groups of people all over the world who carry out direct action according to the A.L.F. guidelines. Any group of people who are vegetarians or vegans and who carry out actions according to A.L.F. guidelines have the right to regard themselves as part of the A.L.F.
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Established "to support alternatives to product testing on animals and to reform the treatment of farm animals."
Publishes the Coordinator's Report, issued periodically.
Its leader the late Henry Spira urged moderate tactics but discloses: "My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism. . .Clearly, animal rights and eating animals don't mesh."
In full-page ads in the New York Times it accused poultry producer Perdue Farms of "farm factory" overcrowding that leads to disease and cannibalism in chickens.
After protests by its Coalition to Abolish the LD50 and Draize Tests, cosmetic company Revlon agreed to award Rockefeller University $750,000 to study non-animal research methods.
Encourages companies that conduct animal testing to "sponsor research into devising substitute tests of equal or greater accuracy that do not require the use of animals, or that use fewer animals and minimize their pain and suffering."
1997 Bernice Barbour Foundation $15,000
1997 Helen Brach Foundation $10,000
1995 Helen Brach Foundation $10,000