The Animal Liberation Front
In the last few decades, animal rights has become a familiar concept to Americans, largely though media accounts of activist’s efforts. The events most typically reported, demonstrations, raids on laboratories, and civil disobedience, are dramatic and much known; however, the realities from which this movement to liberate animals from human possession emerged is not as well known to the general public. My aim in this research paper is to supply that context by making clear the major ideas of the movement, the kinds of activism that take place, reveal one specific organization that has emerged, the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and argue that the ALF is, in fact, a good and ethical terrorist organization. In this paper, I hope to provide basic information about the ALF and that my research and my own philosophies and ideas will be of use to both those not familiar and already familiar with the animal rights movement and furthering discussion between these two groups of these important issues. In order to set the stage for understanding the animal rights movement, one needs some background information about animal rights. Lawrence Finsen, the author of “The Animal Rights Movement in America
The ALF’s website gives a statement of their mission, which is as follows: It is a nonviolent campaign, activists taking all precautions not to harm any animal (human or otherwise). In December 1984, the ALF raided the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California, removing dozens of animals from filthy cages. A video was taken by members of the ALF and it revealed animals lying on freezing cold, damp floors, with open and infected wounds. Cats were caged on the roof of the building with no shelter from rain or wind. A large dog that had given birth to puppies had stood helplessly while her puppies died of exposure and starvation. The dog was unable to nurse her puppies since she had been exposed to high doses of radiation, and had been forced to give birth to her puppies on a nearly freezing floor. Subsequent USDA inspection revealed the facility to be in violation of numerous Federal Animal Welfare Act regulations, including failure to establish adequate veterinary care, maintain adequate surgery areas, consulting a veterinarian regarding use of anesthetics, and to monitor and shelter dogs and cats properly after surgery. The facility was fined $11,000 by the USDA and required to build a new $380,000 research facility and hire a full time veterinarian. (Animalliberationfront.com) The first mink and coyote liberation, as part of “Operation Bite Back Part I,” was at the USDA Fur Animal Research Facility at Washington State University. 6 mink, 7 coyotes, and 10 mice are liberated. Two offices had extensive damage done, slogans spray painted, equipment, and computers damaged, resulting in $150,000 in damage in August of 1991. (Animalliberationfront.com)
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