Category: Animal Rights Extremism

I’m very upset to see that following up on previous threats, animal rights terrorists have set fire to a scientist’s house. I’ve been saying for a while that the real threat towards biological science isn’t the evolution denialists and other silly cranks’ rather laughable attempts at trying to convince people the earth is 6000 years…

In today’s New York Times, Doreen Carvajal reports that cosmetic companies are scrambling to come into compliance with a 2009 ban on the use of animal testing for cosmetics in the European Union. 27 member economies strong, the EU can pass such rules, and watch the industry innovate to reach the goal of more humane…

The latest pathetic assault on a scientist came from ALF against UCLA scientist Edyth London. Using a garden hose they flooded her home, causing tens of thousands in damage. However, rather than intimidating her out of performing research in addiction she has written an article for the LA Times, defending animal research. For years, I…

I have trouble believing this, but animal rights extremists have apparently stolen a kindergarten bunny. Students at the Community Building Children’s Center arrived at their downtown preschool Monday morning to discover that their pet rabbit Sugar Bunny had been kidnapped over the weekend. Teachers found anti-circus flyers in his hutch. “Somebody stoled him,” said five-year-old…

An art teacher has been “removed from the classroom” for proselytizing to his students about his vegan lifestyle. Apparently after being born-again into veganism, he wouldn’t stop talking to kids about living “cruelty-free” during class. The kicker? He now wants to charge the school district with child endangerment for encouraging them to drink milk. Dave…

Opportunity knocks for all of you creative people out there! PETA is holding a blog advertisement contest! This could be fun. Perhaps we could have our own countercompetition in the comments? PETA is offering a $500 gift card to the winner. For our contest, I’d totally be willing to take you out for some hot…

Props to Nick Anthis and PZ for addressing the animal rights vs animal welfare issue in science. In particular this statement from PZ, “Once we’ve defeated the creationists (hah!), we’re going to have to manage the next problem: well-meaning but ill-informed animal rights activists.” That sounds about right. If things in the United States follow…

Janet points us to this AP article about how the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine –aka PETA pretending to be doctors (less than 5% of them are actually doctors) – is now suing UCSF over reported violations of the animal welfare act. I’m sure this is as noble as their attempts to smear McDonalds, or…

The LA Times reports. The FBI and the Los Angeles Fire Department are investigating an anonymous claim that animal rights extremists placed an unexploded incendiary device found under the car of a prominent UCLA eye doctor last weekend. The incident was similar to one last year in which another UCLA researcher was the intended target.…

Both Nature and the LA Times this week have articles cautioning against labeling animal-rights extremists “terrorists” in the US. The justification that they’re using is that the groups in question, ELF and ALF, are not terrorists because so far they’ve only destroyed property, and haven’t managed to kill anyone yet. Terrorism, in their view, should…