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Summary: an excellent collection on a most important issue
Review: Animals are used in a a wide variety of harmful ways in the US and around the world. Consider some examples of what happens to animals in research laboratories: * Cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals are drowned, suffocated, and starved to death.
* They are burned, subjected to radiation, and used as "guinea pigs" in military research.
* Their eyes are surgically removed and their hearing is destroyed.
* They have their limbs severed and organs crushed.
* Invasive means are used to give them heart attacks, ulcers and seizures.
* They are deprived of sleep, subjected to electric shock, and exposed to extremes of heat and cold. Everyone of these procedures and outcomes complies with the Animal Welfare Act. Each conforms with what government officials count as "humane care and treatment." Consider some of what happens to animals in farms and slaughterhouses, again all of which is perfectly legal and deemed "humane": *Veal" calves spend their entire life individually confined to narrow stalls too narrow for them to turn around in.
* Laying hens live a year or more in cages the size of a filing drawer, seven or more per cage, after which they routinely are starved for two weeks to encourage another laying cycle.
* Female hogs are housed for four or five years in individual barred enclosures ("gestation stalls") barely wider than their bodies, where they are forced to birth litter after litter.
* Until the recent "Mad Cow" scare, beef and dairy cattle too weak to stand ("downers") were dragged or pushed to their slaughter.
* Geese and ducks are force-fed the human equivalent of 30 pounds of food per day to enlarge their liver, the better to meet the demand for foie gras. On fur farms, animals are electrocuted or their necks are snapped, or they are trapped and stomped to death. These concrete examples show that animals endure terror at the hands of humans on a daily basis. This terror is given the full support of the goverment, and the majority of the public is uniformed of it. The Animal Liberation Front are at the front of providing the public the information about those who terrorize animals. This book provides an excellent explanation of why they do what they do, and defends their tactics from possible objections. All should read it and do what they can to support these heroes for what they do.
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Summary: Just what is needed
Review: Terrorists or Freedom Fighters is a unique look into the underground Animal Liberation movement. Until now, there has been no resource as vast, in-depth, and insightful as this book. Terrorists or Freedom Fighters successfully aims to give a legitimate analysis of the Animal Liberation Front. Regardless of whether or not one agrees with the actions of the ALF, it is hard to argue against the need for comprehensive analysis and intellectual dialogue. Thanks to Dr. Steven Best and Anthony J. Nocella II, Terrorists or Freedom Fighters has helped advance the study of the strategies, tactics, and goals of the Animal Liberation movement. It is a must-read for anyone who wishes to learn about and understand this complex and important movement. -Erin Ryan Fitzgerald
Syracuse Animal Rights Organization
www.SyracuseAnimalRights.com
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Summary: Vegan Warriors....
Review: the essays in this book are an excellent read. Gary Yourofsky's essay is strong and powerful, if any of you are able to catch one of his veganism presentations at a local college campus or university, it is a definite must. I am not just saying this because he is a close friend, I am saying this because he is one of the key speakers and believers in the animal rights movement today. Forget Rod Coronado, Gary is the real deal...
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Summary: thought-provoking, powerful, inspiring
Review: This is an anthology of essays by leading members of the animal rights movement about the tactics and goals of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and about the animal liberation movement generally. The ALF, whom the editors describe as "human activists who risk their own liberty to rescue and aid animals imprisoned in the worst forms of hell warped human minds can devise," is an anonymous, decentralized, underground network of people willing to take immediate and decisive action to save animals and confront those who exploit and kill them. Convinced that the time for moderation, delay, and compromise is over, these activists are unwilling to "fiddle while the earth burns and animal bodies pile up by the billions." The wide range of authors represented here include university professors, members of the aboveground part of the animal rights movement like PETA's Ingrid Newkirk, and former ALF members such as Ron Coronado, Gary Yourofsky, and Freeman Wicklund.
This book will open your eyes, and it may even change your life. I recommend it highly. --reviewed by Charles Patterson, author of ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust
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Summary: Lucid analysis of direct action on behalf of animals
Review: This scholarly work thoroughly explains the philosophy behind the Animal Liberation Front and its parallel to direct action activists of other social movements. After reading this book only those with a vested interest in perpetuating the forms of animals abuse that are commonplace in today's society will fail to see that the same issues that emancipated human slaves and paved the way for women's rights are being addressed by animal activists who risk their freedom and liberty to bring justice to those who suffer only because they were born to a mother of another species. Those with open minds will have a greater understanding of the Animal Liberation activists who act out of a sense of altruism, and of the forces at work to deny both animals and humans their very basic rights.
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Summary: Not Until
Review: Throughout history, "acceptable," "traditional," and "customary" practices have allowed the enslavement of humans, the negation of women's rights, the denial of a people's civil rights, and countless other atrocities. The human animal has given of its blood, sacrificed its freedom, and wreaked destruction against members of its own family in the battle against ignorance, prejudice, and inequality. However, not until The Animal Liberation Front took charge did those who suffer needlessly have someone who would pay the ultimate price in their name. Not until the Animal Liberation Front becomes an accepted voice for the voiceless will the "acceptable," "traditional," and "customary" ever change. Terrorist or Freedom Fighters? provides a comprehensive, intellectual study of the philosophy and tactics guiding the Animal Liberation Front. Steve Best and Anthony Nocella II provide an in-depth analysis of how direct action is not only essential to the animal rights movement, but also relevant to the history of all social justice movements. The book includes fascinating sections on topics such as history, tactics, media, and terrorism and includes voices from within the movement that are both supportive and critical of the ALF. Terrorist or Freedom Fighters? is a compilation of diverse animal rights voices, an unprecedented collection of ideas whose time has come. It is a book of serious scholarship. This book is sure to change the debate surrounding the ALF, within the animal rights movement and society as a whole, for much of the debate is conducted in ignorance of ALF history and philosophy. This is a must read for ALF fans and critics alike.
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