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Animal Rights Extremists

Uploaded by spootyhead on Mar 04, 2007

Animal Rights Extremists

An extremist is one who advocates or resorts to measures beyond the norm. So an animal rights extremist is a person that would go beyond acceptable measures to fight for the rights of animals. Animal rights activists and animal rights extremist differs in the main reason that animal rights activist do not resort to violent acts, although extremist groups such as the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) claim to be non-violent. These extremists for animal rights are classified in society as deviant. They are deviant because they do not conform to society’s norms. These animal rights extremists do not share the same ideas and standards as most of the people in our society.

Animal rights extremists are infamous for striking at universities or medical labs where animals are used as test subjects. On April 28, 1999, a scientist that works at UCSF and his family were terrorized outside of his house where nine extremists broke windows and burnt an effigy of the scientist on to the lawn. At the Yerkes Regional Primate Center at Emory University police were forced to tear gas, mace, and arrest 60 violent demonstrators that were attempting to force there way into the center. This happened April 26, 1997. December 22, 1991, a fire was set by an animal rights organization that destroyed the Malecky Mink Ranch and everything inside of it, including the minks. The Ranch was working in collaboration with Oregon University concerning mink breeding and nutrition in the wild. On April 23, 1999, three laboratories were broke into and vandalized by demonstrators. A researcher was also violently confronted and equipment and windows were smashed. A few mice were also “rescued.” Some of the equipment that was damaged by the demonstrators was ironically cell cultures that were in the process of being developed to be used as a method of testing rather than animal test subjects. These incidents were commited by smaller individual groups of animal rights extremists and are not isolated events.

The ALF takes direct action against all forms of animal abuse. This action falls basically into two groups: 1) The rescue or liberation of animals from premises or establishments in order to save them from persecution. Such animals are usually taken to good homes where they will be properly cared for....

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Uploaded by:   spootyhead

Date:   03/04/2007

Category:   Social Issues

Length:   6 pages (1,333 words)

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