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On Different Results of Direct Action

Animal Person

There is a profound difference between what Sea Shepherd does and what the Animal Liberation Front does, but there are also similarities, and those similarities increase in number if a direct action by the ALF (or anyone else) is an open rescue and therefore a direct defense of sentient nonhumans being attacked by humans.

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FBI Serves Search Warrant to ALF Supporter

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The FBI served a search warrant Monday on a Salt Lake City home occupied by a supporter of the Animal Liberation Front. The agents took computers, papers and other items it thought to be related to "animal enterprise terrorism," Young said, reciting language from the warrant. From the Iowa City Press-Citizen.

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Minnesota Activist Indicted for Animal Terrorism

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According to the indictment, unsealed today, DeMuth committed "animal enterprise terrorism and cause[d] economic damage to the animal enterprise in an amount exceeding $10,000" between Nov. The Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility for vandalizing two labs and three offices at the University of Iowa on Nov.

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University of Iowa Animal Lab Goes Underground

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14, 2004, break-in at animal research laboratories in the U of I’s Spence Laboratories and Seashore Hall cost about $425,000 and temporarily stalled some research. The Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility for the attack, in which masked intruders trashed computers and other equipment and stole hundreds of laboratory animals.

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100,000 Salmon Released in Sweden

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Both by saving individual animals and also by economic sabotage we make it harder and less profitable to continue to torture and kill animals. For the animals! DBF (Swedish Animal Liberation Front)"

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Beef Farm's Trucks Burned by Activists

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I had suspected Animal Liberation Front may have been involved and now they are in fact claiming responsibility for it with multiple details," Harris wrote. Harris Farms CEO and Chairman John Harris said in an email Tuesday that he and others with the ranch are "appalled by this senseless, but very alarming attack."

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