Animal Rights Extremism (page 112)

George magazine, founded by John F. Kennedy Jr., has folded. With its passing, the nannies will lose one of its better media connections. Not long ago, George ran an article…

The Animal Liberation Front is at it again. This time they didn’t use poison to perpetrate terror as they did before when they injected 200 frozen turkeys with anti-freeze, but firebombs to promote their message.

Consumers Union has also been accused of irresponsible reporting on Mad Cow disease. According to the Christian Science Monitor, scientists are upset that Consumers Union has been "scaring people" by alleging that the growth hormone rBGH -- used to increase milk production in cows - could increase a cow's susceptibility to Mad Cow disease. CU admitted that the "evidence to support this concern is very limited." Try nonexistent. Of course, we shouldn't be too surprised. This is the same group that fanned the Alar-on-apples fears back in 1989. (Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 26)

The Sierra Club has joined the Mad Cow scare campaign with an irresponsible article in their magazine Sierra linking “mad deer disease” to the possible spread of Mad Cow disease…

Animal rights activists always say their anti-choice terrorist activities are designed to destroy property, not harm people. You can throw that lofty principle out the window. Activists in Minnesota's twin cities claim that they have "avenged the deaths of hundreds of thousands of turkeys killed for the holiday season. Anti-freeze was injected into 200+ frozen turkeys in the following stores: Cub Foods, Lunds and Rainbow Foods."

The terrorists from the Animal Liberation Front are claiming responsibility for attacking several trucks belonging to a Vancouver, British Columbia meat distributor. A spokesman for the anti-choice group says, “It’s…

McDonald's concessions to animal rights groups on how it sources its animals are proving to be worthless. Last Friday, despite the concesions, members of the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front smashed windows and painted anti-meat slogans at McDonald's offices in New York. The groups decried what they called the company's 'animal slaughter' and its placing of 'profit, power, and greed ahead of life'.

Anti-choice groups are targeting hog farms in pollution lawsuits. One lawyer retained for the case called modern hog farms “animal concentration camps.” From all appearances, this is nothing more…

Mad cow disease has scared Europeans into a frenzy about all their food, not just beef. Now some activists are hinting that the disease may be here in the U.S.,…

Former employees and other animal rights campaigners bash the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and their "silly claims and goofy stunts."