Are Real Animal Activists Committing Acts of Terror?
A thought-provoking book called Capers in The Churchyard–Animal Rights Advocacy in The Age of Terror by Lee Hall, Lawyer, Teacher and Legal Director for Friends of Animals (July, 2006), sheds light on alleged animal activists and terrorism. While I have not completed it yet, what I saw disturbed me enough to make me look at this whole issue again as well as do more research on the very small minority of people claiming to be animal activists who have gone too far. We have all read about the Huntingdon issue–it made headlines. Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) was originally formed to educate people on this issue and there were many other animal rights and animal welfare groups as well as just people who did not officially belong to any group who sent out alerts to their members or friends encouraging a non-violent, petition and letter-writing campaign. This peaceful campaign for change was supported by Animals in Print. The vast majority who responded to the campaign did things i
