Two ‘antispecist’ militant vegans have been given jail sentences for attacking and burning a series of butchers, shops, and restaurants in northern France. The Criminal Court of Lille sentenced Cyrile, a 23-year-old social mediator, to 10 months’ imprisonment while 29-year-old nursery school worker Mathilde was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment on Monday, according to Le Figaro. The pair …
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Apr 08
3 Lambs Rescued by Protesters in Australia
Bizarre moment three lambs are handed over to vegan protesters after they stormed an Australian abattoir as part of the ‘largest protest the world has ever seen’ Lambs handed to animal rights activists after protest at abattoir at Yangan, QLD More than 20 protesters chained themselves to the machinery on Monday After two hours and …
Mar 23
THE GREEN SCARE How a Movement That Never Killed Anyone Became the FBI’s No. 1 Domestic Terrorism Threat
The Intercept by Alleen Brown Behind the scenes, corporate lobbying laid the groundwork for the Justice Department’s aggressive pursuit of so-called eco-terrorists. JOE DIBEE’S 12 YEARS on the lam came to an end last August, when Cuban authorities detained the 50-year-old environmental activist during a layover in Havana and turned him over to the United States. More …
Mar 21
Real-life Danny the Champion of the World liberates 5,000 pheasants from game farm
The London Economic by Jack Peat This is the moment animal activists claim they released nearly 5,000 pheasants from a game farm. Members of Animal Liberation Front crept into the farm they claim was breeding birds to be shot, and herded the pheasants out into the open. A video shows countless birds flapping to freedom …
Mar 08
WTF: No Jail Time For Man Accused Of Setting Caged Cat On Fire, Feeding It To Dogs
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A Miami man accused of killing a caged cat by setting it on fire, then feeding it to his dogs, received probation time Friday morning at his sentencing hearing. Mugshot for Roberto Hernandez. (Source: Miami-Dade County Corrections). Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Nushin Sayfie sentenced Roberto Hernandez, 19, to five years of probation, plus …
Mar 05
Shark dragger gets ‘slap on the wrist’ in Florida
By Samuel Hill March 5, 2019 A Florida commercial and charter fisherman has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges and faces 10 days in jail over a video that shows him dragging a shark behind his boat at a high speed. The video went viral in the summer of 2017. Michael Wenzel. Michael Wenzel, 22, entered a …
Mar 01
Activist Jailed for 15 Days for Freeing Bear Cub from Trap
Animal rights activist, 50, who freed a crying bear cub from a trap is JAILED for 15 days but plans to appeal because she made a ‘moral decision’ so ‘he could run back to his mother’ Catherine McCartney, 50, plans to appeal the sentence that was handed down to her on Tuesday by Municipal Court …
Feb 21
The moment hunters shoot at French vegan animal rights protesters who stepped in front of stag to try and save it
Footage shows protesters trying to put themselves between hunters and a stag Activists heard shouting ‘he is firing at us’ in clip filmed in Tarn, southern France Man says ‘first to come near is dead’ and accuses activists of ‘hitting’ his dogs By JULIAN ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE This is the moment hunters purportedly shot at vegan …
Feb 14
What the ‘meat paradox’ reveals about moral decision making
Many people eat factory-farmed meat while also abhorring animal cruelty. In this adaptation from her new book, the psychological scientist Dr Julia Shaw explains what the “meat paradox” can tell us about moral decision making. By Julia Shaw BBC News Money changes our relationship with morality. The very existence of money, along with complex business …
Feb 14
Food companies drop veggie show over animal rights extremism claims
Two of Sweden’s biggest food companies have pulled out of a vegetarian food fair. The decision by Ica and Axfood follows news that volunteers at Vegomässan, Sweden’s largest vegetarian food fair, had connections to the country’s Animal Liberation Front, which has set fire to farm buildings and threatened farmers’ children.
Feb 13
School bows to animal rights death threats (UK)
Field Sports Channel A school in England has cancelled an event with a local hunt after children received death threats from antis. The Leadon Vale Basset Hounds were due to make their annual visit to the Elms School in Herefordshire to show the children trailhunting. The school uses the meet as an opportunity to educate the children …
Jan 25
Putting understudied terrorists under a microscope
Michigan State University Bombs exploding, hostages taken and masked gunmen firing machine guns are all types of terrorist attacks we’ve seen. According to new Michigan State University research, it’s the attacks we don’t see—cyberattacks—that happen more often and can cause greater destruction. “Little work has been done around the use of the internet as an …
Jan 22
Snitch Alert, Melbourne, Australia: Farmer goes undercover as animal activist to get inside knowledge
Snitch Alert: Melbourne, Australia A WESTERN District farmer is acting as an undercover animal rights activist in a bid to protect his industry. The Weekly Times can reveal the sheep farmer began infiltrating animal rights groups four years ago because he believed activists were getting away with crimes with just a “slap on the wrist”. The …
Jan 22
Animal rights group accused of encouraging ‘illegal behaviour’ with map of farms and abattoirs
The Guardian (International Edition) Aussie Farms says online map will allow consumers to make ‘informed choices’ The agriculture minister has appealed to an animal activist group to pull down a website showing the location of hundreds of farms and abattoirs across Australia over concerns it will promote vigilantism and trespassing. A group called Aussie Farms …