{"id":586,"date":"2012-02-25T17:21:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T01:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=586"},"modified":"2012-07-04T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T01:22:22","slug":"fbi-seeks-help-finding-eco-terrorists-who-firebombed-feed-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2012\/02\/25\/fbi-seeks-help-finding-eco-terrorists-who-firebombed-feed-trucks\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Seeks Help Finding \u2018Eco-terrorists&#8217; Who Firebombed Feed Trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/author\/alyssa_newcomb\">Alyssa Newcomb <\/a><br \/>\nFeb 25, 2012 4:44pm<br \/>\nABC NewsThe FBI is asking the public for help in identifying a group of \u201ceco-terror\u00a0 criminals\u201d\u00a0 who took responsibility for destroying 14 trucks at a ranch owned by California&#8217;s largest beef producer in January.<\/p>\n<p>During the early morning hours on Jan. 8, 2012, a group of animal liberation activists cut through a fence at the Harris Feeding Company in Coalinga, Calif., and set improvised incendiary devices beneath tractor trailers on the property, creating $2 million worth of damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe danger that this presents to all of us in the community can not be overstated,\u201d the FBI said in a statement released Friday that asked the public for help. \u201cAlthough the offenders may believe that they are being careful, each moment they spend working with these extremely sensitive and volatile materials places friends, family, neighbors, children, and other members of our community in grave danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported at the ranch.<\/p>\n<p>An anonymous group claimed responsibility on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animalliberationpressoffice.org\/\">North American Animal Liberation Front <\/a>\u2018s website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cwe&#8217;re not delusional enough to believe that this action will shut down the harris feeding company, let alone have any effect on factory farming as a whole. but we maintain that this type of action still has worth, if not solely for the participant&#8217;s peace of mind, then to show that despite guards, a constant worker presence, and razorwire fence, the enemy is still vulnerable,\u201d the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Harris Feeding Company spans 800 acres and produces almost 250,000 fed cattle per year.<\/p>\n<p>This is the most notable crime in terms of scale in recent years that has been tied to the animal liberation movement.<\/p>\n<p>Activists burned a University of California-Davis veterinary laboratory in 1987, and in 1992 they firebombed\u00a0a Michigan State University laboratory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alyssa Newcomb Feb 25, 2012 4:44pm ABC NewsThe FBI is asking the public for help in identifying a group of \u201ceco-terror\u00a0 criminals\u201d\u00a0 who took responsibility for destroying 14 trucks at a ranch owned by California&#8217;s largest beef producer in January. During the early morning hours on Jan. 8, 2012, a group of animal liberation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2012\/02\/25\/fbi-seeks-help-finding-eco-terrorists-who-firebombed-feed-trucks\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}