Animal liberation movement
Activists
Greg Avery  · David Barbarash Steven Best  · Rod Coronado Barry Horne  · Keith Mann Ingrid Newkirk  · Alex Pacheco Robin Webb
Organizations
Animal Aid Animal Liberation Front BUAV Great Ape Project Justice Department PETA  · SPEAK Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
Issues
Animal rights · Animal testing Covance Declaration on Great Apes Factory farming  · Fur farming Huntingdon Life Sciences Speciesism  · Vivisection
Academics
Steven Best  · Jeremy Bentham Stephen Clark  · Tom Regan Richard D. Ryder  · Peter Singer
Category
Animal liberation movement

The Animal Rights Militia (ARM) is a name used by animal-rights activists who are prepared to carry out acts of violence against human beings. This work is copyrighted. ... The animal liberation movement or animal rights movement is the worldwide movement of individual activists, academics, and groups who campaign or engage in direct action against the use of non-human animals in animal testing, the meat, dairy, and fur farming industries, and in entertainment and sports. ... Greg Avery is a British animal rights activist and co-founder in November 1999 of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), an international campaign to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), a controversial animal-testing company with bases in Huntingdon, England, and New Jersey in the United States. ... David Barbarash is the North American press officer for the Animal Liberation Front. ... Dr. Steven Best Steven Best (born 1956) is an American animal rights activist, author, talk-show host, and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. ... Rod Coronado Rodney Adam Coronado is an eco-anarchist, animal rights activist, convicted arsonist, domestic terrorist, and a sometime contributer to the environmentalist Earth First! Journal. ... Barry Horne was an animal rights activist who died in Worcester hospital in the UK on 5 Nov 2001 following a series of hunger strikes made in protest. ... Keith Mann is a British animal-rights campaigner, believed to be a senior Animal Liberation Front activist. ... Ingrid Newkirk (born July 11, 1949) is a British-born animal rights activist, author, and the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the worlds largest animal rights organization. ... Alex Pacheco is an animal rights activist and co-founder (and former chairman) of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). ... Robin Webb appearing on Channel 4s Dispatches Robin Webb is the press officer for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) in the UK. He was previously a member of the ruling council of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), and a director of Animal Aid. ... Alternative meaning: Organisation (band). ... Animal Aid is the United Kingdoms largest animal rights group and one of the longest established in the world, having been founded in 1977. ... For other uses of the abbreviation ALF, see ALF (disambiguation) ALF logo Beagles removed by British ALF activists from a testing laboratory owned by Boots the Chemists. ... The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection is a pressure group based near Highbury Corner in North London, United Kingdom that campaigns peacefully against vivisection. ... The Great Ape Project aims to give the rights and protections given to all humans to every member of the great ape family. ... The Justice Department is a militant animal-rights organization, set up in Britain in 1993, and active there and in the United States. ... In physics and mathematics, peta (symbol: P) is a prefix in the SI system of units denoting 1015, or 1 000 000 000 000 000. ... SPEAK is a British animal rights campaign that aims to end animal experimentation and vivisection in the UK. The campaign was born out of Stop Primate Experimentation at Cambridge (SPEAC), [1] a campaign set up to oppose the construction at the University of Cambridge of a new primate testing facility... A monkey inside Huntingdon Life Sciences in the United States [1] Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) is an international animal-rights campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), Europes largest contract animal-testing laboratory, which is based in Huntingdon and Occold, England, and New Jersey in the United States. ... The Great Ape Project is campaigning for a Declaration on Great Apes. ... Filmed by PETA, Covance primate-testing lab, Vienna, Virginia, 2004-5. ... A monkey in a restraint tube filmed by PETA in Covance, Vienna, Virginia, 2004-5 [1] - Covance, Inc. ... The Great Ape Project, founded by Australian philosopher Peter Singer, is campaigning to have the United Nations endorse a Declaration on Great Apes. ... Female pigs used for breeding are confined most of their lives in gestation crates, which are too small to enable them to turn around. ... Fur farming is the agricultural practice of breeding or raising certain types of animals for their fur. ... Overview Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) is a commercial animal testing laboratory in Huntingdon, England. ... Speciesism involves assigning different values or rights to beings on the basis of their species. ... Anaesthetised rat in a stereotaxic restraining device about to undergo brain surgery. ... Dr. Steven Best Steven Best (born 1956) is an American animal rights activist, author, talk-show host, and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. ... Jeremy Bentham (IPA: ) (15 February 1748 – 6 June 1832) was an English gentleman, jurist, philosopher, eccentric, and legal and social reformer. ... Stephen Richard Lyster Clark (born October 30, 1945) is a British philosopher and international authority on animal rights, currently professor of philosophy and Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. ... Dr. Tom Regan Tom Regan (born November 28, 1938 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American philosopher and animal-rights activist. ... Richard D. Ryder (born 1940) is a British psychologist who, after performing psychology experiments on animals began to speak out against the practice and became and one of the pioneers of the modern animal liberation and animal rights movements. ... Prof. ...

ARM first came to widespread public attention in the UK in December 1998, during the 68-day hunger strike of animal-rights activist Barry Horne, when it threatened to assassinate a number of individuals involved in vivisection should Horne die. Barry Horne was an animal rights activist who died in Worcester hospital in the UK on 5 Nov 2001 following a series of hunger strikes made in protest. ... Anaesthetised rat in a stereotaxic restraining device about to undergo brain surgery. ...

Those threatened were Sir Colin Blakemore, chief executive of the Medical Research Council who made his name by sewing kittens' eyes shut at birth for studies into the effects of blindness; Clive Page of King’s College, London, a professor of pulmonary pharmacology and chair of the animal science group of the British Biosciences Federation; Mark Matfield of the Research Defence Society; and Christopher Brown, the owner of Hillgrove Farm in Oxfordshire, who was breeding kittens for laboratories. [1] Colin Blakemore is a neurobiologist specialising in vision. ... Current MRC logo The Medical Research Council (MRC) is a UK organisation dedicated to promot[ing] the balanced development of medical and related biological research in the UK. Organisation The MRC is one of seven Research Councils and is answerable to, although politically independent from, the Office of Science and... Blindness can be defined physiologically as the condition of lacking visual perception. ... Kings College London in London is the largest college in the federal University of London, with 21,500 registered students. ... The lungs flank the heart and great vessels in the chest cavity. ... Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon (φάρμακον) is drug, and logos (λόγος) is science) is the study of how chemical substances interact with living systems. ... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Latin Oxonia) is a county in South East England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Warwickshire. ...