Animal Protesters Now Making House Calls

Posted on July 8, 2008
Filed Under News, The Daily Prereq | By Nikki Martinez

Now that tree-sitting is losing its cache, UC protesters need to channel their energy into another cause. No longer content with breaking into labs and freeing monkeys or other comparatively benign methods of protest, animals-rights activists are making it personal. The Associated Press reports that several professors are being terrorized for conducting animal testing in their labs. Taking a page from anti-abortion groups, animal protesters are going directly to professors’ homes, harassing them and their families, defacing personal property, and even arming themselves with weapons. The protesters, who target scientists specializing in the aging brain, addiction, eyesight field, feel it’s their moral duty to quell the “needless torture and killing of animals.” Says one UC Berkeley organizer:

“An animal has as much of a right to life as we do. To take a life without provocation is immoral, it’s violent, there’s no excuse for it. To name and shame these people as morally bankrupt individuals in our society is key.”

The FBI has vowed to investigate the animal-rights incidents, claiming they’re a a form of terrorism because they’re driven by social or political motivations. Poor families of the scientists. The last thing I’d want to see while I’m having dinner is a Berkeley kid holding a stink-bomb… too easy?

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