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from the when-does-activism-become-terrorism dept.
I was saddened to hear that two individuals who released fur animals and vandalized fur farms across America were busted: http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/fbi-arrests-activists-accused-of-releasing-mink/article_6c169b5d-dbbc-5dd1-adb0-534ee46af88b.html
But the arrest is sort of beside the point and there are two interesting tidbits in there. First and less interesting, is the ridiculous charge of terrorism under the "Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act" -- seriously, what they did is just plain old crime. Before you know it, going 10 over on the freeway will be considered an act of terrorism.
More intriguing, despite a lack of details on how they got busted, is this tidbit:
The indictment states that they covered their tracks by avoiding phones or logging into known online accounts and email. Instead, they used public Internet computers and encrypted email and cash for purchases while traveling. They would allegedly withdraw hundreds of dollars while back home in the San Francisco Bay Area before another trip.
The FBI states that they drafted communiques and posted them online to publicize their actions on websites associated with "animal rights extremists."
I'm going to guess automatic license plate readers were involved. Pure guess.
(Score: 2) by gnuman on Monday July 27 2015, @03:14PM
It can be more unethical to allow the activities that take place on your property to continue taking place.
There is no longer any reason to skin animals. There are perfectly good artificial replacements.
People don't have to eat meat either. Not eating meat would free up millions of acres of arable land for other purposes, including forests and parks and wildlife sanctuaries.
So sorry, but I would disagree with going "the extra mile" and releasing nearly helpless animals to their deaths, while at the same time not even raising awareness that in US alone there is about 360 million chickens being hatched and killed every *week*, with about 180 million being adult chickens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poultry_farming_in_the_United_States#Meat [wikipedia.org]
In 2008, 9.08 billion chickens were slaughtered in the United States according to United States Department of Agriculture data
Similar data points are available for cattle, pigs, even horses, sheep, etc. etc.
As for skinning animals, at least those animals were farmed. Look to Texas for barbaric practices that are driving rattlesnake into endangered territory,
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/14/snakes-on-the-plain-texas-festival-sees-pageant-winners-wade-through-rattler-pit [theguardian.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattlesnake#Conservation_status [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:06AM
Yeah they do. Humans are not vegetarians, we're omnivores.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @11:43PM
So you'll die in a week without meat? What are you claiming here, exactly? Many people lives normal life spans as vegetarians. There is no need to eat meat, since not doing so does not cause clear and immediate death, or cause you to die in such a way that can be linked to the mere choice not to eat meat.