Animal Liberation Front Views
The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) David Barbarash: Spokesman for the North American ALF Press Office, 1999 – Jan. 2003 has this to say:
“The Animal Liberation Front doesn’t really care what humans think of them.”
Quoted in “Save the Chickens” by Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle, Mar. 26, 2000.
“We don’t see the difference between the inherent rights of a human and the inherent rights of an animal.”
Quoted in “Save the Chickens” by Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle, Mar. 26, 2000.
“I am completely a nonviolent activist. I am quite outraged that I have been charged with the crimes. The RCMP is out to destroy me. We have already had a preliminary hearing and there is not a shred of physical evidence that links me to these crimes. It boggles my mind.”
Commenting on charges relating to razor blade-rigged envelopes sent to hunting guide outfitters; Boston Globe, Oct. 30, 1999.
“We do not consider the destruction of property, of things, to be committing violence. How does one do violence against something which is not alive?”
North American ALF Press Office press release, Oct. 24, 1999.
“Fur, leather, wool, meat, chicken, dairy – animals do not exist for us to use just because we have a taste for their flesh or their milk. There is even abuse in the dairy industry. To have a cow constantly impregnated or milked is not natural.”
Sheboygan Press [Wisconsin], Oct. 10, 1999.
“What it comes down to, I believe, is that they’re scared. They know our potential, even if most of us don’t. They know the threat we pose to their bullshit way of life. … You’ve heard it before, and I’m not afraid of proclaiming it: Let’s hit them where it hurts the most. Figure it out. Be secure. Be tribal. Go for the jugular.”
In a letter to Earth First Journal, 1994; reproduced by the Ecoterror Response Network, www.cdfe.org/indict.html. “They” he defines as “those who are, quite simply, wrong about what life is all about.”
