The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is an international, decentralized political and social resistance movement that engages in and promotes non-violent direct action in protest against incidents of animal cruelty. The ALF removes animals from laboratories and farms, destroying facilities, arranging safe houses, veterinary care, and operating sanctuaries where the animals subsequently live. Active in over 40 countries, ALF cells operate clandestinely, consisting of small groups of friends and sometimes just one person, which makes the movement difficult for the authorities to monitor. Robin Webb of the British Animal Liberation Press Office has said: "That is why the ALF cannot be smashed,…   Read more

According to PETA, each year, more than 100 million animals - including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds - are killed in U.S. laboratories for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. Before their deaths, some are forced to inhale toxic fumes, others are immobilized in restraint devices for hours, some have holes drilled into their skulls, and others have their skin burned off or their spinal cords crushed. In addition to the torment of the actual experiments, animals in laboratories are deprived of everything that is natural and important to them—they…   Read more