Many argue that the fight against animal usage in science involves only the terrorist acts of extreme groups who seek to justify their means of the liberation of these animals. But ask the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) who is the REAL terrorist and they will tell you it is the scientists and sponsors of experimentation. So what is the philosophy of these animal liberators?
"The aim of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) is to provide a space for the development of a “critical” approach to animal studies, one which perceives that relations between human and nonhuman animals are now at a point of crisis which implicates the planet as a whole. This dire situation is evident most dramatically in the intensified slaughter and exploitation of animals (who die by the tens of billions each year in the United States alone); the unfolding of the sixth great extinction crisis in the history of the planet (the last one being 65 million years ago); and the monumental environmental ecological threats of global warming, rainforest destruction, desertification, air and water pollution, and resource scarcity, to which animal agriculture is a prime contributor."
