The case against animal rights and environmental extremism

Evidence

• Acts of Animal Rights Terrorism: This list offers the most complete chronology on the web of extremist acts committed in the name of animal rights and nature.
• Quotes from the leaders of the animal rights movement: Most people love animals and want to see them treated humanely and respectfully. They believe that animal rights proponents feel the same way they do about animals, just more passionately. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Animal rights doctrine is at odds with what the vast majority of Americans support. Read for yourself what top animal rights leaders say and make up your own mind. Here are quotes from the most well-known and powerful figures in the animal rights movement.
• CBC-TV Expose casts doubt on "dog fur" story (April 2000)

Legal

• New Jersey Superior Court decision in State v Baker (Note: PDF file) (April 2000)
• Veterinarian wins appeal; PeTA charges thrown out (July 2000)
• Laboratory sues PeTA Huntingdon loses business after undercover probe (July/Aug 97)
• PeTA files complaint against Gillette for fraud Gillette reports show zero testing on animals for cosmetic products in 1994-95 (March/April 96)
• Carolina Biological Supply wins case Court says evidence presented against the company was obtained illegally by PeTA (May/June 94)
• Coronado Sentencing Memorandum (Note: PDF file) This is a critically important document showing relationship between ALF and PETA: (1995)

Legislative and government reports, documents and press releases

• FBI report on eco-terrorism May 2004
• FBI most wanted: Scarpitti December 2003
• Report to Congress on the Extent and Effects of Domestic and International Terrorism on Animal Enterprises

Testimony against and censure of animal rights and environmental extremism

• Congressional hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Animal Rights and Ecoterrorism, May 2004
• Congressional hearing before the House Resource Committee on the threat of ecoterrorism, February 2002
• Congressional hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence regarding domestic and international terrorism, February 2002
• NAIA testimony submitted in support of Joint Terrorism Task Force September 2001
• AMA censures PeTA partners, the Physician Committee for Responsible
  Medicine (PCRM). (Note: PDF file) July 1990