An ALF Interview with Dr. Jerry Vlasak

[Guest guest]

[Green Muze]For animal rights' activists there has long been debate, and somedivision, about how their work should be carried out. Some activistsbelieve in writing strong letters to companies that perform animalexperiments, other animal lovers abstain from eating meat or consumingany animal products; and some activists work to change laws at thegovernmental level.Within the animal rights' movement there is another faction thatbelieves in direct action to 'liberate' animals from suffering.Exalted as heroes and heroines by some, and branded terrorists byothers – the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is a worldwide philosophyof liberating animals from oppression. The ALF has two main mandates:save as many animals as possible and wreck as much economic havoc aspossible, on the institutions that are

harming the animals.We caught up with Dr. Jerry W. Vlasak, an American MD who is avolunteer Press Officer for the North American Animal Liberation PressOffice, to ask some questions about the ALF's form of animal activismand how animal rights is linked to the environmental crisis wecurrently face as a global community.Why does the ALF exist?The ALF exists to disrupt, financially cripple, and eventually bringto an end any industry that profits from the exploitation of animals.It is the result of a failure of more mainstream attempts to bringabout change on behalf of non-human animals being exploited,imprisoned, tortured and killed by humans.-- full story:http://www.greenmuze.com/animals/companions/623-an-alf-interview.html