Why do people consider animal liberation terrorism?

Question

stuff like what the Liberation fronts do? busting animals out of cages.

It's like...if a fur farmer came to your house and took YOUR dog, most people would probably shoot the person, and even be within legal right to do so.

yet if if a fur farmer takes ANOTHER animal, it's great and american to skin that one. and anyone who tries to stop it should be tortured in prison.

does that strike anyone as hugely hypocritical? is there any major difference between YOUR animal and THAT animal?

Answer 1

Ahhhh yes there is...It is my animal and the fur farmers animals are theirs!:) Quite often when the animals are "liberated" they die from starvation or in a more recent one they ran out into the highway and were run over! Most fur farms went out of business years ago. Trapping is almost nonexistent today. Mostly because of people deciding that they don't need fur to wear.  Just curious here.....who told you that people are tortured in prison for letting animals go?????

Answer 2

Yes, nonhuman animals are regarded as property.  That's the problem.  Check out Gary Francione's Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach - abolishing the property status of nonhuman rights bearers.

Rags.

Answer 3

Because what the fur farmer is doing is currently legal, and what the dog owner is doing is currently legal.

If you want to change how animals are treated, you need to work to change the laws regarding how animals can be treated.

As long as what the farmers are doing is legal, then what the liberators are doing is illegal - breaking into someones property, and stealing their property.

Even if what the farmers are doing is illegal, in the US we have rules about people taking the law into their own hands.  It is not illegal to get the sheriff's department to conduct a raid on a dog fighting facility.  It is illegal, though, to decide that you are going to bring that dog fighter to justice yourself by breaking into his facility and freeing the dogs yourself.

It's about the rule of law, really.

Answer 4

Animals have NO rights. Animals are property.

If someone steals property, they can legally be killed.

If anyone tried to steal my minks or other fur animals I breed for fur coats, I would kill them.

Property is property.

Steal my property and die.

Answer 5

NO THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BOTH SHOULD BE TREATED WITH RESPECT AND CONSIDERATION

Answer 6

Animal liberation usually includes burglary, destruction of personal property and theft the combination of which is truly a terrifying experience; i.e. terroristic or a form of terrorism.

Answer 7

BECAUSE animals are property.........

so you are stealing!

You could also get shot...

The ALF beat a man...IN FRONT OF HIS CHILD AND WIFE...now that's compassion, eh??