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#194876 - 01/06/03 07:04 AM
Eco-Terrorism
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Rick Donaldson
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SUV's torched in Pennsylvania latest eco-terrorism claimed by radical environmental group
AP | 1/04/03 | TODD SPANGLER
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- In the latest in a string of vandalism carried out in the name of the Earth Liberation Front, members of the radical environmental group are claiming responsibility for a fire at a Pennsylvania auto dealership.
A posting on the group's Web site said the "attack" targeted SUVs in a fight "to remove the profit motive from the killing of the natural environment."
Jugs of gasoline were set ablaze under three vehicles, engulfing them and a nearby car in flames at a dealership in Girard, about 110 miles north of Pittsburgh, FBI Special Agent Bob Rudge said. Three other vehicles also had jugs of gasoline set under them but failed to ignite.
"I have no reason to doubt that it's an individual who committed the acts on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front," Rudge said.
The FBI considers the Earth Liberation Front one of the nation's most prolific domestic terrorist organizations. It is thought to be responsible for the 1998 torching of a ski resort in Vail, Colo., an arson that caused $12 million in damage and is considered the most destructive act of eco-terrorism in U.S. history.
ELF is loosely organized. Anyone who carries out an action under the group's guidelines and claims responsibility as part of the organization is considered a member. Over the past year, its name has been attached to a string of vandalism in Pennsylvania.
Last month, the group's Web site said ELF members and cells from the Animal Liberation Front set a Nov. 26 fire at a mink farm in Erie. The fire destroyed a barn, but no animals or people were harmed.
The group also claimed responsibility for an Aug. 11 fire at an unoccupied forest research station near Warren and the torching in March of a construction crane at a bridge work site in Erie, Rudge said.
ELF's claims of responsibility typically come through its Web site, where managers say they serve only as a media conduit for the group. A manager who did not provide an identity said in an e-mail that the communique about Wednesday's fire came in anonymously, as do all reports of ELF attacks.
Rudge said that communique, posted on the Web site, appeared to be authentic because it included information that hadn't been made public.
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On The Net:
Earth Liberation Front: http://www.earthliberationfront.com/
FBI in Pittsburgh: http://pittsburgh.fbi.gov/
Copyright 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved
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#194877 - 01/06/03 07:07 AM
Re: Eco-Terrorism
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Rick Donaldson
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PETA Pecks at KFC
The Sydney Morning Herald ^ | January 07,2003 | staff writer
Activists peck away at fried chicken giant
January 7 2003
A prominent animal welfare group yesterday began a global boycott of Kentucky Fried Chicken to seek an improvement in the lives and deaths of 700 million chickens that become the chain's fried meals every year.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals planned to pass out bumper stickers and fliers in North America, London and Bombay to launch a campaign pressing the chain to change the way its chickens are raised in large factory farms in the US and worldwide.
Among the suggestions are improving breeder hens' diets and gassing chickens to sleep before slaughter. It is the group's first effort to focus on restaurants worldwide and it comes when fast-food restaurants are under pressure on several fronts in the US.
With fat people trying to sue fast-food restaurants for helping to cause their obesity, the group hopes to tap into the growing public criticism of a fast-food diet as well as the nascent concern over farm animal welfare.
Instead of pushing for regulatory changes, the group wants restaurants to tell farmers they will not buy chickens raised and slaughtered under current conditions.
The group's website said: "When in natural surroundings, not on factory farms, [chickens] form friendships and social hierarchies, recognise one another, love their young, and enjoy a full life, dust bathing, making nests, roosting in trees, and more."
Chickens raised for KFC cannot do any of these things, it said. "They are crammed by the tens of thousands into sheds that stink of ammonia fumes from accumulated waste; they are given barely even room to move (each bird lives in the amount of space equivalent to a standard sheet of paper)."
Chickens are often still fully conscious as their throats are cut or when they are dumped into tanks of scalding hot water to remove their feathers, it said.
A spokesman for the group, Bruce Friedrich, said: "If people knew what happened to those chickens ... they wouldn't go to Kentucky Fried Chicken."
The fast-food giant's officials issued a statement that said: "KFC is committed to the wellbeing and humane treatment of chickens and we require all of our suppliers to follow welfare guidelines developed by us with leading experts on our animal welfare advisory council.
"Our suppliers are receiving unannounced audits at their poultry facilities throughout the year to ensure strict compliance with our guidelines."
Ian Duncan, a member of the advisory council and chairman of animal welfare in the Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences at the University of Guelph in Canada, said the animal welfare group may have a point.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals were very extreme and "exaggerate, but maybe that's what it takes", Dr Duncan said.
"I used to be very much against them, but I can see they are getting things done."
The changes the group seeks - giving the chickens more room to roam in their barns, improving the trucks that transport them to the slaughterhouses - would increase the cost of raising the animals, industry officials said.
The New York Times .
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#194878 - 01/07/03 06:47 AM
Re: Eco-Terrorism
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Rick Donaldson
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ELF claims responsibility for setting SUVs on fire
The Olympian ^ | 1/5/03 | AP
ELF claims responsibility for setting SUVs on fire
Group says arson aimed at removing 'profit motive' from manufacturer
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH -- In the latest in a string of vandalism carried out in the name of the Earth Liberation Front, members of the radical group are claiming responsibility for a fire at a Pennsylvania auto dealership.
A posting on the group's Web site said the "attack" targeted SUVs in a fight "to remove the profit motive from the killing of the natural environment."
Jugs of gasoline were set ablaze under three vehicles, engulfing them and a nearby car in flames Wednesday at a dealership in Girard, about 110 miles north of Pittsburgh, FBI Special Agent Bob Rudge said. Three other vehicles also had jugs of gasoline set under them but failed to ignite.
"I have no reason to doubt that it's an individual who committed the acts on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front," Rudge said.
The FBI has dubbed the Earth Liberation Front a "domestic terrorist organization."
It is thought to be responsible for the 1998 torching of a ski resort in Vail, Colo., an arson that caused $12 million in damage and is considered the most destructive act of sabotage in U.S. history.
ELF is loosely organized. Anyone who carries out an action under the group's guidelines and claims responsibility as part of the organization is considered a member. Over the past year, its name has been attached to a string of vandalism in Pennsylvania.
Last month, the group's Web site said ELF members and cells from the Animal Liberation Front set a Nov. 26 fire at a mink farm in Erie. The fire destroyed a barn. No animals or people were harmed.
The group also claimed responsibility for an Aug. 11 fire at an unoccupied forest research station near Warren and the torching in March of a construction crane at a bridge work site in Erie, Rudge said.
ELF's claims of responsibility typically come through its Web site, where managers say they serve only as a media conduit for the group. A manager who did not provide an identity said in an e-mail that the communique about Wednesday's fire came in anonymously, as do all reports of ELF attacks.
Rudge said that communique, posted on the Web site, appeared to be authentic because it included information that hadn't been made public.
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#194880 - 01/24/03 08:07 PM
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I am no lover of Greenpeace and the ELF sound like they should be used for compost (they should like that  ), but some "people" on that BB must be part of the Rockefeller family and/or shareholders.
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#194882 - 02/17/03 06:05 PM
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