Animal-Rights Terrorism Arrests Tied to 'Mainstream' Animal Charities
Animal-Rights Terror Suspects Connected to PETA and Its Quasi-Medical Front
Group
 
 
WASHINGTON, May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven leaders of the violent animal rights
group SHAC (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty) were taken into custody this
morning. A five-count federal indictment accuses SHAC's leaders of terrorizing and
stalking people because of their connections to disease research involving
animals. The impact of these arrests will also undoubtedly be felt inside
several "mainstream" animal rights charities: Some of today's arrestees are closely
connected to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and its
affiliated pseudo-medical front group, the Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine.
 
The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is America's premier research
organization uncovering the disturbing and violent underbelly of today's animal rights
movement.
 
"Arrested SHAC leader Joshua Harper received a $5,000 grant from PETA in
2001," said CCF director of research David Martosko. "Andy Stepanian organizes
rock concerts used by PETA to recruit teenagers into the radical animal rights
movement. In recent years, SHAC president (and recent arrestee) Kevin Jonas has
co-signed a series of letters with PETA Foundation president Neal Barnard,
aimed at convincing pharmaceutical companies to pull their business from SHAC's
main target. Barnard also runs the Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine (PCRM), PETA's quasi-medical front group."
 
"SHAC would never have existed without PETA," Martosko added. "SHAC may turn
out to be the mainstream animal-rights movement's Achilles Heel. PETA started
this ball rolling. And if there's any justice, it will be their undoing."
 
The Center For Consumer Freedom's in-depth analysis of the violent SHAC
organization is available at http://www.ActivistCash.com.
 
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