Supporters Group What is the Animal Liberation Front? Their presence on this site should in no way be taken to Here, without addition or alteration,Īnd the ALF FAQ. Sustains the vast apparatus of oppression is indeed vital but shuttingĭown the apparatus itself is what counts. So what can be done right now? Fighting the ideology that Scientifically literate way its promise is ever going to be realised. God" shouldn't spell the loss of paradise, too and there is only one Yet there's nothing soulful about rampant, pointlessĪnd utterly out-of-control suffering. Likewise, the prospect of eating genetically-engineered vatfood rather than intact animal flesh currently sounds disturbing. The blueprint to put an end to the primeval DNA regime might seem the vision Indeed to anyone of a humanistic or spirituo-religious disposition, On the weak, the old and the vulnerable that their present carnivorous habitsĮntail. In their traditional guise - in spite of the cruelty and suffering inflicted Would oppose the loss, for instance, of the symbolically-charged big predators Some people who care deeply about animals are still shockedĪt the implications of such an ambitious species-project. For it will mark the end of the ugliest chapter It will be as precisely dateable as any other historical milestone Īnd far more important. Pain in some (to us) obscure marine invertebrate - will be a well-definedĮvent. The world's last unpleasant experience - probably some (relatively) minor That are more beautiful than anything we can currently imagine. The molecularĪrchitecture of the old Darwinian Era will be succeeded by modes of consciousness The DNA-driven pain and malaise of our evolutionary past. This major transition in the evolution of life will replace This can be done only by using genetic-engineering and Such a strategy entails eradicating itsīiological roots. Liberating than babies and toddlers need liberating: they need lookingĪrgues that there is only one long-term way to abolish the ghastliness of Superstition as any? In one sense, after all, animals no more need They are "natural"? Or is homage to the pain-ridden products of Should we respect the ways of Nature simply because Life in a state of Nature is often little kinder than a life Would global veganism ensure a cruelty-free world? No, Managers and the bureaucrats in charge of the mass-killing apparatus. The same is true of most of our own vivisectors, abattoir Of sensibility" between their feelings and the effects of their actions They were motivated by a distorted sense of duty rather than a relishįor bloodshed or suffering for its own sake. Many were devoted husbands, loving fathers and cultivated family Human Holocaust were not sadistic psychopaths in the usual sense For most of the Nazi bureaucrats who actually organised the Jewish writer Hanna Arendt once wrote of the "banality The problem is not that our everyday language is emotive. Only the state-dependence of memory helps us forget just how bad pain canīe. Word "pain" evokes only a pale shadow of the frightfulness of Severe strikes us down personally, we are shocked. In fact, on the few occasions in life when pain that's even relatively What it feels like for our victims is more terrible than we can typically Of mechanised killing, even in their worst excesses, are rarely that bad? Unspeakably appalling? YetĮach day we pay - by our choice in food purchases - to have other livingĪn over-statement? Sensationalist? Surely factory-farming and the apparatus If only to a few seconds, to your child's face. Imagine the anguish caused by an oxyacetylene torch applied, In our attitude and behaviour toward them could scarcely be greater. Tend to match the capacities of human infants and toddlers. They would depict the Devil in human form."Įach day we butcher millions of other sentient beingsīecause we like the taste of their flesh. So badly that beyond doubt, if they were to formulate a religion, Creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers