Operation Bite Back is a multi-phase Animal Liberation Front campaign targeting the American fur industry in the 1990s. Participants firebombed research laboratories and fur farms in Michigan, Utah, and the Pacific Northwest from June 1991 through 1992.[1] The campaign was known nationally and led to the creation of the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act to criminalize the damage of animal enterprise property.[2] Following Rod Coronado's 1994 arrest, the 1995 Operation Bite Back II campaign abandoned their former economic sabotage tactics and instead focused on animal liberation. Their Arritola Mink Farm raid in Mt. Angel, Oregon, released 10,000 mink, the largest animal liberation to date.[1] The campaign was still continuing by 2015.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Lambert, Laura (2011). "Animal Rights Movement". In Martin, Gus (ed.). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism (2nd ed.). SAGE Publications. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-4833-0564-6.
- ^ Potter, Will (April 12, 2011). Green is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege. ISBN 9780872865525.
- ^ Posluszna, Elzbieta (January 29, 2015). Environmental and Animal Rights Extremism, Terrorism, and National Security. ISBN 9780128017043.
Further reading
edit- Kuipers, Dean (2009). Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-60819-142-0.
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