Saturday, August 08, 2009

Animal rights militancy comes to Switzerland...

Over the past decade Britons may have become familiar with pictures of desecrated graves, spray-painted threats and arson attacks from militant animal activists. But for the peace-loving Swiss, an upsurge in such events has been a rude awakening.

That may seem surprising given the country’s strong pharmaceuticals industry, which includes two of the world’s largest players, Novartis and Roche. Yet it reflects a new trend in the “export” of what had been a particularly British combination of animal rights fervency and aggressive extremism. More...

Don't miss:

  1. Animal rights militants fire-bomb Novartis chairman's home...
  2. Horse in Poland collapses and dies of sheer exhaustion...
  3. Vivisection, science gone mad...
  4. Britain: animal rights "urban terrorists" jailed for intimidation.
  5. Killing elephants to protect the ecosystem...

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