The Animal Liberation Front strikes again
The Animal Liberation Front (ALF), an anonymous group of militant animal rights activists targeted a restaurant in Cambridge, England for serving foie gras. The Midsummer House found that its locks had been filled with glue and the doors and windows of the establishment vandalized. All this for a little duck liver.I have no respect for the ALF. Sure, I understand that animals are treated poorly and need a voice and I can sympathize with the thrill that must come in criminal activity when you think your cause is just. However, there are better ways to promote vegetarianism than through destruction of personal property.
Foie Gras has been removed from the Midsummer House menu so ALF got its way but as Paul Levy explores in an article about the incident, why foie gras? Why not boiler chickens which are much more common and suffer greatly during their short lives? Levy claims that there are class issues involved with ALF targets and I don't doubt it. I also think that there is less risk in going after a restaurant than a supermarket chain which makes members of the Animal Liberation Front a bunch of masked chickens (free-range, organic at best).
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