The ALF ignited an incendiary device at Oneata Beef Company, causing $6,000 in damage. The ALF set two trucks on fire at the Conti Packing Co. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) donated $42,000 toward Coronado's defense, but he was imprisoned anyway and not released until 2001. Rod Coronado and other ALF members set a $1.2 million fire at Michigan State University's mink research facility. Rod Coronado set fire to a Hynek Malecky facility where mink pelts are dried, causing $96,000 in damage. The ALF destroyed records and smashed computers and other equipment during a laboratory raid at Texas Tech University, causing $700,000 in damage.ĪLF member Rod Coronado and others broke into the Oregon State University's experimental mink farm and set timed incendiary devices that caused $62,000 in damage. The ALF set timed incendiary devices at a meat company, where an apparently unexpected early morning crew smelled smoke and managed to flee to safety. The ALF set fires in a laboratory at a Veterans Administration hospital at the University of Arizona that caused $500,000 in damage. Melani poultry distribution company, where a fire caused $200,000 in damage. The words "ALF" and "murderers" were sprayed on walls at the V. The Animal Rights Militia, part of the ALF, claimed an arson fire at the San Jose Valley Veal & Beef Company that caused $10,000 in damage. The ALF claimed an attack on a University of Oregon laboratory that did nearly $120,000 in damage.Īn ALF arson attack at the University of California, Davis, Animal Diagnostics Laboratory destroyed a building and 20 vehicles, causing $5.1 million in damage. The ALF raided a laboratory at the University of California, Riverside, causing $700,000 in damage. The ALF raided the City of Hope National Medical Center, causing $400,000 in damage. What follows is a selection of 1984-2002 incidents, drawn from ALF/ELF communiqués, media reports, law enforcement officials and publications of the movement.Īn ALF raid at the University of Pennsylvania Head Injury Lab caused $60,000 in damage. This February, an FBI official testified to Congress that what he characterized as the leading eco-terrorist groups – the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) - had committed more than 600 criminal acts since 1996 that resulted in a minimum of $43 million in damage. Extremists within the environmental and animal rights movements have committed literally thousands of violent criminal acts in recent decades - arguably more than those from any other radical sector, left or right.Īlthough these extremists have yet to kill anyone in America, they have carried out arsons, firebombings, assaults, and attacks on animal-based businesses and laboratories.