[Ceejache]

Just been listening to an interesting news item on Radio Five Live (an excellent station if I can say so). It concerned a village of about 300/400 people in Staffordshire and its residents, but in particular a certain resident who bred guinea pigs and then sold them to animal test centres. The ALF and other such organisations got hold of this and have since been terorising other residents in the village in a bid to ostracize him and his family from the local community. They have done this by threatening to put his neighbours windows through, threatened the local pub to bar him otherwise they would burn the place down including their cars and those of the landlords family, abusive phone calls to neighbours etc.etc. Basically they have started threatening the neighbours and associates of this man in a bid to get to him - and apparently this isnt the only case. The police spokesman said that it was very hard to stop this happening - I would have thought catching those responsible and giving them a good kicking would be a start.....;-) Whatever the reasoning there is no excuse for this sort of action - like has been said before, the ALF and others are not gaining any support from the general public by following this dire course of extreme 'witchhuntery'.

I consider myself an animal lover - but Morissey once said that how can we call ourselves a nation of animal lovers when about 95% of the population eat animal flesh? It does make quite a mockery of the term 'animal lover'. Your thoughts?