From the Metro Santa Cruz

Vegan or animal rights activist? Firebombings or arson? Domestic terrorism or protest?

When people start throwing around this kind of loaded language, it’s no longer a debate over semantics. As soon as police and university officials declared last week’s attacks on the property of two UCSC professors to be acts of domestic terrorism, the door for nuanced discussion closed. Incendiary rhetoric was lobbed back, most notably by Jerry Vlasak, MD, of the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, who wrote in response to the attacks, “UC-Santa Cruz may consider themselves an institution of higher education, but they are also an institution of animal torture and killing. This is historically what happens whenever revolutionaries begin to take the oppression and suffering of their fellow beings seriously, whether human or nonhuman. It’s regrettable that certain scientists are willing to put their families at risk by choosing to do wasteful animal experiments in this day and age.” Click here to read more »