Animal Liberation Front

noun

1. ALF. (in Britain) an animal-rights movement often using direct action

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Examples include the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front arson and vandalism campaigns in the 1990s and 2000s, which were more likely to target property rather than people.

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During a period known as the "Green Scare" in the mid-2000s, more than a dozen people associated with the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front were arrested as part of an FBI domestic terror operation.

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"The Animal Liberation Front will continue to break the law until the fur industry is eradicated."

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Buddenberg, who has been convicted of illegally releasing mink from commercial farms, and who identifies as a press officer for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office and a former member of the Animal Liberation Front, said that "laws and the corporate state have failed these animals. The Animal Liberation Front will continue to break the law until the fur industry is eradicated."

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He said he believed the Animal Liberation Front, an animal-rights activist group, was responsible for the release, because the words “ALF We’ll be back” were spray-painted on the farm, he said.

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