Animal Liberation Front

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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.

From Salon

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.

From New York Times

A group known as the Animal Liberation Front had previously claimed credit for releasing a much smaller number of mink at the farm in a previous incident years ago, the Times Bulletin in Van Wert reported.

From Seattle Times

Special Agent Tim Suttles told FOX 12 in Oregon that the group acted in the name of extremist groups such as the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front to commit a series of domestic terrorist crimes in the state as well as Washington, California, Colorado and Wyoming.

From Fox News

Bong wrote the character K specifically for Yeun, knowing his specific Korean American upbringing would help him breathe life into a man expected to serve as a bridge between the Americans in the Animal Liberation Front and the Koreans surrounding their efforts in Seoul.

From Washington Post