Throughout most of middle and high school, I was the vegetarian outlier among my friends. I found out it did, but I didn’t stop using it -īack then, I didn’t know there were alternatives. I remember the ranklingįeeling I had after calling the 800 number on my toothpaste tube a few days later and asking a woman if the company tested its toothpaste on animals. When I was 10, I did, after finding a PETA pamphlet about animal rights at my friend’s house and bringing it home. My parents are ethical vegetarians but left it up to me to decide on my own. Before long, I wasn’t even vegan anymore.
I got a job in a coffee shop and life took over. My boyfriend and I split up and I moved back home. Seven years later, I’ve still never carried out an action. We watched countless videos shot surreptitiously inside vivisection laboratories and slaughterhouses,Īnd read deeply about rewilding and primitivism, talking about how we’d help take down the sick system, then live in a treehouse in the mountains and grow our own food. The anarchist sites we frequented gave us directions for reproducing zinesįrom PDFs, so we began to distribute them out of my boyfriend’s apartment and called our distro Black Masque.
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My boyfriend and I began penning a manifesto and planning our own actions, studying manuals for lockpicking and building incendiary devices. In a 1990 photo from the Animal Liberation Front, two activists posed after removing 82 beagles and 26 rabbits from a laboratory in Cambridge, England. McGowan looked like a hero to me and to others in the movement. By temporarily shutting down Superior Lumber’s operations, McGowan and five other activists delayed the untimely deaths of untold numbers of trees and animals whose habitats were being clear-cut.
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activist Daniel McGowan had recently signed a plea agreement ending a long trial for setting fire to the offices of Superior Lumber in Glendale, Ore., causing over $400,000 inĭamage. Including the most financially destructive act of domestic terrorism ever recorded: One of its autonomous cells had set fire to a $23 million housing development outside San Diego, completely destroying it. Group the Earth Liberation Front, which the United States government had come to regard as its greatest domestic “terrorist” threat. The 2005 report, called “Burning Rage,” told the story of the environmental extremist I was watching a “60 Minutes” report on YouTube when I realized I could burn down a logging station.