Let's keep things in perspective here. What those battery cages do to those birds is torture - violence. Burning down a shop - as long as nobody is inside - is *not* violence. It may be questioned on the basis of tactical considerations, PR or fairness to property owners. But there is not doubt in my mind that the health and well-being of even a single animal (human or non-human) takes priority over the wellbeing on inanimate property.

Those of you getting on your high horse about compassion and the letter of the law, ask yourselves this: if you saw a child being sexually molested through the window of a house, would you break into a house to stop this?

Strypey

Strypey, it’s most disappointing to see that you put comments here that give the rest of us within the AR movement a bad name. Your attempt to justify burning down buildings/firebombing isn’t helpful because such action would alienate the community that the rest of us are trying to educate towards a more respectful, compassionate and healthy vegan world.

As for your analogy of breaking into a house to save a child from being molested is poor because. 1) I wouldn’t put myself in danger. I would call the police and be a witness to the event no matter how unpleasant it maybe since I would rather be emotionally scared than dead. 2) Such a situation is highly unlikely to happen since most child molesters are more cunning than to do it in the open like that. They rather do it behind closed doors and drawn curtains, except for the fools that put themselves on the internet with fragmented pictures that can be defrag’ed. 3) I suspect you used such an analogy only to emotionally manipulate the weak and feeble minded.

So in future think before you put not beneficial comments here.

Thank you.

I agree with Strypey, and shame on the people who call others names like Trolls. Its not very nice and is a very silly thing to do. I think there could be a person in the ar movement who likes to cause trouble. Not sure who it is, but obviously they are uneducated. Its sad and quite pathetic. Barry Horne was a great role model, and so what if he did burn down a department store. Who is going to miss it, a few capitalists? Sarah Watson

You're a sick person to support firebombing, Sarah.

Yeah go Strypey! Awesome comments man! You rock!

Wake up and grow up.