Riverside Animal Liberation Front targeted in FBI probe of farm attack RIVERSIDE —An FBI terrorism task force is investigating after an animal rights group took responsibility for cutting open fencing and releasing birds from a local southern california pheasant farm. New media reported late Friday that the agency’s joint terrorism task force is investigating the July 22 incident at the Ash Grove Pheasant Farm and Orchard in Riverside. The Animal Liberation Front —which openly advocates breaking the law to fight the exploitation of animals —described on its website how members wearing masks entered the farm about 55 miles east of Los Angeles and used wire cutters to tear open fencing at four of six pens on the property. “With basic tools and determination, anyone is capable of destroying the barrier that stands between an animal and their freedoms,” according to a communique posted on the group’s web site. Farm owners Don and Theresa Fitzgerald said they awoke to find their coop open and a pile of feathers where they believe a coyote ate one of the birds. Nine birds remained in the aviary, but some were so spooked and injured they had to be euthanized.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 17:16:22 +0000
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