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The Animal People
2019 · Film · documentary · 97 min
Directed by Denis Hennelly, Casey Suchan
An unprecedented journey inside a radical animal rights campaign that shook multinational corporations to their core and led to the first-ever indictment of six young American activists for terrorism.
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The same government targets animal rights activists as terrorists. I suppose that make sense from the same government that drones babies and women and talks about human rights.
https://theintercept.com/2019/03/23/ecoterrorism-fbi-animal-rights/
https://theintercept.com/2019/12/12/animal-people-documentary-shac-protest-terrorism/
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/animal-rights-extremism-and-ecoterrorism
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For context Peta claims that 110 million animals are killed annually in the US for research purposes:
https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/animals-used-experimentation-factsheets/animal-experiments-overview/
The government considers members of eco and animal rights groups top national security threats and as domestic terrorists.
https://theintercept.com/2019/12/12/animal-people-documentary-shac-protest-terrorism/
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/animal-rights-extremism-and-ecoterrorism