The University of California has been selected as the poster child of animal abuse at laboratories. It's been shown that the tactics are more effective if you just hit one person over and over and get them to quit what… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
I'm not saying people should go out and start killing," the California-based Vlasak says. But he's not saying activists shouldn't kill either, even though he's a doctor, devoted to mending people. "There's a lot of violence used against animals" Vlasak… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
It won't ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It's going to happen sooner or later. The Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front - sooner or later there's going to be someone getting hurt. And we have to accept that fact. It's going to happen. It's not going to hurt our movement. Our movement… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share
Whatever it takes to stop someone from abusing animals is certainly morally acceptable — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
I am personally not advocating violence. I am simply saying that it is a morally acceptable tactic and it may be useful in the… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is an effective means to stop people who abuse animals," "No strictly peaceful movement has succeeded in liberation," "I think the animal rights movement has been restrained in its use of force, mostly because people in the struggle are… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share
And I don't think you'd have to kill -- assassinate -- too many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in the amount… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
Nothing is more violent and radical than what's being done to non-human animals in our society. If a researcher won't stop abusing animals and… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, 10 million non-human lives. — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that's morally justifiable, in our opinion...There were… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
If animal abusers aren't going to stop perpetrating these types of atrocities, they ought to be stopped using whatever means necessary. What we're starting… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics. — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
