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The Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT) has this to say ...
The following quotes by J.P. Goodwin were made during his time with CAFT. By 2001, or perhaps by as early as 1997, he began working with the Humane Society of the United States.Ê(See Careers in the conflict industry: HSUS and the making of a conflict industrialist, FCUSA commentary, Aug. 21, 2001.)
J.P. Goodwin, Executive Director
"We have found that civil disobedience and direct action has been powerful in generating massive attention in our communities ... and has been very effective in traumatizing our targets."
(National Animal Rights Convention '97, June 27, 1997)
"We've started picketing outside the homes of the [department store] executives because these minks on these fur farms never get a chance to go home and relax. Those executives do not deserve a break. They do not deserve to go home and rest."
(Speech "No More Fur: Bringing the Fur Industry To Its Knees," World Congress for Animals, Washington, D.C., June 20, 1996)
"It's time for the animal rights movement to take this industry and drive the final nail into the coffin by whatever means it takes. If that means being outside the executives houses, if that means blockading their doors, whatever it takes."
(Speech "No More Fur: Bringing the Fur Industry To Its Knees," World Congress for Animals, Washington, D.C., June 20, 1996)
"My goal is the abolition of all animal agriculture."
(As quoted on AR-Views, an animal rights Internet discussion group)
"If the feed barn, and processing barns are away from the animals, and downwind, then they could be burned down. Otherwise mink releases are the only way to go."
(As quoted on AR-Views, an animal rights Internet discussion group)
Mike Nicosia, founder of Long Island NY chapter of CAFT
"We have a no-nonsense approach to destroying the fur trade. That means protests, civil disobedience and outreach, as well as supporting the ALF."
(Quoted in "Big brother under the bumper; Boulder residents find mysterious tracking systems on their cars," Boulder Weekly [Colorado], July 17, 2003)
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