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Primate Products Exposed: Anonymous Activists Release Photos

Anonymous activists leak gruesome photos from inside Primate Products

According to Bite Back, this week the recently-formed Animal Liberation Investigation Unit claimed responsibility for releasing horrific photos from inside Primate Products, a dealer of primates for vivisection.

The photos show numerous mutilated primates. The communique did not specify the source of the photos, but it is clear they were not intended for public release. The images will prove to provide more problems for a company that is already experiencing weekly demonstrations, and has had its trucks and an office set on fire.

View the photos here (Warning: graphic).

The Animal Liberation Investigation Unit communique is as follows:

The Animal Liberation Investigation Unit has obtained damning
photographs from within Primate Products, Inc. (www.primateproducts.com) in Miami, Florida. The photographs reveal the true faces of vivisection and the global primate trade.

The Animal Liberation Investigation Unit appears to be a recently formed leg of the underground movement, having claimed three actions (all in Europe) this year. I was unable to find a record of the ALIU prior to 2010.

In December I wrote about the new “intelligence unit” model, where activists are anonymously releasing incriminating or otherwise damaging information on animal exploiters.

In August, the previously unknown Fur Farm Intelligence Unit released the location of the Canada Mink Breeder’s Association Annual Meeting, the hotel check-in and check-out dates of each registrant, and addresses of fur farms owned by several attendees (likely to be vacant and unguarded during the conference). Months later, the FFIU disclosed the address of a previously unknown Oregon mink farm.

With the birth of the Animal Liberation Investigation Unit, anyone with damming information on animal absuers now has a title under which to claim and release such information. The ALIU title can now be used by employees inside labs, activists who break in and confiscate data, or anyone who obtains sensitive whistleblower information and wishes to release it anonymously.

I expect with the recent publicity surrounding whistleblowing generated by Wikileaks, combined with the new “Animal Liberation Investigation Unit” title under which to claim such leaks in the animal rights movement, we will see an increase in sensitive information on animal abusers being made public.

– Peter Young