Anti-ALF Spokesperson Teresa Platt Leaves Fur Commission USA
Platt’s career as fur industry’s primary anti-Animal Liberation Front PR person ends.
Since 1998, Teresa Platt has been the fur industry’s main mouthpiece and media spokesperson on all things related to the Animal Liberation Front. During her tenure as public relations person for the Fur Commission USA, the ALF raided over 50 fur farms. Platt’s spoke frequently to the media about these actions. Her stock responses, quoted widely in the wake of ALF actions, included that released mink die from exposure, die from starvation, or that most get hit by cars.
Platt’s other work to fight the ALF included organizing the FCUSA’s “Neighborhood Watch” program to protect fur farms from the ALF, compiling dossiers on hundreds of activists for access by law enforcement, and organizing rewards for those who give information leading to the conviction of anyone for a fur-related ALF action.
Another notorious anti-animal rights figure (and the man credited for coining the term “eco-terrorism”) Ron Arnold credited Platt with-
“…assisting law enforcement officials to understand the complex network of criminal activists that attack various industries to forward ideological agendas, work that more than once put her life in danger.”
Reportedly Platt left the Fur Commission USA after the board elected to shift its budget away from public relations, and towards “farmer programs”.
Platt’s predecessor, Marsha Kelly, left the organization after her home address was published in The Final Nail #2.
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She ought to try dusting her mug with a little cruelty-free face powder. The shine off her cheeks and chin is blinding.
Just for the record, Teresa actually left FCUSA at the end of May. This is the first I’ve heard of it on an animal rights site. I’m surprised it took so long for the news to filter out.
The fur industry does not have a future and just needs to go away. Great work ALF
“released mink die from exposure, die from starvation, or that most get hit by cars.”
Does she have proof of that? And why does she care? The fur industry is going to kill them in far worse ways.