Subventionen für Tierfabriken und Futteranbau, Sozial- und Beratungsleistungen für Tierhalter*innen oder reduzierte Mehrwertsteuer auf Fleisch, Milch und Eier: Der Staat unterstützt die Tierwirtschaft und den Absatz tierbasierter Produkte auf vielfältige Weise.
Sociological text on the construction of the "other" by German activist, sociologist and author Birgit Mütherich (1959 - 2011).
Internal document of Information Network Associates (INA) about the animal rights movement, tactics and actions from 2010.
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 31(2):145-157 (February 2008) In February 2007, the Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility for the arson of two trucks in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. After analyzing this event, which triggered an unusual media response in the country, this article assesses recent and past actions of the radical animal liberation movement in Switzerland for the period from 2003 to the end of March 2007. This article also presents some features of the non-radical animal liberation movement in the German-speaking and Italian-speaking parts of the country and demonstrates possible links between the non-radical movement and the radical one.
German diploma thesis of activist and artist Hartmut Kiewert: "Plädoyer für einen anderen Umgang mit Tieren – Perspektiven für eine herrschafts- und gewaltfreie Gesellschaft".
Internal document of the German interior ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2004 about the animal rights movement (featuring Covance Schließen, ALF, SHAC, OGPI, Die Ratten).
From 1999 to 2014 "Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty - SHAC - [...] waged an international direct action campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences, Europe’s largest contract animal testing corporation. By targeting investors and business partners of HLS, SHAC repeatedly brought HLS to the brink of collapse, and it took direct assistance from the British government and an international counter-campaign of severe legal repression to keep the corporation afloat."
Internal Austrian documents including account of police informer "Danielle Durand". The Austrian §278a trial was a "Trial against the Animal Liberation Movement and its Background" which "represents a further stage of repression against political activists in Austria."
Tierrechts-Aktion-Nord (TAN) was founded in 1987 as Tierschutz Aktiv Nord (TAN) and is the longest existing animal rights group in Germany.
