Animal Warfare
'The British love animals' - it's a national cliche. But can love for animals justify violence against human beings? Last year hard-line animal rights activists inflicted more than
£6 million of damage on butchers, farms and laboratories throughout the country. Today their new and declared target is not property but people - someone, they say, will be killed. David Henshaw examines the aims and activities of an extraordinary and disturbing new breed of terrorist.
Next week in the studio,
Peter Taylor asks how far we are prepared to go to protect animals in a nation which eats over ten million of them every week.
Film editor TONY ROBINSON Research
MARK GREGORY, MALCOLM MCINTOSH Executive producer COLIN CAMERON Producer BILL LYONS BBC Manchester
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