Free the Animals: The Amazing True Story of the Animal Liberation Front

Newkirk, Ingrid

ISBN: 1930051220 
Pages: 400pp.
Publisher: Lantern Books
Year Published: 2000

The shattering account of one woman’s struggle against the forces supporting the abuse of animals, Free the Animals is the best-selling and action-packed story of underground adventure, as well as an eloquent plea for the rights of nonhuman animals.

Free the Animals, with a foreword by Chrissie Hynde, is the story of Valerie, a 23-year-old police officer in Montgomery County, Maryland, whose world was turned upside down when she learned about the abuses of animals in laboratories. The book describes how this law-abiding woman came to challenge the system by taking direct action and examines why ordinary people are moved to do extraordinary things on behalf of animals.