She was directed by Ronnie Lee to a training camp for activists, who at the time was working for the BUAV, before returning back to Maryland and breaking into Howard University. The president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, writes that an activist codenamed 'Valerie' flew to England, after the publicity triggered by the Silver Spring monkeys case. The animals were then returned five days later, after learning that legal action against the researcher could not proceed without the monkeys.

They were kept there are after a researcher from the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, had allegedly acted in violation of the animal cruelty legislation for laboratory practice. In Monkey Business, by Kathy Snow Guillermo, she writes that the first ALF action in the United States was the removal of the so-called Silver Spring monkeys, who were being cared for by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in a safehouse. from the Institute of Behavioral Research, that were being cared for by PETA. 1980s Main article: Britches (monkey) 1981 File:Silver-Spring-monkey.jpg It was reported that in early operations by the ALF, individuals targeted slaughterhouses, furriers, butchers shops, circuses, breeders and fast-food restaurants, causing ВЈ250,000 in the first year alone. He then collected up the remaining activists from the Band of Mercy upon his release, including another two douzen new willing activists, 30 in all, and the Animal Liberation Front was born. There had been daily demonstrations at the court uring their trial, including Lee's local Labour MP Ivor Clemitson. Two years after Ronnie Lee and Cliff Goodman had been charged for the raid on the Oxford Laboratory Animal Colonies in Bicester, as part of the Band of Mercy, the 'Bicester Two' as they were known Lee emerged even more militant than before. Background 1976 File:ALF logo.svgДЄLF logo Main article: Animal Liberation Front#Origins

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