Detroit school teacher
and animal rights convict Gary Yourofsky went on a hunger strike immediately
after being ordered to serve a six month sentence in a Canadian prison
for participating in an April 1997 fur farm raid. Yourofsky said he would not
eat for 40 days to protest the killing of 40 million animals each year
for fur. Other imprisoned animal rights activists were reportedly joining
in with sympathy hunger strikes of their own.

Numerous activists were arrested
involving protests during World Lab Animals Week at the end of April.
Six activists were arrested and charged with burglary for freeing animals
and damaging equipment at laboratories at Southern Methodist University
in a protest sponsored by Animal Liberation of Texas (can someone spell
R-I-C-O?)

Animal activists broke into
three research labs at the University of California at San Francisco,
overturning refrigerators and ruining at least one medical experiment
according to UCSF officials. Three activists were arrested by UCSF police
and charged with burglary. Ironically one of the labs compromised included
one where experiments were being conducted aimed at reducing the number
of animals being used in medical experiments.

Correction: this article originally described Gary Yourofsky as a \”convicted felon.\” Yourofsky\’s conviction was in Canada whose legal system does not use this particular way of classifying crimes, and this claim was inaccurate.