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I wish i had links..but I am sure there exists interviews and other material from SHAC people that went to prison talking about why they chose the tactics they did.

I would be willing to bet one of the reasons is disillusionment from being involved in similar PETA tier activity you described and realizing it doesn't get anywhere or _FEEL_ like it gets anywhere.

I am sure you are aware there are usually more radical elements and more liberal, reformist, etc elements to any movement or whatever. So while there are the PETA kids of this decade you bemoan, there are also still ALF actions happening, or even things like Direct Action Everywhere...

Direct action on behalf of _the_animals_ also seems like a less messy endeavor in a lot of ways than a lot of the politics around uhhh "human liberation". Besides most people thinking you are fucking insane for your animal activism/philosophy. And then there's the whole single issue nature of it...

I don't know, sorry for the shotgun approach to commenting :p