Jake Conroy

American animal rights activist

Jake Conroy

Born| 1976 (age 47-48)

Connecticut, United States

Nationality| American
Occupation(s)| Design coordinator, Animal rights activist
Era| 1995-present
Known for| Sea Defence Alliance
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
SHAC 7
The Cranky Vegan
Website| jakeconroy.com

Jake Conroy is an American animal rights activist and vegan[1] who was involved with Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC),[2][3] an international campaign to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), an animal-testing company based in the UK and US, for which he designed and maintained the SHAC websites.[4][5] Conroy had previously been a co-founder and activist for an anti-whaling group Ocean Defense International, formally called Sea Defence Alliance,[6] and director of Northwest Animal Rights Network.[7]

He has been recognized as top 100 most influential vegans by Plant Based News.[8]

## Background[edit]

Conroy joined the animal rights movement in 1995 following an attack by the Animal Liberation Front on a restaurant in Bellevue, Washington near to where he lived.[9] He has been involved in a wide range of activism since graduating from art school volunteering with and organize various campaigns on local, regional, national and international levels.[10][11]

He was influenced by both his mother's involvement with Anti-Vietnam War Protests and his early interests in Hip Hop, Hardcore and Punk rock.[1][12]

Conroy works for Rainforest Action Network, an international environmental organization whose pressure campaigns help enact responsible corporate policies. He was featured in Joaquin Phoenix's 'The Animal People' documentary[13] about the SHAC7, and 'What the Health', a follow-up to the award-winning documentary Cowspiracy.[14]

He also co-founded Bite Back magazine which promotes the causes of the animal liberation movement and the Animal Liberation Front. He also helped create the popular food blog Plant Based on a Budget and has worked on justice campaign for people with HIV/AIDS, & anti-death penalty campaigns.[1]

## Ocean Defense International[edit]

Aged 22 years old, campaigning against the Makah whale hunt,[15][16] as co-founder and Vice President of Sea Defence Alliance/Ocean Defense International,[17][18] Conroy was arrested by U.S. Coast Guard for obstructing it while piloting a 19 foot RHIB. It was the first ever disruption of a whale hunt in US coastal waters.

By directly putting themselves between the hunted and hunter in various vessels, Jake and ODI reduced the anticipated kill of 20 Pacific Gray whales down to one.[19][20]

## SHAC campaign[edit]

On May 26, 2004, fifteen armed FBI agents broke small home in Pinole, California with Federal Air Marshals circling in helicopters.[21] Described as "target[ing] thousands of individuals and hundreds of companies in attacks designed to shut down Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS)",[22] of East Millstone near Princeton, Conroy was among seven animal rights advocates who were arrested in May 2004 (dubbed the SHAC7) and charged with trying to disrupt the work of the New Jersey pharmaceutical company. In its drug testing, HLS, a British firm, used dogs, primates and rats in vivisection experiments. "The group liken[ed] its activities to the Underground Railroad and the Boston Tea Party, and advocat[ing] protests, letter-writing, and what it call[ed] publicity stunts to disrupt Huntingdon Life Sciences".[23]

In 2006, branded as a "domestic terrorist", Conroy was sentenced to 4 years in prison for his involvement in the campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences as a member of SHAC USA,[24] one of the most successful animal rights campaigns in history leading to HLS's market value falling by 90%.[21] It was the first use of the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act.[25][26][27] Their appeal was denied.[28]

SHAC introduced targeted strategy to direct action, including a knowledge of modern business organization which understood that businesses are sustained by a wide selection of secondary and tertiary businesses including insurers, investors, even cafeteria suppliers, and targeted its actions at them as well.[21] Conroy's use of the internet was key to its success.[29]

The Animal Enterprise Protection Act had been signed into law by President George W. Bush to provide animal research facilities with federal protection against violent acts by "animal rights extremists", defining “Animal Enterprise Terrorism" as "physical disruption to the functioning of an animal enterprise by intentionally stealing, damaging, or causing the loss of any property (including animals or records)."[30]

## See also[edit]

* List of animal rights advocates

## Further reading[edit]

* UNITED STATES v. FULLMER et al. Nos. 06-4211, 06-4296, 06-4339, 06-4436, 06-4437, 06-4438, 06-4447. Decided: October 14, 2009[31][32]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement, David Naguib Pellow, University of Minnesota Press 2014, ISBN 9781452943046
2. ^ Vegetarians and Vegans in America Today, Karen Iacobbo, Michael Iacobbo, Praeger Publishers, 2006. ISBN 9780275990169
3. ^ The Animal Research War, P. Michael Conn, James V. Parker, Palgrave Macmillan, 12 May 2008. ISBN 9780230611993
4. ^ American Law Reports Annotations and Cases. ALR federal 2d · Volume 50 2010 p.682
5. ^ Intelligence Report: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Issues 105-108 2002. Klanwatch"
6. ^ Violence and Terrorism 04/05, Thomas J. Badey, 2003 McGraw-Hill/Dushkin p.105
7. ^ "NARN – Northwest Animal Rights Network – The Future is Vegan".
8. ^ "REVEALED: Top 100 Most Influential Vegans of 2017". 8 April 2017.
9. ^ This Country Must Change Essays on the Necessity of Revolution in the USA [1], Craig Rosebraugh, Jalil A. Muntaqim, Jonathan Paul, Arissa Media Group 2009 ISBN 9781936900039
10. ^ For the Wild: Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-Activism, Sarah M. Pike, University of California Press, 2017 ISBN 9780520294967
11. ^ Rebel Music Resistance Through Hip Hop and Punk, Information Age Publishing, Incorporated 2015, Editors: Anthony J. Nocella, Martha Diaz, Priya Parmar, Scott Robertson ISBN 9781623969110
12. ^ TEffective Activism & State Repression: An Interview with Jake Conroy on how the SHAC Campaign nearly bankrupt one of the largest animal testing labs in the world [2]
13. ^ Lennard, Natasha (December 12, 2019). "In New Documentary, Animal Rights Activists Prosecuted as Terrorists". The Intercept.
14. ^ "Facts". WHAT THE HEALTH.
15. ^ WHALE HUNT UPDATE: By Josh Harper, September 08, 1999
16. ^ Makah Indians Celebrate Whale Hunt, Associated PressTuesday, May 18, 1999 [3]
17. ^ Lethbridge Herald Newspaper Archives, May 18, 1999 Page 31
18. ^ "1999 Whale & Dolphin News - Whales on the Net". www.whales.org.au.
19. ^ "Jake Conroy [International Animal Rights Conference: 10.-13.9.2015 - Luxembourg]". ar-conference.org.
20. ^ Authenticity, p.68 Yolanda van Ede, Lit Verlag 2005, ISBN 9783825887544
21. ^ a b c I Fought The Law: A Review Of Terrorists Or Freedom Fighters?: Reflections On The Liberation Of Animals, Edited By Steven Best & Anthony J. Nocella Ii, Matthew Liebman, Journal of Animal Law 151 (2005)[4]
22. ^ Laville, Sandra. "Animal rights extremists still targeting lab" Archived 27 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, 24 December 2008
23. ^ Hanley, Robert (May 27, 2004). "Seven Animal Rights Advocates Arrested" - via NYTimes.com.
24. ^ Stabile, Nicholas C. (January 20, 2016). "Jake Conroy".
25. ^ Al-Qaeda Goes to College: Impact of the War on Terror on American Higher Education, James Castagnera. 2009 ABC-CLIO ISBN 9780313364297
26. ^ Battleground: Environment [2 Volumes], Robin Morris Collin, ABC-CLIO 2008. ISBN 9780313082405
27. ^ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the United States, Susan Burgess, Kate Leeman, SAGE Publications, 2016. ISBN 9781452292267
28. ^ Animal Law: Welfare, Interests, and Rights Front Cover, David S. Favre. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 9 Dec 2014
29. ^ Green Is the New Red, An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege (2011) by Will Potter p.1913 City Lights Publishers, ISBN 0872865525
30. ^ Radical Animal Rights Group Convicted of Inciting Violence, Stalking, March 9, 2006 [5]
31. ^ "UNITED STATES v. FULLMER (2009) | FindLaw".
32. ^ Animal Legal and Historical Center, Michigan State University College of Law [6]

## External links[edit]

* Official website
* YouTube Channel: Are We Winning
* The SHAC7
* Vegan Prisoners Support Group (VPSG)

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Animal rights

Topics (overviews, concepts, issues, cases)

| Overviews|

* Animal rights movement
* Animal rights by country or territory
* Anarchism and animal rights
* Animal rights and punk subculture
* Animal cruelty–Holocaust analogies
* Animal rights in Indian religions
* Christianity and animal rights
* History of animal rights
* List of international animal welfare conventions
* Moral status of animals in the ancient world
* Timeline of animal welfare and rights
* Total liberation
* Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare

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Concepts|

* Abolitionism
* Ahimsa
* Animal cognition
* Animal consciousness
* Animal ethics
* Animal–industrial complex
* Animal law
* Animal protectionism
* Animal welfare
* Animal-free agriculture
* Anthrozoology
* Argument from marginal cases
* Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness
* Carnism
* Equal consideration of interests
* Emotion in animals
* Ethics of eating meat
* Ethics of uncertain sentience
* Ethology
* Insects in ethics
* Meat paradox
* Nonviolence
* Open rescue
* Opposition to hunting
* Personism
* Replaceability argument
* Sentiocentrism
* Speciesism
* Veganism
* Vegaphobia
* Vegetarianism

Issues|

| Animal agriculture|

* Animal product
* Battery cage
* Bile bear
* Chick culling
* Concentrated animal feeding operation
* Fish farming
* Fur farming
* Fur trade
* Insect farming
* Intensive animal farming
* Intensive pig farming
* Livestock
* Poultry farming
* Slaughterhouse
* Wildlife farming
* Working animal
* Feedback (pork industry)
* Foam depopulation
* Ventilation shutdown

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Animal testing|

* Alternatives to animal testing
* Animal testing on non-human primates
* Animal testing regulations
* Labcorp Drug Development
* Great ape research ban
* Green Scare
* Huntingdon Life Sciences
* Model organism
* Nafovanny
* Operation Backfire
* Vivisection

Animal welfare|

* Animal euthanasia
* Cruelty to animals
* Pain in animals
* Pain in amphibians
* Pain in cephalopods
* Pain in crustaceans
* Pain in fish
* Pain in invertebrates
* Pain and suffering in laboratory animals
* Welfare of farmed insects

Fishing|

* Commercial fishing
* Fishing bait
* Recreational fishing

Wild animals|

* Culling wildlife
* Hare coursing
* Hunting
* International primate trade
* Ivory trade
* Predation problem
* Seal hunting
* Wild animal suffering
* Wildlife management

Other|

* Abandoned pets
* Animal sacrifice
* Animal slaughter
* Animal trial
* Animals in sport
* Live food
* Live export

Cases|

* Brown Dog affair
* Cambridge University primates
* McLibel case
* Monkey selfie copyright dispute
* Pit of despair
* SHAC
* Silver Spring monkeys
* University of California, Riverside 1985 laboratory raid
* Unnecessary Fuss
* War of the currents

Methodologies|

* Direct Action Everywhere
* Hunt sabotage

Observances|

* World Animal Day
* World Day for the End of Speciesism
* World Day for Laboratory Animals
* World Day for the End of Fishing

Advocates (academics, writers, activists)

| Academics
and writers|

| Contemporary|

* Carol J. Adams
* Aysha Akhtar
* Kristin Andrews
* Tom Beauchamp
* Marc Bekoff
* Steven Best
* Stephen St. C. Bostock
* Paola Cavalieri
* Stephen R. L. Clark
* Alasdair Cochrane
* J. M. Coetzee
* Alice Crary
* David DeGrazia
* Daniel Dombrowski
* Sue Donaldson
* Josephine Donovan
* Joan Dunayer
* Mylan Engel
* Catia Faria
* Lawrence Finsen
* Gary L. Francione
* Robert Garner
* Valéry Giroux
* Lori Gruen
* John Hadley
* Oscar Horta
* Dale Jamieson
* Kyle Johannsen
* Melanie Joy
* Hilda Kean
* Will Kymlicka
* Renan Larue
* Thomas Lepeltier
* Andrew Linzey
* Clair Linzey
* Dan Lyons
* David Nibert
* Martha Nussbaum
* Clare Palmer
* Charles Patterson
* David Pearce
* Jessica Pierce
* Evelyn Pluhar
* Mark Rowlands
* Richard D. Ryder
* Steve F. Sapontzis
* Jeff Sebo
* Jérôme Segal
* Peter Singer
* Gary Steiner
* Cass Sunstein
* David Sztybel
* Michael Tye
* Tatjana Višak
* Paul Waldau
* Corey Lee Wrenn

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Historical|

* Jeremy Bentham
* David Renaud Boullier
* Brigid Brophy
* Peter Buchan
* Mona Caird
* Priscilla Cohn
* Henry Crowe
* Herman Daggett
* Richard Dean
* Wilhelm Dietler
* William Hamilton Drummond
* Edward Payson Evans
* Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster
* John Galsworthy
* Thomas G. Gentry
* Arthur Helps
* John Hildrop
* John Zephaniah Holwell
* Soame Jenyns
* Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
* John Lawrence
* Charles R. Magel
* Jean Meslier
* Mary Midgley
* J. Howard Moore
* José Ferrater Mora
* Leonard Nelson
* Edward Nicholson
* Siobhan O'Sullivan
* Rod Preece
* Humphrey Primatt
* James Rachels
* Tom Regan
* Nathaniel Peabody Rogers
* Bernard Rollin
* Henry Stephens Salt
* Arthur Schopenhauer
* Laurids Smith
* John Styles
* Thomas Tryon
* Gary Varner
* Johann Friedrich Ludwig Volckmann
* Mary Anne Warren
* Adam Gottlieb Weigen
* Johann Heinrich Winckler
* Steven M. Wise
* Jon Wynne-Tyson

Activists|

| Contemporary|

* James Aspey
* Greg Avery
* Matt Ball
* Martin Balluch
* Carole Baskin
* Barbi Twins
* Brigitte Bardot
* Gene Baur
* Yves Bonnardel
* Joey Carbstrong
* Aymeric Caron
* Jake Conroy
* Rod Coronado
* Karen Dawn
* Chris DeRose
* John Feldmann
* Bruce Friedrich
* Juliet Gellatley
* Tal Gilboa
* Antoine Goetschel
* Mark Gold
* Brigitte Gothière
* Wayne Hsiung
* Charlotte Laws
* Ronnie Lee
* Howard Lyman
* Evanna Lynch
* Bill Maher
* Keith Mann
* Jim Mason
* Dan Mathews
* Jo-Anne McArthur
* Luísa Mell
* Virginia McKenna
* Ingrid Newkirk
* Heather Nicholson
* Jack Norris
* Ric O'Barry
* David Olivier
* Alex Pacheco
* Craig Rosebraugh
* Nathan Runkle
* Jasmin Singer
* Kim Stallwood
* Lynda Stoner
* Marianne Thieme
* Darren Thurston
* Christine Townend
* Wendy Turner-Webster
* Jerry Vlasak
* Louise Wallis
* Gary Yourofsky
* That Vegan Teacher

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Historical|

* Cleveland Amory
* Henry B. Amos
* Bob Barker
* Ernest Bell
* Edith Carrington
* Frances Power Cobbe
* Joan Court
* Karen Davis
* Royal Dixon
* Muriel Dowding
* Elizabeth Farians
* Emarel Freshel
* André Géraud
* Lewis Gompertz
* James Granger
* Nina Douglas-Hamilton
* Barry Horne
* Marie Huot
* Lizzy Lind af Hageby
* Jessie Mackay
* Norm Phelps
* Jill Phipps
* Maud Ingersoll Probasco
* Hans Ruesch
* Nell Shipman
* Henry Spira
* Andrew Tyler
* Gretchen Wyler

Movement (groups, parties)

| Groups|

| Contemporary|

* American Anti-Vivisection Society
* Animal Aid
* Animal Ethics
* Animal Justice
* Animal Justice Project
* Animal Legal Defense Fund
* Animal Liberation
* Animal Liberation Front
* Animal Rising
* AnimaNaturalis
* Anti-Vivisection Coalition
* Anonymous for the Voiceless
* Beauty Without Cruelty
* Born Free Foundation
* Centre for Animals and Social Justice
* Chinese Animal Protection Network
* Cruelty Free International
* Direct Action Everywhere
* Doctors Against Animal Experiments
* Equanimal
* Every Animal
* Farm Animal Rights Movement
* Faunalytics
* Great Ape Project
* Hunt Saboteurs Association
* In Defense of Animals
* Korea Animal Rights Advocates
* L214
* Last Chance for Animals
* Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition
* Mercy for Animals
* Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
* People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
* Rise for Animals
* Sentience Politics
* Uncaged Campaigns
* United Activists for Animal Rights
* United Poultry Concerns
* UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics
* Viva!
* Voice for Animals Humane Society

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Historical|

* Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society
* Canadian Anti-Vivisection Society
* Humanitarian League (1891–1919)
* Oxford Group

Parties|

* Animal Justice Party (Australia)
* Animal Politics EU (Europe)
* Animal Protection Party of Canada (Canada)
* Animal Justice Party of Finland (Finland)
* Animals' Party (Sweden)
* Animalist Movement (Italy)
* Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (Spain)
* DierAnimal (Belgium)
* Human Environment Animal Protection (Germany)
* Italian Animalist Party (Italy)
* Party for the Animals (Netherlands)
* People Animals Nature (Portugal)
* V-Partei³ (Germany)

Activism|

* Animal Rights National Conference

Media (books, films, periodicals, albums)

| Books|

* On Abstinence from Eating Animals (3rd century)
* Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes (1824)
* The Rights of Animals (1838)
* Animals' Rights (1892)
* Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology (1897)
* The Universal Kinship (1906)
* The New Ethics (1907)
* Animals, Men and Morals (1971)
* Animal Liberation (1975)
* The Case for Animal Rights (1983)
* Morals, Reason, and Animals (1987)
* Zoos and Animal Rights (1993)
* Animals, Property, and the Law (1995)
* The Lives of Animals (1999)
* Eternal Treblinka (2001)
* Do Animals Have Rights? (2005)
* Striking at the Roots (2008)
* An American Trilogy (2009)
* An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (2010)
* Animal Rights Without Liberation (2012)
* Political Animals and Animal Politics (2014)
* Animal (De)liberation (2016)
* Sentientist Politics (2018)
* Wild Animal Ethics (2020)
* Animal Ethics in the Wild (2022)
* Making a Stand for Animals (2022)

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Films|

* The Animals Film (1981)
* A Cow at My Table (1998)
* Shores of Silence (2000)
* The Witness (2000)
* Meet Your Meat (2002)
* Legally Blonde 2 (2003)
* The Meatrix (2003)
* Peaceable Kingdom (2004)
* Earthlings (2005)
* Behind the Mask (2006)
* Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007)
* The Cove (2009)
* Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home (2009)
* Forks Over Knives (2011)
* Vegucated (2011)
* An Apology to Elephants (2013)
* Speciesism: The Movie (2013)
* The Ghosts in Our Machine (2013)
* Unlocking the Cage (2016)
* Dominion (2018)
* Seaspiracy (2021)

Periodicals|

| Journals|

* Animal Sentience
* Between the Species
* Cahiers antispécistes
* Etica & Animali
* Journal of Animal Ethics
* Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism
* The Animals' Defender

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Magazines|

* Arkangel
* Bite Back
* Muutoksen kevät
* No Compromise
* Satya

Albums|

* Animal Liberation (1987)
* Tame Yourself (1991)
* Manifesto (2008)
* Salvation of Innocents (2014)
* Onward to Freedom (2014)

Fairs and exhibitions|

* Holocaust on your Plate (2003)

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