Bite Back

[3] Its founder and editor, Nicolas Atwood, has said that Bite Back's mission is to "support animal rights prisoners of conscience and report on current events in the struggle.

[5] Bite Back was set up in 2001 by Atwood, an animal rights activist in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Bite Back acts as a forum for ALF activists, and a place they can leave claims of responsibility for direct action taken in pursuit of animal liberation.

[7] In 2006, it was used to encourage attacks against Oxford University, publishing personal details of academics and calling on supporters to "do whatever it takes" to "blow these fucking monsters off the planet".

[4] In 2007, when incendiary devices were found at Templeton College, Oxford, Bite Back reported a claim of responsibility on behalf of the Animal Liberation Front: "This latest action is part of an ongoing fight against the University of Oxford and its continued reign of terror over the unseen victims inside its animal labs.

**Bite Back Magazine #12** . The front cover features one of the twenty-two broiler chickens taken from Lloyds Animal Feeds in Wiltshire , England , with an ALF activist on November 3rd 2006. ^{[

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