Everyone knows that police infiltrate criminal; political and  activists movements, in order to spy on them. These officials are not there to take sides or affect the movement, unlike any other class of infiltrators, the controlled opposition.

Sent by industrialists or political parties, the infiltrated controlled opposition are generally above reproach. They pose as supporters but also obtain key positions of a movement.

The animal rights movement is no exception as it harms the operation of lobby groups that remain profitable through misinformation or lack of government commitment.

The infiltrated can gather information, create tensions between the activists to avoid the creation of networks (divide and rule) but also sabotage the movement from within. The purpose of an association may also be diverted to more frivolous actions or drop its radical points of view.

Hans Ruesch unmasks many infiltrators in his book "The Naked Empress" which we highly recommend reading.

Peter Singer

In 1992, Hans Ruesch uncovered that Peter Singer, the so called guru of animal liberation, was partially sponsored for his lecture tour in Italy by the Rockefeller Foundation. Peter Singer's famous book "Animal Liberation" has also been published by the same Foundation.

It should be noted that the Rockefeller Foundation is pro-vivisection because it owns many chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical companies. It was the largest private funding source for research and education in medicine in the U.S. and Europe since the beginning of the 20th century.
No wonder that Peter Singer is against animal testing only for ethical reasons.

Abolitionists know that ethics have no impact, except to provide larger cages for animals, a little more aesthetic or an "enriched environment".

While there is scientific evidence that animal testing is a fraud, Singer says that vivisection works and is sometimes necessary for medical research.
According to him, primates may serve as guinea pigs for experiments in neurobiology and research on AIDS. The use of dogs seized in pounds could be "an example of the most defendable testing" because these animals end up euthanized anyway.
Peter Singer also considers as acceptable the killing of severely disabled children and to use humans as non-consensual subjects for tests in biomedical research, and this in certain circumstances.
Recently, he even justified sexual acts between humans and animals.1

Hans Ruesch wrote an article for the Italian Anti Vivisection League entitled "Who Peter Singer is".
The editor of the newspaper created a front page with the title "Peter Singer Is a Big Phoney".2

Furious, Singer requested a retraction, which never occurred, then filed a claim against Ruesch and LAV.
He paid (or had himself paid) for the greatest lawyer in Italy.
Anti-vivisectionist associations around the world have written Ruesch some letters of support. Some publishers stated that they were no longer going to publish Singer's book.3

Strangely, the judge refused to look at the documents which could have shown that Singer was in the pay of the pharmaceutical industry.
Ruesch lost the case, but only for defamation, at no time his scientific arguments were challenged or refuted.

1. 1. Abolition Vs Bien-être: les militants du bien-être animal sont nos pire ennemis (StopVivisection.org)
2. 2. Singer is a big Phoney (Journal de la Lega Anti-Vivisezione (LAV) en Italie)
3. 3. The Peter Singer Story (CIVIS n°24 - 2005)