Three of the 6 SHAC USA activists were sentenced (all six were convicted some months ago) of using their web site to incite threats and harassment against Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) in the US, as reported in Science magazine. It’s great to see that intimidatory, violent and often illegal behavior will not be tolerated either in the USA or the UK. Many animal rights extremists have seen the USA as some bolt hole or safe haven for their activities, believing that the US authorities would pay them little heed. The judgments handed out by the federal jury in Trenton New Jersey this week should be a wake up call that there are no free lunches, vegan or not, boys and girls.