Nicolas Atwood
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Nicolas Atwood is an American animal rights activist based in West Palm Beach, Florida. He maintains the Malaysia-registered ''
Bite Back ''Bite Back'' is a Malaysian-registered website and magazine that promotes the cause of the animal liberation movement, and specifically the Animal Liberation Front (ALF).Animal Liberation Front.Walsh, Gareth, and Calvert, Jonathan
"Unmasked: animal extremist waging war on Oxford"
''The Sunday Times'', February 19, 2006.
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Background

Originally from Chaska, Minnesota, Atwood is a former arts promoter with a postgraduate degree in business management from New York University. He has a number of animal rights-related convictions, including criminal damage.


SHAC and SPEAK

Atwood is said by '' The Sunday Times'' to have traveled to Britain to meet
Greg Avery Greg Avery is a British animal rights activist. His latest involvement is with Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), an international campaign to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), an animal testing company based in the UK a ...
of the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) campaign, which aims to close Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British and U.S.-based contract animal testing company. Atwood is also allegedly involved in the SPEAK campaign to stop the construction by Oxford University of a new animal-testing laboratory, believed by animal-rights activists to include plans for a new primate facility. According to ''The Sunday Times'', he has sent out e-mails naming Oxford academics who are targets of the animal rights movement, including
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, former head of the British Medical Research Council.


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Bite Back website
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