Activists tried to free 2,000 dogs from a Wisconsin research lab. Then came the tear gas.

It’s exceptionally rare that the tiny, perpetually marginal, and politically outmatched animal rights movement manages to capture national attention.

A lack of attention is that movement’s core problem and central organizing conundrum.

How can it convince the public to make space in their minds for something they’d really, really prefer not to: the industrialized torture […]