Unoffensive Animal

May, Midlands UK.

received anonymously via email:

“A few days ago we visited a shooting estate in the Midlands. Almost immediately, we stumbled upon a Larsen trap. A magpie had been locked inside as bait, so we checked her over and took her to a safe refuge where she could receive veterinary treatment and recover. The trap was torn apart and put out of commission.

In the bushes nearby, we found a big floppy dildo. Presumably, it belonged to the gamekeeper, so after disinfecting it, we gave it back by super-glueing it to the seat of a shooting platform near his house. We left as quickly as we had arrived, but not as silently. Three other shooting platforms were torn to the ground and destroyed as we fled into the darkness with our rescued magpie friend.

Until every gun is silenced, we will be in the forests, the fields, and the country estates to save our wildlife, and to say it loudly: all shooters are big floppy dildos.”

3rd April, Argentina.

via: @anarcoveganismo.arg

ENGLISH (translation):

“It’s their lives, not ours” is often shouted in the streets among speciesists but how much do we value their lives? Imagine being tortured/slaved and that your destiny is to have your throat slit, would you expect total abolition or at least that someone would risk everything to at least help you escape from that misery? This is what we always ask ourselves with some, very few companions.

There are people who rescue animals from the streets that are abandoned to their fate (dogs or cats) there are other people who rescue together with the police using the few laws that are left on their side to non-human animals, such as horses for example, but what is left to animals from exploitation?

There are no laws that regulate their fate whether they are pigs, cows or chickens. One thing is to rescue and another to liberate.

Even if it is a life “it is their life”.
Animals cannot wait for the end of speciesism, our complacency limits us to what we are doing and “up to here I can do” for the other animals, but is it enough? Do you really believe that you save animals without cutting their cages? We don’t think so.

As we firmly maintain that animals are not anyone’s property, and that it is not even expropriation.  It is an act of liberation of slaves to take direct action in our hands and save lives…which are theirs, not ours. Even if in the act we consequently lose our own freedom because we owe it to them.

Self-organising can be achieved collectively with an objective purpose as long as we are clear about the urgency that the end deserves. We are also clear to those pessimists that we will not free all the animals in the world in this way, but “What if you were in their place?
“IF YOU WERE THE VICTIM?” ”How long would you give your oppressor?” Self-organise now!”

SPANISH (original):

“Son sus vidas, no las nuestras” se suele gritar en las calles entre especistas pero que tanto valoramos sus vidas? Imagínate estar siendo tortutado/esclavizado y que tu destino sea ser degollado , esperarías la abolicion total o al menos que alguien lo arriesgue todo para al menos ayudarte a escapar de esa miseria? Es lo que siempre nos preguntamos con algunxs, muy pocxs compañerxs.Hay personas que rescatan animales de las calles que son abandonados a su suerte(perros o gatos) hay otras personas que rescatan junto a la policía utilizando las pocas leyes que les quedan de su lado a los animales no humanos, como a caballos por ejemplo, pero que les queda a los animales de la explotación? No hay leyes que regulen su destino si son cerdos ,vacas o pollos. Una cosa es rescatar y otra liberar.Aun que sea una vida “es su vida”Los animales no pueden esperar por el fin de el especismo, nuestra autocomplacencia nos limita a lo que estamos haciendo y “hasta acá puedo hacer” por los demás animales, pero es suficiente? De verdad creen que salvan a los animales sin cortar sus jaulas? No lo creemos así. Como sostenemos firmemente que los animales no son la propiedad de nadie,y que no es expropiación siquiera. Es un acto de liberacion de esclavxs tomar en nuestras manos la acción directa y salvar vidas…que son las suyas , no las nuestras . Aun que en el acto por consecuencia perdamos nuestra propia libertad porque se lo debemos.Lo autogestivo puede lograrse de manera colectiva con un propósito objetivo siempre y cuando tengamos en claro la urgencia qué merece el fin. Tenemos también bien en claro para esxs pesimistas que de esta manera no liberaremos a todos los animales del mundo,pero “y si estuvieras en su lugar?” “SI FUERAS VOS LA VÍCTIMA?” “Cuanto tiempo le darías a tu opresor?” Autogestionate ya!”

29th April, Verona Italy.

Editor’s note: We did not manage to download the original media sent by the anonymous activists, so images are from local media.

received anonymously via email:

“We wrote on the walls of the local headquarters of Federcaccia, condemning their hunting activities and the lack of respect for non human animals.”

23rd March, Argentina.

via: @anarchoveganismo.arg

ENGLISH (translation):

“[Anarcoveganismo does not claim responsibility for any crime or vandalism, but we think it is important to spread all the news sent to us through anonymous messages].

It was learned that during the early hours of Saturday morning three double trailers with crates transporting live chickens to slaughterhouses were set on fire (the crates were empty).

A local source described this event as “doubtful”, since no “electrical failure” was found and it seems to have been intentional. Even though it was not related to any insurance issue, there is no way that only one of the trailers could have caught fire out of nowhere, nor is it understood how the three trailers could have caught fire at such a distance from each other. Everything indicates that since there were no birds in any of the trailers, they were set on fire.

This news makes us happy, regardless of the purpose of this fire, in those trucks full of crates thousands of chickens are transported to slaughterhouses, they have no chance of escaping death and even if some arrive already lifeless, most of them can see how their brothers are killed under the supremacist human hand. We believe that those who directly fight the murderous speciesist machinery fight speciesism with a bare fist by boycotting, and destroying against all odds, or against all consequences.”

SPANISH (original):

“[Anarcoveganismo no se atribuye ningun hecho delictivo o vandalico, pero nos parece importante difundir todas las noticias que nos envían mediante mensajes anónimos]

Se supo que durante la madrugada del Sábado se incendiaron tres acoplados dobles con cajones qué transportan pollos vivos a mataderos (los cajones se encontraban vacíos)

Una fuente local tildó de “dudoso” este hecho, ya que no se encontro algún “fallo eléctrico” y al parecer fue intencional. Aun que no se lo relacionó con algun tema de seguro, no hay forma de que de la nada se pueda incendiar solo alguno de los acoplados, tampoco se entiende como los tres se terminan incendiando de manera total estando distanciados uno de los otros. Todo indica que al no haber aves en ninguno de los acoplados se procedió a incendiarlos.

Estas noticias nos alegran, mas alla de con que fin se haya hecho este incendio, en esos camiones repletos de cajones transportan miles de pollos a mataderos, no tienen ninguna chance de escapar de la muerte y aún que algunos llegan ya sin vida la mayoría pueden ver como son asesinados sus hermanos bajo la mano supremacísta humana. Creemos que quienes combaten de manera directa la maquinaria especista asesina combaten el especismo a puño limpio boicoteando, y destruyendo contra todo pronóstico, o contra toda consecuencia.”

9th May, UK.

received anonymously via email:

“A mother sheep suffering from a painful, untreated hoof infection and her beautiful newborn lamb have been rescued from a farm in England by a group of compassionate individuals.

She was first seen limping in a field, clearly left to suffer without veterinary care. The farmer had no intention of treating her—doing so would cost money. Instead, he chose to leave her in pain, hoping she would survive long enough for her lamb to reach slaughter weight in time for the Easter market.

We weren’t going to stand by and watch that happen. So we acted. We crossed the fences, entered the field, and carried the mother and her baby to safety—where they’ll be given the love and care they deserve.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of lambs are killed for Easter in the UK. One of the most violent ways to celebrate a holiday supposedly rooted in peace and renewal. We’re proud to have spared two lives from that brutality.”