Unoffensive Animal

13th December, Netherlands.

received anonymously via email:

“On Saturday, December 13th, people hung banners above the highway. The banners were hung at highway exits leading to cattle collection points where the research group Ongehoord recently filmed footage.

These images show that (milked-out) cows and calves are systematically exploited and abused. The violent behavior of these cattle traders is not an exception to the rule, but a daily reality and an unavoidable part of the dairy industry. After all, cows will never walk into a scary transport truck on their own: they have to be beaten into it. However, the existence of the “supervisory authority” NVWA suggests that animal-friendly treatment is possible.

The government wants us to believe that these practices are being monitored, but the NVWA represents the interests of the animal industry and will always prioritize the economy. This will never resolve itself until you and I take matters into our own hands.”

Autumn, UK.

received anonymously via email:

“As the nation gets ready to celebrate a bloodbath, 18 precious turkeys were saved from a factory farm. This action took place many weeks ago, ensuring the turkeys were still small and weren’t impacted by the fattening food given to them at farms. For their safety, we waited to announce their liberation.

If you can do one thing as we enter 2026, become more radical. The government is cracking down on protests and our personal rights. Let it empower you to fight back harder. Grab a balaclava and liberate animals in the night. Smash some shit up. Show these scumbags that we won’t bow down gracefully.

This action is in solidarity with every animal who will be murdered this Christmas. We’re trying, and we will try even harder every year until you’re free.”

23rd December, Germany.

received anonymously via email:

“Unfortunately, with this text we have to do exactly what we do not want to do – place humans at the center.

Yet, for once, this is necessary in order to clear away a misguided line of thought.

We are not heroes!

Animal liberation is not an act of greatness. Not a triumph. Not a moment for heroic narratives.

Those who glorify liberations, who step into the spotlight for an act meant for others, once again make themselves the center.

That is precisely part of the problem: the human who liberates themselves while claiming to rescue others.

Animal liberation also means stepping back. Understanding one’s own action not as moral capital, but as a consequence.

The liberation of non-human animals must not and cannot be seen as a heroic act. Neither by those who took part in a liberation, nor by those who heard about it and/or read about it.

This elevation of actions and actors inevitably leads to the acts themselves – and once again the human animal – being pushed to the foreground, rather than those who should actually matter.

Non-human animals are once again degraded to a side issue, once again treated as mere accessories, even though they are individuals who deserve attention – for their fucking lives in the industry.

This dynamic must be exposed as a reproduction of relations of domination: liberation becomes a stage, suffering the occasion for human self-presentation.

With this publication, we do not want to celebrate ourselves, but to encourage others to think and to act.

Out of necessity, action was taken:

Six individuals were able to escape the exploitative system of humans.

They will never again be reduced to means of production.

They are allowed to live their lives self-determined.

We will be back.

In Love ALF”

14th December, Netherlands.

received anonymously via email:

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“In the early morning on the 14h of December in the Netherlands we visited a logistics hub used to transport cows. There are 55 locations in the country with a license to transport animals this way. These hubs are the small points of failure that allow all other abuse in the industry to happen.

The weather was very misty which was a great advantage to us. After getting through 40 centimeters of cow feces with shoes not made to walk through cow shit and cutting through a fence we arrived at an open area.

On our right there was a stable and on our left 3 trucks used to transport them. Today we were there for the trucks. We cut their brakes, glued the air valves of their tires and decided to leave some messages on the trucks themselves, all while trying to not upset the cows too much about their unexpected visitors.

After about half an hour of messing around we got back, smelly but safe.

Earlier this week collectief Ongehoord (collective Unheard) released footage of 5 logistics hubs. This showed beatings, electrocuting an unresponsive cow 40 times and dragging one away with a forklift that couldn’t move on their own anymore. One of these hubs was already put under supposed stricter supervision by the NVWA (Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority) as response to earlier footage two years ago, which of course did not improve the situation.

To our circles these things are upsetting but not surprising, so it was so uplifting to see the public outcry when the footage entered the front pages. The farmers involved were condemned not just by us but by the general public. If we can show the people that the state can not be trusted to protect animal welfare and that the industry is based on murder and abuse at its very foundations, then the industry is doomed.”

13th December, Midlands UK.

received anonymously via email:

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“A simple task, perhaps not as courageous as others but a task nonetheless. Committed alone that you can try at home!

In the dead of night I was driving through a village and noticed brand new “Christmas turkey sold here” signs from a local farm. They’d just been put up that day and were what looked to be metal and expensive held up by wooden poles.

I returned the next day once again in the cover of night armed with boots and a saw. Cut all of the legs off. Bended them in half and disposed of them 14 signs to be precise. The turkeys are still in the farm but unfortunately as a solo I am unable to safely operate. If they buy more I will destroy more. Until every cage is empty and all signs are folded.

“It ain’t much but it’s honest work””

11th December, Pittsburgh USA.

received anonymously via email:

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“Locks glued at restaurant serving foie gras in Pittsburgh.

Sabotage!”

10th December, Netherlands.

received anonymously via email:

ENGLISH:

“In the night of Wednesday 10th of December we took the infamous cattle transporter De Keizer Vee in Oud-Alblas out of operation.

If a dog is overheating in a locked car, we smash the window to stop them from suffering. With the same reasoning we broke De Keizers’ transport vehicles and infamous shovel, in order to relieve the cows’ suffering (for now).

We can’t trust the government and the companies to fix the industry. Money is their highest priority. We have to do it ourselves. Following the same reasoning, you can sabotage too!

Together we can break the animal industry. Until every animal is free!

-The Animal Liberation Front (ALF)

*Footage from cow transport at De Keizer Vee, among other places: ongehoord.nl“

DUTCH:

“Op de nacht van woensdag 10 december hebben wij de befaamde* vee-verzamelplaats van De Keizer Vee in Oud-Alblas onklaar gemaakt.

Als een hond oververhit in een auto opgesloten zit, slaan we de ruit kapot, zodat we de hond kunnen bevrijden van diens lijden. Met dezelfde redenering hebben we Keizers transport-aanhangers en befaamde shovel kapot gemaakt, zodat daar (voorlopig) geen koeien meer zullen lijden.

We kunnen niet vertrouwen in de overheid en de bedrijven om de industrie aan te pakken. Geld heeft voor hun de hoogste prioriteit. Daarom moeten we er zelf iets aan doen.

Met dezelfde beredenering kun jij ook saboteren! Samen maken we de hele dierindustrie kapot. Totdat elk dier vrij is!

-Dierenbevrijdingsfront (ALF)

Beelden van koeientransport, waaronder bij De Keizer Vee: ongehoord.nl “

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20th November, USA.

“Received anonymously:

Two weeks ago, we visited one of the mink farms at a location not mentioned here for security reasons. After trudging through the woods and blackberry bushes for hours, since the farm was in such a remote location, we saw the sheds we were looking for for so long, and heard dogs barking somewhere far away. This property was so comfortable being hidden from the human eye that they did not even care to install a fence, other than some waist high barbed wire.

It was particularly silent in the sheds and we started to fear that this farmer already skinned their prisoners. How surprised were we, when cracking open the first barn door, we were met with not-less-surprised chickens, a split second of silence and eye-to-eye stare, followed by their confused chirp. We decided to leave them confused for a bit longer and go investigate the other barns.

Upon entering each of the following barns, we discovered either completely empty barns, empty mink cages, or mink cages dismantled into a metal pile. To make sure there is no mink left hostage, including the breeder stock, we opened the last barn that stood slightly aside from others, making us think that it would be the most likely location of the breeder mink. That barn, like the first one, made a surprised chicken chirp upon opening.

This farmer just recently made a switch from mink farming to the “cage-free” egg industry, and was dismantling the mink cages. But we still had some homies to help, so we came back to the first barn and took 2 hens away from their fate at the egg-laying farm life. We are sad we could take only 2, but we could not take more because of all the blackberry jungles and tools we already had on our hands. We regret not smashing every egg in those barns for hens to eat. But we learned that even in 2025, some (ex-)mink farmers have no fence or alarms.

Almost anyone with enough determination to end fur industry can pick a good target and do it. These 2 chickens now have lives that they did not even dream about, and to everyone activist out there still being on the fence: cut through it instead. They deserve it.

P.S. Rescued in solidarity with Zoe Rosenberg, Animal rescue is NOT a crime.

P.S. Although the exact location was not mentioned in the communique, it was relayed to people making the updated list of fur farms so that everyone can soon know that this farm is closed now.”

22nd November, Argentina.

ENG (translation):

“In Buenos Aires it is common to see birds exploited in houses. They are used, murdered for food, killed for religious rituals or made fight to death.

When there is a chance to grab one you must take advantage of the opportunity and free them from their slavery, that is why it is important to keep your eyes sharp and your brains awake, focused on animal liberation at all times, tomorrow is often too late.

xfrente de liberacion animalx”

SPANISH (original):

” Por los suburbios de buenos aires, es comun ver aves explotadas en las casas, estas aves son utilizadas y asesinadas para usarlas como alimento, rituales religiosos, riñas.

En cuanto surge la oportunidad de agarrar alguna hay que aprovechar la ocasion y liberarla de su condicion de esclavo, por eso es importante tener nuestros ojos sanos, mentes bien despiertas, enfocadas en la liberacion animal todo el tiempo, mañana suele ser tarde.

xfrente de liberacion animalx”