“Recently we received this picture; spotted by someone in Utrecht. Apparently this graffiti was already there for several weeks!
Even though we did not do this (and it’s not up to us to talk in the name of the person(s) that did this), we did wanted to share it. Apparently more people do not agree with the sale of foie gras.
Restaurant Bistronome des Arts (where this graffiti is/was) is one of the few restaurants in Utrecht that is still selling foie gras. Soon we will announce our next protest; Utrecht has to go foie gras-free. Will we see you then?”
DUTCH:
“Onlangs kregen we onderstaande foto doorgestuurd; gespot door iemand in Utrecht. Blijkbaar stond deze graffiti er op dat moment al enkele weken!
Hoewel dit niet door ons is gedaan (en het niet aan ons is om voor de dader(s) te spreken over deze actie) wilden we het toch even delen. Blijkbaar zijn meer mensen het niet eens met de verkoop van foie gras.
Restaurant Bistronome des Arts (waar deze graffiti staat/stond) is één van de weinige restaurants in Utrecht die nog steeds foie gras verkoopt. We kondigen snel onze volgende actie aan: Utrecht moet en zal foie gras vrij worden. Zien we je dan?”
“Thousands of buildings for the kidnap and murder go animals and the passivity that makes us accomplices to their death.
That complicity is normalising it, conforming, that complicity is their death penalty.
Where is the fight against the use and murder of animals? In a few outreach campaigns, teaching those monsters that they are not doing it right?
It is enough! We must act beyond what is comfortable, we must put ideas into action.
For that reason we visited a chicken farm, those chickens that would then reach your dinner table chipped up. We took eight beings with us, and they stopped being things, livestock, “something”, to become someone.
Due to the horrible conditions they lived in all might not make it, but from the moment they escaped that place they escaped the reason why they had been born. It is much more preferable for them to die without being abused, without being enslaved and without being “things”, rather than them dying in the hands of their master to end up in some monster’s stomach.
Even if it is one, that is more than enough. Every life matters, and every direct action counts, let’s take action against the machine that subjects them to abuse! Animal Liberators”
SPA (original)
“Miles de centros de secuestro y asesinato de animales por doquier y una pasividad que nos hace cómplices. Esa complicidad es normalización, esa complicidad es conformismo, esa complicidad es una condena a muerte. ¿y donde esta la oposición al exterminio y uso de animales? solo en algunas campañas de concientizacion? enseñandoles a lxs monstruxs lo mal que esta lo que hacen? No! es necesario, accionar mas allá de la comodidad, es necesario elevar las ideas hacia lo concreto. Por ello visitamos un centro de exterminio de gallinas, esas que después llegan descuartizadas a la mesa, de lxs ciudadanxs modelo. Pudimos llevarnos con nosotrxs 8 seres, que dejaron de ser una cosa, una mercancía, “algo”, para ser una vida. Debido a las condiciones a las que las someten, quizá no sobrevivan todas, pero desde el momento que salieron de ese lugar de exterminio, se rompió la lógica bajo la cual las hicieron nacer. Y es preferible que mueran sin ser sometidas, sin ser esclavas y sin estar cosificadas, a que mueran en manos de su carcelero para terminar en el estomago de algún monstrux humanx y por más que sea una sola, ya es mas que suficiente, cada vida vale, y cada acción directa cuenta, accionemos contra esa maquinaria de cosificación y sometimiento!
“all mink (800) released from pipkorn farm: a delayed response to the farmer’s open letter from 1999; sorry it took us so long to respond (we weren’t born yet). to remind you.
we like what you’ve done with the place: several new fences and a camera on your barn. these were easily circumvented without the airplanes you suspected from last time, with just a leisurely stroll around back, bolt cutters for the barbed wire, and wire cutters for the chicken wire fence. we also saw how many empty abandoned sheds there were, seems like you were already on your way out.
in this letter, you refered to the mink as “defenseless”, which you would know after analy electrocuting them year after year after year with no remorse. we saw how enlived and energized they were runnning in the field for the first time and believe that giving them a chance at life is better than the certain death they face at your hands. we also wonder whether the community will be so eager to help you after it was confirmed that the mink you held in close quarters developed and spread a specific mutation of covid in your commmunity in 2020. what is being a good neighbor? ruthlessly caging and slaughtering so many beautiful creatures every year? adding considerably to climate and ecological disaster? all just so rich people can have a new fancy fit?
your wealth is not worth more than one life and certainly not the hundreds of thousands you’ve murdered to date. we came to your farm to free the ones we could (and indeed uncaged every last one), but also to shut you down so the killing stops now. we will make good on this promise, with a little faster response time.”
MOTIVATED BY LOVE AND RESPECT FOR BARRY HORNE, ANIMAL LIBERATIONISTS FREED 1,000 MINK SLATED FOR CERTAIN DEATH THIS MONTH IN MASSILLON OHIO. THE FRIENDLY GUARD DOG GRACIOUSLY STOPPED BARKING, AIDING US IN OUR MISSION EVEN AS THE MINK SCREAMED IN EXCITEMENT ABOUT THEIR FREEDOM.
MINK ARE GENETICALLY WILD, AND SO EAGERLY RAN IN GRASS FOR THE FIRST TIME TOWARDS FREEDOM (WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM SOME SHREDDED CHEESE). THEY CAN NOW EXPECT HEALTHY LIVES IN NATURE. MINK ARE SOLITARY ANIMALS, BUT THESE POOR BABIES WERE FORCED INTO TINY WIRE CAGES STUFFED FULL OF OTHER MINK, UNTIL THEY WERE SCHEDULED FOR ANAL ELECTROCUTION OR GAS CHAMBERS IN PELTING SEASON (MID NOVEMBER- EARLY DECEMBER).
A NEARBY FARM WAS VISITED AS WELL, WHICH PREVIOUSLY HAD BEEN CONFIRMED TO HAVE MINK AND THERE WERE NO SURVIVORS FOUND: A HARSH REMINDER TO TAKE DECISIVE ACTION AS SOON AS YOU CAN.
WE HOPE THIS INSPIRES YOU, DEAR READERS, TO DESTROY ALL CAGES. WE ACT IN SOLIDARITY WITH ALL IMPRISONED BEINGS, INCLUDING THE BRAVE SOULS AT THE MASSILLON CHILD PRISON WHO HAVE COURAGEOUSLY RIOTED FOR THEIR FREEDOM. THERE HAS NOT BEEN A MINK LIBERATION IN THE LAND UNDER US OCCUPATION SINCE 2019. WE HOPE THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A RESURGENCE! CHECK OUT FINALNAIL.COM TO FIND A LIST OF ANIMAL TORTURE AND MURDER FACILITIES.”
“Nature reserves should be a sanctuary for ALL wildlife, regardless of species. But that’s not the case at Westhay National Nature reserve. What should be a place of safety was instead totally covered in traps. Mink rafts containing mammal traps barely hidden under plastic boxes and many visible from the public footpaths. Any mink captured inside would have been killed, given that the government has made it illegal to release them back into the wild.
We are horrified that Somerset Wildlife Trust are killing wildlife in their reserves. Fuck their speciesism, a mink has as much right to stay alive as a badger, an otter, or a redshank.
As fireworks terrorised animals near and far, we bashed at least 16 traps, leaving a bunch of them draped over signs and in walkways so the morning visitors could see for themselves that the wildlife haven is in fact a place of death. We also stole a trail camera that had been set up next to two of the traps. Footage on it showed a family of 3 beautiful mink going about their lives. We just hope we weren’t too late for them.
This action is dedicated to Barry Horne, who died on 5th November 2001. We will continue his fight for every animal who has ever suffered at the whims of humans.”
“VIDEO STORY OF THE « OPERATION ROSE » : LIBERATION OF FIVE PIGS IN AN INTENSIVE BREEDING, BY THE COLLECTIVE 269 LIBÉRATION ANIMALE .
Direct action illustrated by the videographer @lucie_aragon who has been documenting the fight of antispeciesists for several years and who joined us during this twentieth liberation carried out in Europe one night in spring 2022.
It is in memory of our comrade Rose, a sow that we liberated from a laboratory and welcomed into our sanctuary, that we conducted this twentieth direct action liberation on a spring night in 2022.
Accompanied by long-time comrades, we rescued 5 pigs from an intensive breeding.
There is something that is striking and obvious when we go into these places: the various technologies to handle, control and enclose the animals are of course horrors of the animal exploitation, but also the proof of their incredible strength and power of resistance.
The huge equipment of fences, cages, enclosures, and surveillance systems responds to their ability to resist and be offensive.
Animals are victims of the civilised capitalist world, but they should also be seen as political actors of resistance and as powerful beings who can shape the world.
Through the experiences that we share, we want to bring out the history of the exploited animals as a part of class societies, and in a perspective of struggle.”
PHOTO: A different action by 269 Libération Animale.
“In the middle of the night, guided by the bright lights of the machines building the monstrosity that will become HS2, we paid a visit to a farm in south Northamptonshire. We were not looking for badger cages, but that is what we found; piled up in a dark corner, surrounded by calves not older than a couple of months, knee deep in their own shit.
Badger killers are their own special breed of scum. It isn’t enough to just exploit cows on their land and the constant cycle of pheasant releases and pheasant murders every fucking year. They need more. They need to murder whole families who have lived in the same sett for many generations, keeping an eye on the land long before the human would turn it into sterile monocrop landscape.
We were not there for those cages, but we decided to destroy them all the same. The calves joined in the party, mooing to the sound of metal crunching under our boots.
On our way out of the barn we chose the biggest tractor we could find and made the farmer pay some justified retribution. Their abuse to the land, to cows and to badgers deserved so much more than a few bashed traps, so we ensured their early breakfast would be one of sadness, police reports and a huge hole in the pocket. They are going to spend a pretty penny if they want to drive that tractor again.
We left as we came, through the night, hating on HS2 and wishing suffering on animal abusers, with an owl flying above us and with determination to fight back against the anthropocene.
“Our brothers and sisters, who are imprisoned in pet shops and reduced to mere commodities are pretty much forgotten. We managed to rescue 1 mouse and 8 worms.
Still, we are sorry that we were not able to free all of them, but at least these creatures have had their lives changed.
They are no longer mere commodities, no longer serving as food or toys, but are in homes with people who love them.
“In solidarity with the hunt saboteurs who defended the bears in the Woods, a gang of anonymous activists crashed the bear hunt in Sweden. Among other things: vandalizing a shooting range, destroying hunting towers, and sending personal messages, both to the hunting organisation, and to individual hunters:
“STOP KILLING BEARS!”. – UNTIL ALL ARE FREE”
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