FIFTY “CHRISTMAS” TURKEYS LIBERATED FROM A FARM. IN MEMORY OF REGAN RUSSELL.

19th June, South East UK.

Received anonymously via email:

“The turkeys that will be murdered for Christmas dinners were born about three weeks ago. Taking advantage of the obvious size difference, we decided to pay a visit to a “free range” farm and take fifty of them with us.

We walked by sheds full of pigs, ducks and broilers until we saw a shed labeled “Turkey chicks”. Job done. As the shed was locked, we used the bolt cutters to cut the padlock and open the shed. We made sure not to leave the padlock behind, so to avoid leaving any tool marks in the farm. A quick check to ensure the door is not alarmed and we are in, and whilst someone keeps guard outside, the rest load fifty turkey chicks in bags. 

With a single heat lamp in the whole shed, they are all crammed in the same spot. They have been debeaked. There is still blood on the face of many of them. How fucking unnecessary and cruel can they be? To literally cut their beaks off you have to be some seriously evil scumbag. Sadly the tool cannot be found. It would’ve been nice to break it.

Once they are all loaded in the bags, we head outside and walk away into the night, with another fifty comrades that will have a chance in life.

We want to dedicate this action to Regan Russell, murdered under the truck wheels in front of a Toronto slaughterhouse, and we are hoping from our comrades worldwide to wake up to the reality that animal liberation is a war. Regan, like Jill or Mike, fell martyr in the fight for animal liberation. Don’t let their names be forgotten and fight back the oppressor until we win.

May the sad and frustration turn into flames for liberation.

Animal Liberation Front.”

CHICKEN SHED SMASHED

North of England, 12th June

Received anonymously via email:

“We visited an industrial egg farm; there were usually thousands of hens inside. This time the barn was empty of birds. Hens live a short life before egg production slows, then they’re sent to slaughter. It looked like the F’harmers were getting ready for the next batch of slaves to exploit.

This was the perfect opportunity for a bit of financial sabotage, with the barns set up with expensive machinery and no chance of causing casualties to any hens….

So with the help of some hefty tools and spray paint, we smashed fuck out of the shed! We bust off the hatch doors, slashed the egg conveyor belt, cut the water and feeding lines down, spray painted the inside and outside walls, we broke into the control room, smashed the control panel, smashed the windows, and the icing on the cake.. we set off the fire extinguisher to fill up the control room.

That’s gonna hurt them! That’s gonna to cost them! 

There’s many ways to fuck up animal exploiters, stinging them economically is an effective strategy. Hitting them again and again. Letting them know what it feels like to be vulnerable, scared and ashamed of the work they do, until they shut down, that’s the aim.

Get active, go out and hit your local animal abusing business and smash fuck out of their profits! Don’t let them remain comfortable while they profit from murder. Get creative and don’t forget to post your hit reports…let’s see what you’ve been up to, let’s inspire each other. If we want to see liberation we’ve gotta work for it. Let’s scare the fuck out of them!”

TURKEY RESCUED FROM A MEAT FARM.

15th May, Canada.

Received anonymously via email: 

“Over 20 million turkeys are brutally murdered every year in Canada to satisfy the human’s fetish for flesh. They are kept in horrific conditions but even if the conditions were idyllic, their lives are not ours to take.  

This facility is “free range & organic.” Or that’s what they like to claim. There is evidence this farm feeds turkeys antibiotic laden food to promote rapid growth. They are fed antibiotics from the time they are dumped inside the shed until they’re loaded onto a hauler.   

Unfortunately, sometimes even with the best care and endless love, they don’t make it when rescued at this stage in their life.   She was almost 3 months old when she was taken out of that shit hole.  She felt love, kindness, sunshine, fresh air, dirt and made friends with ducks, hens & roosters.  She is no longer with us because her body was so damaged that it simply gave out on her.  She was surrounded by people who loved her and left this world peacefully.  

Animals cannot wait for people to change their lifestyles. 

Exploiters should live in fear, anxiety and torment for the heinous crimes they inflict on our animal comrades.  It’s about fuckin time they feel exactly what non-humans feel.  

We are not playing nice anymore.  “

MCDONALDS WINDOWS SMASHED.

24th May, Polegate, South East UK. 

Received anonymously over email:

“The modern- style windows of this mcdonalds popped through nice and easy and silently using this little safety hammer (like the kind by emergency exits for smashing safety glass) – highly recommended for this type of window. You can pick them up for less than a fiver at halfords or a similar place.  

McDonald’s, this is just the start –  this is a call to everyone to shut down every place that abuses animals or profits from animals. 

Happy smashing and whatever else you see fit for total liberation now.”

121 HENS LIBERATED.

May 2020, Midlands UK.

Received anonymously via email:

“We entered the facility. Tens of thousands of hens inside a single shed. They were covered in mites and there were dying individuals on the floor. Who do we choose? We must leave thousands behind. We rounded up 121 individuals into crates and made our way to their new freedom. All we could do was apologise to the hens we had to leave behind. We saved so many, but had to leave so many more behind. 

As supply chains are down during the lockdown period, many eggs farmers are sending their hens to their deaths at an even earlier age. Well FUCK YOU! Lives cannot be disposed of like this. We will not sit by as you murder more innocent beings. We will not sit by as you profit from their bodies and lives.

FUCK THEM. FUCK THOSE WHO CONSUME ANIMAL PRODUCTS. GET ACTIVE. GET LIBERATING. SAVE LIVES. END THE EXPLOITATION. END THE OPPRESSION.”

FOUR PHEASANTS HELPED FREE OF A GAME FARM.

May, UK

Via: Stop The Cull

“Anonymous communique recieved:

In late May, we visited a factory farm for pheasants. Due to the nature of the site, a large liberation was out of the question so we opted to take four individuals out of this brutal reality.

After taking them from the wire cages, we cut off their plastic beak coverings. All of them had raw patches of skin where their back feathers had been ripped out so we checked for any septic wounds. We then released them into a woodland far from the rows upon rows of cages at the farm.

Although the overall impact will be minimal to the farmer, this action was life changing to those birds we took out who are now living free in the wild. Behind the vast numbers of gamebirds abused in this huge industry is each innocent victim, stuck in a metal cage just to have their offspring taken from them and shot out of the sky.

Until every bird flies free,

Animal Liberation Front”

6 HENS AIDED FREE OF A FARM.

17th May, France.

Received anonymously via email: 

“[FRENCH BELOW]

On the night of the 17th of may, in France, 6 hens were helped on their way out of the farm they were held prisoners in.

Before going to pick up these people I was afraid, very afraid, stomach ache, lots of movies in my head and in each one everything ended badly for me. But what can we learn from this? Our fear is paralyzing, our fear, if it governs us, is stronger than repression to prevent us from taking action.

I felt ashamed to be afraid because I kept asking myself : “what am I risking?”. And I knew the answer very well : “not much”. Women and men have always fought to have their rights recognized by risking death. But we are not risking death, we are risking deprivation of liberty at worst, and it is a risk we have a duty to take. Because THEIR lives are only deprivations of freedom, lives of shackles, of perpetual suffering that it is impossible for us to conceive.

These people have more bravery than any of us human allies will ever have, they resisted, survived Hell. And I have rarely felt as much admiration as I do for them, in front of their bodies broken by this system which were learning to move again, their almost featherless wings trying to beat, their legs scratching the ground for the first time. We must be their accomplices. These six hens will now live in peace in a place that will welcome them, but we must not wait until room in safe places become available to act. When there is the possibility : let’s go. But the rescues can only concern a tiny part of the oppressed and leave all the others behind.

We have to act differently, we have to learn from liberations without placements, in the wild, because this world should belong to them just as much as to us, because it already gives them back their freedom of movement. We must try to help them by every means that we have not yet exploited, and always stay by their side, learn from them because they are the most courageous people we will meet. Immerse ourselves in their realities, in the foul smells, the rows of cages, the industrialization of death, the places of death where too few humans go.

If you don’t overcome your fear, who will? If not now, when ?

In memory of our dead and for the future of the living.

[FRENCH]

Dans la nuit du 17 mai, en France, 6 poules ont reçu de l’aide pour s’échapper de l’élevage dans lequel elles étaient retenues prisonnières.

Avant d’aller chercher ces personnes j’avais peur, très peur, mal au ventre, plein de films dans la tête et dans chacun tout finissait mal pour moi. Mais qu’apprendre de cela ? Notre peur est paralysante, notre peur, si elle nous gouverne, est plus forte que la répression pour nous empêcher d’agir.

Je me sentais honteuse d’avoir peur car une question me taraudait : “qu’est-ce que je risque ?”. Et je savais très bien que la réponse était “pas grand chose”. De tout temps des femmes et des hommes se sont battu.e.s pour faire reconnaître leurs droits en risquant la mort. Nous ne risquons pas la mort, nous risquons au pire la privation de liberté, et c’est un risque que nous avons le devoir de prendre. Parce que leurs vies à elleux ne sont que privations de liberté, des vies d’entraves, de perpétuelle souffrance qu’il nous est impossible de concevoir.

Ces personnes ont plus de courage qu’aucun.e d’entre nous allié.e.s humain.e.s n’aura jamais, elles ont résisté, ont survécu à l’Enfer. Et j’ai rarement ressenti autant d’admiration que pour elles, devant leurs corps brisés par ce système qui réapprenaient à se mouvoir, leurs ailes presque sans plumes cherchant à battre, leurs pattes grattant le sol pour la première fois. Nous nous devons d’être leurs complices de luttes. Ces six poules vont maintenant vivre en paix dans un endroit qui va les accueillir, mais nous ne devons pas attendre que des places dans des lieux sûrs se libèrent pour agir. Quand il y en a la possibilité allons-y, mais les sauvetages ne peuvent concerner qu’une infime partie des opprimé.e.s et laissent toustes les autres derrière.

Nous devons agir autrement, nous devons apprendre des libérations sans placements, à l’extérieur, car ce monde devrait leur appartenir tout autant qu’à nous, car c’est déjà leur rendre leur liberté de mouvements. Nous devons tenter de les aider par chaque moyen que nous n’avons pas encore exploité, et toujours rester à leurs côtés, apprendre d’elleux car ce sont les personnes les plus courageuses que nous rencontrerons. Plonger dans leurs réalités, dans les odeurs nauséabondes, les rangées de cages, l’industrialisation de la mort, les mouroirs où trop peu d’humain.e.s se rendent.

Si tu ne dépasses pas ta peur, qui le fera ? Si ce n’est pas maintenant, quand ?

A la mémoire de nos mort.e.s et pour le futur des vivant.e.s.

BUTCHER SHOP SPRAYPAINTED.

29th May, Brighton.

Received anonymously via email: 

“On the 29th of May, we paid Canham & Sons butcher shop in Hove a 3am visit, covering every surface of the storefront with messages for them to see the next morning. The windows were plastered with “fuck speciesism” and “fund the next pandemic here”. Combined with ALF symbols we hope it sent a very clear message that their murder will not go unchallenged. 

We were inspired by the recent similar actions across Brighton which we hope to see continuing. Make butchers fucking afraid again. 

We were unable to take any photos and unfortunately the graffiti was gone by the time we were unable to pass by it next, but we hope getting if off cost them a pretty penny and keeps them up at night knowing we’ll be back. 

ALF”

Photo: web image, unrelated to the action.