Defend Direct Action
3rd May, Portland , OR, USA
According to media reports, The People’s Pig in Portland, Oregon, was hit on the 3rd of May. Three windows were broken, a fourth one was spray painted with a Veganarchist sign. End speciesism was painted underneath.
At this time we have not received a claim of responsibility.
May 10th, Louisville, CO USA
Received anonymously via email:
“Activists masked up and gave the corporate headquarters of Boulder Sausage a smashing welcome to the real animal liberation movement.
We aren’t here to persuade you to add plant based options and enable you to continue lining your pockets with money you use to slit throats and murder families. We’re here to watch your businesses burn to the fucking ground and make you fearful and ashamed of your work. As many cute local, grass fed, humanely raised buzzwords as you want to use, selling body parts that belonged to a person of a life will never be an ethical or respectable business practice. No to vegan capitalism. No to animal enslavement of any kind.
We hope this short and to-the-point video will inspire every individual reading this to do what they can to take similar action against evil animal exploiting businesses. We’re normal humans like you, you’re only a mask and a hammer away. And given the times, you’re probably now only just a hammer away.
Until all are free,
Long live the Animal Liberation Front.
P.S. to Boulder Sausage;
If you haven’t yet, check in on your delivery van. Some maintenance may be due.”
5th May, Brighton UK.
received anonymously via email:
“On the 5th May, we covered our faces, picked up a spray can and headed into Brighton. We were inspired by other actions of this kind which we have seen from others in our area. We are sick of seeing “high welfare” places selling animal products. They think this is guilt free, but we know that they are still using and abusing animals- “free range” and “high welfare” are just labels used so that humans can feel better about the abuse.
Local media picked up the story and printed a one sided story about how the shop owner is very upset. We hope that she and her customers think about what they are selling and paying for, and we are not sorry that this shop might fall into financial difficulty.
We have been very disappointed to see the response to the media, which is a lot of vegans being unsupportive, and saying that this action harms the ‘vegan movement’. To that, we say: we are the animal liberation movement. We are not fighting for more vegan options and acceptance in society. We are fighting for liberation.”
5th May, Brighton UK.
According to mainstream media, a cheese shop in Brighton was spray painted overnight in Brighton with “DAIRY = DEATH”.
The shop owner said “The emotional impact alone has been horrible, I’ve got that knotted, twisting feeling inside – my stomach’s still churning. When Sam saw it, he felt like he’d almost been punched.”
She said that the graffiti would cost “a small fortune to remove”.
May, Czech Republic.
“Crushed and beaten lives. Dot. Dust, stink and feathers. Dot. Arrive, leave. Dot. Take someone with us, leave someone behind. Dot. Cry and bang my head on the steering wheel. Dot. To be happy for every animal we have stolen from the underworld. Dot. Don‘t stop breathing. Dot. Return. Dot.
Fuck nirvana. If there are any future lives I want to be one of you. In a meat grinder if you understand… Without luck if you understand… Because we are just animals if you understand.
There are three rescue actions in this report with a total of 36 rescued animals, to whom we changed lives for the better.”
2nd May, South UK.
Received anonymously via email:
“Taking our daily exercise during lockdown, we came across this piece of shit eyesore! It didn’t take long to get this over and decided to go back when it was dark to finish the job off.
Theres still a lot of damage we can cause for the hunt scum, keep your eyes open for traps, towers, feeders etc when out and about, whilst social distancing obviously, we wouldn’t want to break the rules, just the fucking towers.
So get busy, smash them up, it’s good exercise.
Until all are free.”
1st April, Bochum, Germany,
received anonymously via email:
“Showing the general public that people who support cruelty have to deal with consequences.”
27th April, UK.
Via: Underground Badger Syndicate
“Poking around a local shoot, we stumbled across some Larsen traps. The scum seemed a little protective of them, they were located in view of their scum houses and the prisoners were padlocked inside. So we came back at night with our boltcutters to set them free and smash the shit outta the cages.
Three magpies were released and two traps destroyed. We’ll be back again soon to check there’s no more.
We dedicate this action for freedom to our friend Jess, an incredible warrior. ❤
FOR THE WILD!”
29th April, Brighton UK.
received anonymously via email:
“Responding to the call to action to take out our rage on speciesist businesses’ windows.
Enough of buying a plant based sausage roll and patting ourselves on the back. Let’s not hand our money and power over to evil corp and fool ourselves believing it’s a win. We want to see the economic sabotage of the blood industry, not support it. We want to see THEM pay. Remember whose side we are on. We stand with the animals whose bodies are being sold. Big and small, local and international, let’s smash the FUCK out of these exploiters. They profit from murder.
Hammer to glass or knife to throat, remember who has lost the most.
In the early hours of the morning, with the owners watching tv above, we glued the locks, left a message and smashed the fuck out of Rogman Butcher’s windows.
We are glad that many feel “This gives a bad name to veganism” because until veganism becomes active and antispeciesist, its name stinks of rotting capitalism.
We hope the butcher claims the loss to the insurance company and has it replaced free of cost, because that will bring the insurance cost up not just for them, but also for any butchers around the area. We hope that with enough windows smashed, all butchers go out of business unable to pay for more windows and insurance.
We hope this form of action catches fire and we see a relentless wave of window smashing through Brighton, through the UK and throughout the whole world.
We dedicate this action to the 13 rangers murdered in the Congo for protecting the wild.
Mask up from the virus, and the bigger killer, the cops.
ALF”
CONTENT WARNING: The footage featured in the video is disturbing.
In 2008 a group of people calling themselves the ALF Investigation Unit broke into a farm in Berkshire UK and filmed the conditions of the rabbits being exploited inside. They took several rabbits as well as caused several thousand pounds worth of damage. This is the report that was released with the video:
“On the eve of Barry Horne’s death, a group of volunteers accessed a rabbit ‘meat’ farm in Berkshire, U.K. This farm used to harbour hundreds of rabbits in the back of converted box lorries, but have recently upgraded their bunny butchering enterprise to four permanent and highly intensive units. Semi-built and set to be filled with hundreds of rabbits, we entered the site and bypassed top security measures.. the key was left in the door!
One unit was so full of rubble and electricity cables we almost didn’t expect to find any animals in such conditions. Further inspection found rows of cages, many with rabbits inside. All living on wire, many rabbits were blind, had ears missing and were rotting alive inside this windowless hell.
Even within a legal system that legitimises animal abuse, this sicko has still managed to torture animals beyond any legal requirements. The unit was in total disrepair, flooded with a mix of water and excrement, with open electricity wires and strewn with litter. None of the units had ventilation or air conditioning systems, despite being newly built. This farm was an excellent example of what ‘animal welfare’ means for animals: fuck all.
Needless to say we decided to make some legal corrections. After taking several rabbits to safety, who are now recovering in loving homes, we turned our attention to stopping this ‘man’ filling any more cages with defenceless animals. We cut every empty cage into pieces. Fuse boxes and machinery were glued and filled with expanding foam. Messages were left on the outer walls and doors before we vanished back into the darkness with our newly acquired friends.
This action was carried out in the memory of Barry, who continues to be an inspiration to us all despite his death at the hands of the British government.
– ALF Investigations Unit”