“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.”
On the 18th of September the world woke up to the news that Grupo de Respuesta Animal had struck again in Chile, this time against a meat packaging facility that had been set alight. A few weeks later, GRA released a communique explaining their action:
Two days ago we heard the news that chilean police had made four arrests in relation to that arson, claiming that the mobile phones of four people had been pinpointed into that location on the night of the action.
Today, the four comrades faced a judge, who has sent them to prison without possibility of bail whilst the cops investigate the case. They have not been charged and the filth could very easily be making up the evidence they’ve used to convince the judge to lock them up, but their case will be up for review in 70 days and until then they will remain behind bars.
Comrades in Chile have started to organise and donations as well as addresses for letter wirtting will be made public soon. We will publish those promptly after we have been made aware of how you can support.
“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:
DISCLAIMER: Due to the nature of the report, Unoffensive Animal would like to once again repeat that we are a media platform and do not promote the published actions, nor we know the authorship of the reports.
translated by a comrade and supporter:
“Most of all I regret my restraint, because regardless of the damage we caused to those businesses, if those farms are still open, if even one animal was left behind, then it wasn’t enough. I do not intend to rid myself of the consequences of these acts by begging for mercy or appealing to the conscience of the room, because if this system had a conscience I would not be here, in my place would be all the butchers, vivisectors and fur farmers around the world.” Peter Young, vegan straight edge warrior of the Animal Liberation Front.
We send this report to claim responsibility for the action of assault and fire that affected the main refrigerator of the company that distributes dismembered corpses “Susaron” and its trucks, in the commune of Quilicura on the night of the national September 18.
We located the target in advance, verify entry and exit. And no… Do not believe what the press says regarding the supposed suspects, which, apparently, leaves us as careless and unwary. Obviously we weren’t interested in meat, much less looking for monetary returns. We didn’t hit the guard either (not because we were unwilling, but because he understood he was at risk and didn’t do anything stupid). Do not be so easily deceived by chewing on any product that the television channels and their media deliver to you.
In the silent calm of an entirely stupid society, which slept exhausted after shouting and dancing with joy to the sound of the banners of its owners and modern slavers; between celebrations of people who believe that a country-company represents them and a dense stench of burned bodies throughout the environment.
On the night of September 18, armed, we took control of the central branch of the “Susaron” butcher shop. Company that has been supplying the national market for more than 45 years, selling beef, pork and poultry. Importing meat from other international markets, and having a processing plant that produces nearly 300,000 kilos of cow, pig and poultry meat every month.
Evading the security gate and electric fence, we reduced the night guard and proceeded to spray everything we could with that liquid that all those who consider themselves antispeciesists should have as their favorite product in the world; gasoline. The rest is already national news, the total loss of most of the enormous enclosure and our threatening pamphlets spread all over its surroundings.
We laugh a lot reading comments on social media about animalism or antispeciesism being inherently peaceful and civilized. Those who wrote that they believed it was a setup by the company to collect insurance made us laugh out loud. We assume that those people do not have much knowledge of the correlation between an insurance charge and the complete devastation of a critical infrastructure for a macro-company and what it means financially by this effective attack in which they lost their means of distribution and transportation, its collection and conservation center for edible carcasses, an events center and part of the sales and marketing office.
We will go to the point in our reflection on antispeciesism and its ridiculous and insane association with pacifism.
We, as an operational cell and urban guerrilla group, consider that animal exploitation is unacceptable and intolerable. We are antispeciesists above all and we have no nuances in it.
We do not care about the process of human culture, much less the conditions “of the people” to understand that subjecting an animal to a life of torture, humiliation, rape and painful death is something inconceivable. Justifying it permanently only so that in their lethargic existence they can buy from the windows that camouflage the suffering that this business drags, remains of dead bodies that apparently were just one more product, to satisfy a culinary impulse that has been scientifically proven for years that it no longer it is a biological necessity. Or to have them sadistically amuse themselves in twisted competitive practices that make no sense and definitely make it clear that they deserve a bullet to the skull or a bomb blast under their stands.
While some are disappointed because the government promised to stop the growth of fake sports that only cause pain in animals. Like the rodeo, cockfighting, and greyhound racing.
And now a couple of months after his assumption of power, the Minister of Agriculture comes out announcing a project that promotes this type of misnamed sports, shaking hands with the president of the rodeo Federation; in a desperate act to stop his deep crisis of popularity.
Animals are always suffering. While you buy your Leonardo Di Caprio plant-based burger at the supermarket or dress in the latest animalistic animal printed woodcut design, or shout out to the sterile world on social media that you are against the animal consumption industry and its derivatives; they are still there suffering. We know that we do not change the reality of the millions of animals enslaved and massacred by this sick human production chain with our actions. But we do not remain impassive and powerless and choose the path of making this normalized madness as difficult as possible with direct action.
Sabotage, fire, attacks and primarily forced animal liberation, always outside the legal canons, because the law today represents the system that considers the animals a trading good.
We will do everything we can, even if it is little, even if it costs us our lives or freedom, but we will do it to the death and with immense love and pride involved.
We will not ask animal consumption companies to stop butchering, skinning, and raping them.
We will burn them.
We will not ask the scum to stop torturing cows and horses with whippings, beatings and electricity. We’ll put bombs in their rings.
We will not speak favourably to the owners and scientists of the sinister vivisection laboratories, we will shoot them.
We will not go with banners to the farms where they reproduce and prepare the animals to be sent to the slaughterhouses. We will enter breaking everything and opening the cages, we will free them and give them shelter and whoever crosses our path will find out the hard way that we antispeciesists no longer respond to the profile of hippies, nice with patches, good vibes, good wishes for others and social networks. Rather, some of us are deeply hurt, determined, incendiary, dangerous, and armed beings.
We are against all domination; Be it a bastard policeman, a gendarme, a slaughterer, a vivisectionist, a butcher, a participant or organizer of animal races or a disgusting rider on a horse.
Each one of them could be our next target. We applaud and admire animal liberation and sabotage groups like the ALF and learned a lot from them. But unlike them, we are completely out to hurt and kill people. Because facing a system of domination, massacre and consumption of sentient beings, which has financing, thugs, weapons and government support means war and confrontation. And war is not fought with flowers, words, social media posts, or legal petitions.
We are talking about fighting such ruthless and violent people, and unfortunately for the young ladies who want to vibrate high and be at peace with their higher consciousness, the only way to stop those who use violence for such miserable purposes is to dirty their hands with same violence and becoming experts in it to use it against them.
There will be no dialogues, no agreements. There wouldn’t be dialogue with anyone who murdered or raped a family member of yours, right? Why are animals different? Why so much patience in these cases? Because it is a non-human animal? Why don’t they have a voice? Because that’s how they taught you?
Veganism-animalism-antispeciesism cannot be anything other than war of intransigent belligerence. Otherwise, it’s a game or a mask for instagram with a photo of a wild animal.
If you consider total liberation as a necessity, then stop giving only relevance to anthropocentric goals. The street fight against authority is necessary. The attack on the most obvious of the domination society; be it police, gendarmes, military, banks, government entities, multinational companies. We applaud it.
But direct action for animal liberation and its expansion is urgent and vital. If you consider it pressing like us, then make your group, organize your affinity team or act alone. Set your target no matter how small or big it is and attack. No more patience, no more waiting, no more words, no more appearance, no more waiting.
Sabotage, burn, set fire, free animals, defend them, look for places to shelter them. We can all do something for them. If necessary kill, wound.
FORWARD WARRIORS, LIBERATORS, AVENGERS AND SABS!!
GREETINGS TO THE EMILIA BAU ANTISPECIST GROUP AND ALL GROUPS ACTIVE IN VIOLENT AND CRIMINAL ANIMAL LIBERATION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
Sebastián Oversluij, Mauricio Morales, Mike Hill, Jill Phipps, and Barry Horne.
They bite into the empire of speciesist suffering alongside us and anyone who takes direct action.
ANIMAL LIBERATION BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, WITHOUT CONSIDERATION WITH WHOEVER IS IN FRONT OF YOU.
ANIMAL RESPONSE GROUP”
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