Unoffensive Animal

28th July, Italy.

via: Frente de Liberacion Animal

ENG:
“A hunting dog training facility was the subject of a sabotage in Veneto, Italy.”

SPA:
“Un área de entrenamiento de perros de caza fue objetivo de un sabotaje en Veneto,Italia.”

29th July, Italy.

via: Frente de Liberacion Animal

ENG:

“The ALF destroys a larsen trap and releases a magpie in Italy.

A second trap was also destroyed and it will not be the last because we are everywhere. We have run out of patience, the traps are just the begining. “

SPA:

«EL Frente de Liberación Animal destruye una trampa larsen y libera una urraca en Italia.

Otra jaula fue destruida, y no será la última, porque estamos en todas partes. La paciencia tiene un límite, las jaulas son solo el aperitivo.»

ITA:

«ALF distrutta gabbia larsen e liberata gazza.
Un’ altra gabbia distrutta, e non sarà l’ ultima, perchè siamo ovunque. La pazienza ha un limite, le gabbie sono solo l’ antipasto.»

28th July, South East UK

received anonymously via email:

“Pure nosiness took us to the office of a dairy farm at 2am. In complete darkness, with the wind howling and music still eerily playing from the radio, we rummaged our way through their cupboards to our hearts’ content. Among the Ready Brek and cow-themed calendars from years gone by, a few items peaked our interest. We chucked them in a bucket and took them with us, including the keys to their tractors. Sometimes we act in rage, sometimes in sheer pettiness. Just another idea of how to fill any sleepless nights.”

27th July, Midlands UK.

received anonymously via email:

“As we walked up to a shed filled with 50,000 innocent lives, there were blue lights behind us and a newer, loud fan system on the shed. It was noisy and tense. We hung back to make sure all was clear and the blue lights continued past us.

We had to crawl under 3m of floor boards into the unknown before standing up surrounded by tens of thousands of hens who deserved to be free. We had limited capacity but we managed to squeeze a few extras in.

That is 33 lives saved. Every one of them an individual who wants freedom, happiness and a good life. Not one of exploitation.

We hope this encourages more people to get active and go save lives! Get down to MBR Beagles. THEY WILL BE SAVED!

In solidarity.”

19th June, Italy.

via: directaction.info

EDITOR’S NOTE:

ARVAIA is a agricultural cooperative operating in Bologna. They greenwash their actions by creating aliances with activist groups whilst catching wildlife to be released in hunting grounds. On the night of the 19th of June, ALF activists visited the farm and caused around 5.000EUR worth of damage.

ARVAIA published an extensive communiquee related to the action that you can read on the link below. Nevertheless, we believe it would be important to underline a specific paragraph on their press release. Please note the adamant mention of violence against zuccini;
“ALF’s violence has affected potato and bean crops, zucchini plants, melons, strawberries, but also greenhouse covers and irrigation.”

Read their whole comuniquee here:

Aware of the response that ecological groups were showing against the ALF action, anonymous activists sent the report below:

received anonymously:

“With reference to the sabotage that took place at the ARVAIA COOPERATIVE in Bologna, A.L.F. claims the action.

ARVAIA, contrary to what it declared through the media:

• Regularly requires hares trapping and birds shooting, guilty of damaging crops;
• Advertise captures as cruelty free interventions, when the high mortality rate of hares is demonstrated even many hours after capture due to shock or to difficulties in acclimatization. Permanent injuries (disabilities) are also frequent;
• Omits to report that hares, captured by hunting guards (hunters), are deported to hunting areas and made object of hunting;
• Invites the members with misleading confidential communications to participate in the capture activities without declaring their real intent, reporting to the Arvaia members that the purpose is only to move them in the adjacent fields;
• Refused, while reporting the opposite, the proposals of associations regarding the installation of passive crop protection, citing economic reasons;
• They recently organized a capture of hares in the period of suckling, with cubs in the den. The activity was interrupted only thanks to the intervention of local volunteers.
• ARVAIA does not kill directly, but it is responsible for the death of hares and birds when asking the hunters to protect their crops.
• ARVAIA communicates falsehoods through the media to drive consensus and maintain an aura of green and zero-kilometers”

Italian:

“Con riferimento al sabotaggio avvenuto presso la COOPERATIVA ARVAIA in Bologna, A.L.F. rivendica l’azione.
ARVAIA, al contrario di quanto dichiarato dalla stessa attraverso i media:

• Richiede regolarmente interventi di cattura lepri e di tiro ai volatili, animali rei di danneggiare le coltivazioni;
• Pubblicizza come interventi non cruenti le catture, quando è dimostrato l’elevato tasso di mortalità delle lepri anche molte ore dopo la cattura per lo shock o le difficoltà di ambientamento. Frequenti anche le lesioni permanenti (disabilità);
• Omette di riferire che le lepri, catturate ad opera di guardie venatorie (cacciatori), vengano deportate in zone venatorie e fatte oggetto di caccia;
• Invita i soci con comunicazioni riservate fuorvianti a partecipare alle attività di cattura senza dichiarare in via preliminare il proprio reale intento, riferendo ai soci che la finalità sia solo quella di allontanarle nei campi attigui;
• Ha rifiutato, pur riferendo il contrario, le proposte di associazioni circa l’installazione di protezioni passive dei raccolti, adducendo motivi economici;
• Ha organizzato recentemente una cattura lepri in periodo di allattamento, con cuccioli in tana. L’attività è stata interrotta solo grazie all’intervento di volontari locali.
  ARVAIA non uccide direttamente, ma fa uccidere scientemente lepri e uccelli per proteggere i propri raccolti, dissimulando la realtà nella comunicazione ai soci e al pubblico per pilotare il consenso e mantenere un’aura green e km0.”

17th July, England.

received anonymously via encrypted email:

“In January we read an ALF report about a salamander liberation at a UK pet breeder who was selling animals to vivisection laboratories and it peaked our interest.

By chance we stumbled upon an animal delivery at a local Pets At Home. Sticky fingers helped us collect an invoice from the front of the delivery van whilst they were unloading into the store and we found the address of a breeder.

We did some research; the breeder we had found was the biggest Pets At Home supplier in the country, delivering all across England. Surprisingly, that was not the only thing we found. Thanks to a handy list of historical ALF raids against vivisection we learnt that the breeder had already been visited by the ALF during the 80s and 90s, where they liberated hamsters, mice and rats.

It seems that the pet industry has a dirty little vivisection secret. They are not supplying labs that need sterile environment animals, but pet breeders are obviously being used as a cheap resource for uni labs and experiments that do not require toxicology or pharmaceutical handling.

We raided their guinea pig breeding operation. With the amount of pregnant females, we estimate the number of liberated animals to be 400+. They will see nothing but freedom. They will not be a thing people can buy at a Pets at Home, or a test subject to be tortured and then discarded in the name of ‘experimentation’.

Now that we know what they are up to, they should expect us to target them relentlessly. We do not give up.

We want to send our solidarity to the beagles inside MBR Acres, to Camp Beagle and to Free the MBR Beagles campaign. Turns out MBR has a side hustle in the pet industry too! Together we can shut them down and they should fear the escalation that will come.

FUCK VIVISECTION.

ALF”

14th July, Quebec Canada.

received anonymously via email:

“One hunter’s treestand has been taken down in the forest, near a river, somewhere in Quebec, Canada

Good luck climbing back with your broken ladder, asshole
xx”