Category: Animal Rights/Liberation

14th Novem­ber One week after announc­ing the clo­sure of its lab­o­ra­to­ry in São Roque, the Insti­tu­to Roy­al was raid­ed again. In the ear­ly hours of Novem­ber 13, a group of masked activists stormed the com­plex, forced open doors and removed more than 300 rats and mice who still remained inside the lab. Accord­ing to police, three secu­ri­ty guards were tied up dur­ing the raid (one guard was tied up with laces from his boots).

Expen­sive micro­scopes, com­put­ers and oth­er research equip­ment was destroyed. Three cars and a motor­cy­cle parked on site were also van­dal­ized. “We regret that activists have again resort­ed to riot,” the insti­tute said in a state­ment.

 

28th Octo­ber As report­ed a lit­tle over a week ago that 200 bea­gles were lib­er­at­ed from a lab in Brazil. This action was unique in that the ani­mals were freed by dozens of activists who stormed the build­ing after a protest, and did not cov­er their faces to hide their iden­ti­ties.

Today, more pho­tos of the action were released by Will Pot­ter from Green is the New Red. The lab is call­ing this open res­cue an act of ter­ror­ism. Pot­ter asks, “Does this look like ter­ror­ism to you?”

 

 

See the rest of the pho­tos and read Will Potter’s arti­cle here.

19th Octo­ber “An anti-vivi­sec­tion protest out­side the Roy­al Insti­tute in the city of São Roque began with a few dozen peo­ple on Thurs­day, Octo­ber 17 and dur­ing the night grew to at least 100 peo­ple. At 2:00 ear­ly Fri­day morn­ing, activists stormed the com­plex and went straight for the ken­nels. As many as 200 dogs were res­cued.”

 

30 July 2013 River­side, CA: In a com­mu­nique received by the North Amer­i­can Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Press Office, the Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front has tak­en cred­it for lib­er­at­ing cap­tive pheas­ants from four out of six pens at a River­side, Cal­i­for­nia farm on July 22nd. Accord­ing to doc­u­ments post­ed at the Wildlife Farm Data­base (“Direc­to­ry of cap­tive wildlife oper­a­tions for activists”), the Ash Grove pheas­ant farm is one of just over 60 farms in Cal­i­for­nia that breed “game birds,” includ­ing quail and partridges.The birds are slaugh­tered for sale as meat, or sold to cap­tive hunt­ing facil­i­ties to be shot at close range by so-called hunters.

This is the third raid of a pheas­ant farm in the last 18 months. In March 2012, the Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front released 70 to 100 birds from a farm in Ore­gon. Sev­er­al months lat­er, the ALF released “dozens” of pheas­ants from anoth­er Ore­gon farm.

The com­mu­nique reads, in full:

On the night of July 22, the masked res­cuers of the Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front entered the Ash Grove Pheas­ant Farm at 10540 Vic­to­ria Avenue in River­side, Cal­i­for­nia. As the farmer slept just feet away, the fenc­ing was torn open with wire cut­ters. Four of the six pens on the prop­er­ty were breached, giv­ing these beau­ti­ful beings a chance at free­dom.

 

Wildlife farms are every­where. Their vic­tims can be imme­di­ate­ly released, with no rehom­ing nec­es­sary. This life sav­ing action took no spe­cial­ized skill, less than twen­ty-four hours of plan­ning, and fifty dol­lars. With basic tools and deter­mi­na­tion, any­one is capa­ble of destroy­ing the bar­ri­er that stands between an ani­mal and their free­doms.

Stop frat­er­niz­ing about it. Stop fan­ta­siz­ing about it. Stop fright­en­ing your­self out of it. You know you want to – just do it. Wild non-humyns await their release from pris­ons in your neigh­bor­hoods.

‘For only a fool would cling to this world as it is,’   A.L.F

The Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front uti­lizes eco­nom­ic sab­o­tage in addi­tion to the direct lib­er­a­tion of ani­mals from con­di­tions of abuse and impris­on­ment to halt need­less ani­mal suf­fer­ing. By mak­ing it more expen­sive to trade in the lives of inno­cent, sen­tient beings, the ALF main­tain the atroc­i­ties against our broth­ers and sis­ters are like­ly to occur in small­er num­bers; their goal is to abol­ish the exploita­tion, impris­on­ment, tor­ture and killing of inno­cent, non-human ani­mals.

The Amer­i­can Mink is native to North Amer­i­ca, and can sur­vive in the wild after release from cap­tiv­i­ty

“On the evening of July 28, 2013, friends of wildlife entered the Bur­ley, Ida­ho, mink farm of Fur Com­mis­sion USA Board Mem­ber Cindy Moyle, com­pro­mised the perime­ter fenc­ing, and set up rov­ing sur­veil­lance of the on-site night watch­man. We then lib­er­at­ed the entire­ty of her breed­ing stock into the wild, emp­ty­ing over twen­ty-five per­cent of this wildlife prison.

Illu­mi­nat­ed in the moon­light, 2400 of these wild crea­tures climbed out of the cages where they had passed their entire lives in iso­lat­ed dark­ness, to feel the grass under their feet for the first time. Their ini­tial timid­i­ty quick­ly became a cacoph­o­ny of glee­ful squeal­ing, play­ing, cavort­ing, and swim­ming in the creek that runs direct­ly behind the Moyle prop­er­ty. They will live out their new lives along the Snake Riv­er water­shed.

 

Cindy Moyle is a cur­rent Board Mem­ber, and for­mer Trea­sur­er, of the Fur Com­mis­sion USA. After the recent lead­er­ship shuf­fling in FCUSA, we felt that the Moyle Mink Ranch would be per­fect to test out the effi­ca­cy of FCUSA’s new empha­sis on farm security.The Moyles are a mink dynasty in Ida­ho, oper­at­ing up to eight farms, their own in-house feed oper­a­tion, and a tan­nery. Those doubt­ful of our resource­ful­ness and guile have in the past called the Moyle farms impen­e­tra­ble. Indeed, this is the first time that any­one has attempt­ed action against one of them.

Hav­ing now had the plea­sure of test­ing them our­selves, we whole­heart­ed­ly approve of the new FCUSA secu­ri­ty guide­lines. We are hap­py to see FCUSA mem­bers increas­ing their over­head on secu­ri­ty – it means they are only that much clos­er to bank­rupt­cy when we raid their farms. In the case of the Moyles, the breed­ing records we destroyed rep­re­sent over thir­ty years of painstak­ing genet­ic selec­tion. There will be no recov­er­ing these genet­ic lines.

Aside from their oper­a­tions harm­ing help­less ani­mals, the Moyles have also been fed­er­al­ly inves­ti­gat­ed for exploit­ing undoc­u­ment­ed work­ers and traf­fick­ing endan­gered species. Mike Moyle, ex-mink farmer and the cur­rent Ida­ho House Major­i­ty Leader, has used his polit­i­cal posi­tion to block Ida­ho neigh­bor­hoods from being able to declare his family’s foul and fly- infest­ed pris­ons to be pub­lic nui­sances.

The fur indus­try will no doubt prop­a­gate false­hoods regard­ing this act of kind­ness.

They will claim that we are ter­ror­ists. We say that if peace­ful­ly open­ing cages is an act of ter­ror­ism, then the word has no mean­ing. It is appro­pri­ate­ly applied to the mass impris­on­ment and killing of wild ani­mals.

They will claim that these mink are domes­ti­cat­ed ani­mals and will starve. Doc­u­men­ta­tion on the suc­cess of farm-bred mink in the wild is exten­sive, so we will add only our expe­ri­ence watch­ing these nat­u­ral­ly aquat­ic ani­mals, who had spent their entire lives in cages, head instinc­tive­ly for water and begin to swim and hunt.

They will claim that con­di­tions on mink farms are humane. We ask why, then, they try only to hide those farms from the pub­lic, push­ing for leg­is­la­tion to crim­i­nal­ize the tak­ing of pho­tographs. The mink that we freed from the Moyles lived in inten­sive con­fine­ment in their own waste. Their suf­fer­ing was plain to the eye, and their yearn­ing for free­dom plain to the soul.

They will say that our raid may inspire copy­cat actions. We say that it undoubt­ed­ly will. It is a glo­ri­ous thing that we live in a world where indi­vid­u­als reg­u­lar­ly demon­strate the ulti­mate act of com­pas­sion – risk­ing their free­dom for the free­dom of oth­ers.

They will say that we will not stop short of the com­plete and total end of the killing of ani­mals for their fur. On this point we are in total agree­ment.

We act with love in our hearts.”