Liberate

Our troops in both Open Rescue and the ALF have been busy the last 6 months exposing the conditions on poultry and pig factory farms throughout Aotearoa and placing just over 300 abused animals in loving homes.

13th October ’07:
37 Pullets Rescued

This action saw the emergence of Christchurch Open Rescue and the rescue of 37 pullets destined for a miserable life as an egg machine on a battery hen farm.

“The chickens are now having dirt baths, eating fresh greenery and will soon be laying eggs for the first time, free from the battery farm conditions, where they struggled to even have enough space to turn around” said Rebecca McCready, Christchurch Open Rescue member.

For footage from the rescue visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDJlWNF1gPQ

5th November ’07:
Liberation dedicated to Barry Horne

Six battery hens rescued as part of an Open Rescue investigation into an Auckland battery hen farm.

17th November ’07:
Animal Liberation Front Rescue Ducks from Factory Farm Misery

The communique from the ALF stated ‘30 beautiful ducks have been rescued and are now free to spend the rest of their natural life playing in the water, where they belong.

Sadly the thousands we left behind will have long been murdered, packaged and shipped off to be consumed. Like other factory farmed animals, ducks are not treated as thinking, feeling beings, but as commodities to be turned into profit.’

Footage from this investigation detailed a slaughterhouse worker punching a duck in the head. This was referred on the Auckland SPCA and the worker was charged with offenses under the Animal Welfare Act.

A documentary detailing the life of ducks on a factory farm was produced this can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GCoZt4VIAo (part one) and
http://www.youtube.com/tch?v=9GgQBN44xAk (part two).

Early December ’07:
Pullets Rescued

The Animal Rights Activists liberated

25 pullets from a Northland Farms part of an investigation into Battery Hen Farming.

23 December ’07:
Santa’s Little Helpers visit Emaciated Hens

Open Rescue members, coined Santa’s little helpers, rescued 15 emaciated caged birds from an Auckland egg factory.

The group released a Christmas DVD appealing to New Zealanders boycott battery eggs for 2008; this can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wgRCKIrfKk

New Years Eve:
Animal Rights Activists visit Battery Hen Farm

On New Years Eve while many were partying Animal Rights Activists were seeing in the New Year by entering a battery hen farm in South Auckland. Thirty hens were rescued from this farm and the conditions documented.

Footage of this and other raids was complied as a documentary ‘The True Cost of Eggs’. This can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sd4ikC-tBI

17 January ’08:
Open Rescue Solidarity Rescue

Christchurch Open Rescue has announced the rescue of 31 hens from a farm south of Chirstchurch.

“The action was carried out in solidarity with Mark Eden, an Open Rescue member in Wellington who is currently facing charges for his role in a rescue at a Foxton farm,” the group said in a statement. “The birds have all been provided with new homes where they can live out their lives free to exhibit their natural behaviours.”

Mid – February ’08:
Strawberry Saved From Slaughter

ALF liberate piglet, nicknamed Stawberry, from factory farm.

For footage visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psVUHhr-_yg

Early March ‘08:
ALF Liberate 130 Hens and dedicate to Suzanne Carey

The ALF liberated 40 battery hens from a convicted Animal Abuser in South Auckland.

Later that week they also entered a pullet farm in South Auckland liberate 90 young pullets complete with fluffy yellow heads.

The ALF dedicated this action to Suzanne Carey who passed away in late February.