1000+ Italian Activists Liberate Beagle Puppies in Daylight Raid

[Luminous Animal]

http://vegetarianmythmyth.wordpress.com/tag/marshall-farms/

On April 28th, World Day for Animals in Laboratories, Italian animal liberation activists staged a daylight raid of the Green Hill Breeders complex in Northern Italy, freeing 25 to 40 beagles in the process. All but one of the dogs are puppies. Green Hill, owned by Marshall Farms Inc., is one of the largest European breeding facilities for nonhuman animals bred for vivisection. Green Hill, which sells “purpose bred” dogs for up to $1,200, keeps 2,500 dogs on site at any given time and harbors ambitions of expanding its facilities to contain 5,000. Green Hill breeds dogs to order for customers like Huntingdon Life Sciences, who can pay for extra “features,” like dogs with their vocal chords removed so they cannot scream when experimented upon.

Since the closing of Italy’s other laboratory dog breeding facility, Italian activists have gone hard after Green Hill. The campaign has employed a diverse array of tactics, ranging from letter writing and petitions to legal challenges and public demonstrations. Daylight raids like the one that occurred on Saturday are not in themselves unprecedented, but the sheer size of this one is a definite first. On the heels of this action, hackers acting under the umbrella of Anonymous have begun to take down and subvert websites owned by companies “who derive profit from the blood and the suffering of animals,” using the hashtags #OpItaly, #OpSaveAnimals and #OpGreenRights.

See video here....
http://video.corriere.it/blitz-canile-liberazione-beagle/69e39b50-9157-11e1-9c63-0823a340624b

[Lawlbringer]

1. "...bred for vivisection." This threw me into a rage

and I feel (strongly) that I must vivisect someone running that place...


My words fail me at how angry and sad I am.

[get the red out]

3. +1

I am right there with you. Make sure to remove the owners vocal cords so they cannot scream when experimented on though, as they did with the dogs.

I am so grateful for the people who rescued these poor dogs.

[LiberalEsto]

7. +1000

This makes me sick.
What the hell is WRONG with these sick sadists who torture animals?

[silverweb]

2. Good for them!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]That took substantial planning, coordination, and guts.

The cold-blooded mistreatment of these poor animals is unforgiveable, and companies that breed them and experiment on them should be brought to their knees.

[xchrom]

4. ...

[EFerrari]

5. Site

http://www.marshallbioresources.com/


"Bioresources"? Scumbags.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. k&r

[flvegan]

8. Scaling the fence, open rescue

Love these folks, though many will see them as terrorists. That's what they'd be in this backwards country run by idiots.

They nailed #1 and 4:

1. To liberate animals from places of abuse, i.e. fur farms, laboratories, factory farms, etc. and place them in good homes where they may live out their natural lives free from suffering.

4. To take all necessary precautions against hurting any animal, human and non-human.

Well done, folks.