reported by Animal Freedom Aotearoa:

"This World Farm Animal Day (October 2nd 2010) we rescued five young goats from a zero graze dairy goat farm. Inspiration for this rescue came earlier in the year when we were investigating two Waikato farms with sheds full of pregnant goats around the time that the goat Code of Welfare was released for public consultation.

No amount of regulation is going to save these goats from being made pregnant every year only to have THEIR babies stolen and sent to slaughter. Regulation is not going to stop them being milked most days for five years before being sent to slaughter themselves. Regulation is only ever going to perpetuate their existence as milk machines for human profit.

These lucky young girls will never know the pain of their mothers; instead they have a long life ahead of them full of love, excitement, browsing trees, climbing and plenty of other cheeky goat activities.

For love and liberation
Animal Freedom Aotearoa
For pics from our rescue click here.

For images and details of our mini-investigation click here."

According to media reports, power was cut and machinery damaged at Edgeworth Knackery, a slaughterhouse near Newcastle (NSW), during the night of July 8. 50+ Brumbies (wild horses), removed from a national park, had been sent to the slaughterhouse earlier in the week.

The saboteurs claimed to have contaminated the horse's water supply with phenylbutazone, an analgesic that is commonly used in horses. A warning was painted at the slaughterhouse: "These horse have been contaminated ... a 28-day withholding period before slaughter is required ... if slaughtered we will publicise that your slaughter house ... is selling contaminated horse meat."

(photo: Macarthur Chronicle/Camden Edition)

reported by Animal Freedom Aotearoa (more images from the rescue here):

"Over the last month we have been on a couple of rescue missions to broiler and battery hen farms in South Auckland. We rescued four broilers from a farm just days before they were due to be killed. When we entered the shed the broilers, about six weeks of age, were wing to wing throughout the shed with little room to move about. The absence of cages does not prevent their movement being restricted in these conditions. Fortunately for the four who we rescued they will never have to suffer such confinement again. They are now free to play in the grass and enjoy the sun!

We also rescued and re-homed 14 battery hens. On our first trip to the farm one of our rescuers spoke of a hen who watched her every movement through a hole in the shed wall. When we returned last week she was there in the same position watching us through the same hole, as if waiting for us to come and take her some place better. It was our privilege to do this for her and she will now spend her days outside with her other chicken friends dust bathing, pecking and doing what ever else takes her fancy :)

This action is dedicated to the ALF and open rescue groups through out the world risking their own freedom to give animals theirs.

Much love and respect. Animal Freedom Aotearoa."

New Zealand Open Rescue news release (click here to watch a video about the campaign against pig factory farming in New Zealand; the video includes footage from pig farms in the country and the recent rescue of two piglets):

The Open Rescue team has saved two piglets from a typical New Zealand pig farm. These piglets will now never have to endure the legalised confinement and deprivation that their mothers still endure. They will never feel the restriction of metal bars or be treated like production machines.

Instead they are now free to run through the grass, to play in hay and to dig in the earth - expressing all the natural behaviours that are denied to hundreds of thousands of pigs imprisoned on factory farms across New Zealand.

Open Rescuer John Darroch describes his part in the rescue: 'Here were beautiful intelligent animals destined to a life of misery and suffering. I had seen the conditions these pigs would have been kept in and knew I had to do something to help them".

'For these two animals our rescue means the difference between a life of misery and a meaningful existence. I'm sure I will carry many of the things I saw for the rest of my life' says John.

NZ Open Rescue has saved several piglets from intensive pig farms over the last few years starting with a Mother's Day rescue in 2008. We will continue to save animals from these 'farms', which are more like living nightmares, as long as legislation continues to fail these beautiful and intelligent creatures.

Animal Freedom Aotearoa news release:

"New national grassroots group Animal Freedom Aotearoa carried out the open
rescue of 111 layer hens from a factory farm near Auckland. This action marked the start of our group and the beginning of a campaign to take on the entire egg industry; including free range and barn raised production systems.

The shed that we entered housed several thousand hens in conditions typical of battery hen farms; about ten hens were crammed into small cages with little room to move about, their beaks had been trimmed and many had lost feathers from their necks, chest and back.

The hens that we rescued have been taken to a new home where they can recover from life as a layer hen and start to enjoy the life a hen should lead; dust bathing, running, flapping their wings and building nests.

Today we followed up on this rescue with a demonstration at the offices of the Egg Producers Federation in Newmarket.

Open rescues and demonstrations are just two tactics of many that will be used to form our Egg Free Aotearoa campaign.

For pictures from the rescue please click here.

For pictures from the demonstration please click here."

anonymous report:

"On Monday the 25th of January, the ALF painted 'Burn the Slaughterhouse' and 'Animal Liberation' on the walls of a meat exporter in the north of Melbourne."

received anonymously:

"This week we rescued a young lamb and goat from a paddock outside a South Auckland slaughterhouse. This action was taken so that they can live out their natural lives free from suffering.

Until all are free; we will not rest.

ALF"

reported anonymously:

"In celebration of World Vegan Day we glued the locks of over a dozen Auckland businesses involved with meat production including Halal butcheries, a bait shop, fish stores and a kebab meat truck.

Animals are not ours to use for food.

Meat is murder

Viva ALF!"

received anonymously:

"A series of meat and poultry wholesalers were graffitied in an industrial area in Melbourne, Australia.
They were painted with slogans including 'Animals are not machines', 'Factory farms are a living hell', 'Animal Liberation' and 'Meat Stinks'.

They were signed A.L.F."

anonymous report:
"On Sunday the 12th of July, the ALF continued their harassment of Ralph's Meat Exporters in South Melbourne by gluing the locks and covering the building in paint, including 'Factory Farms are a living Hell' and 'ALF'."

anonymous report:

"On the morning of Wednesday the 8th of May, Ralph's meat exporters in Melbourne, Australia were again targeted for profiting from the death and suffering of countless animals. Locks were glued and the walls were painted, signed 'A.L.F'."

April 13, 2009 -- Five Rabbits Rescued

Activists from the organization Animal Liberation removed five rabbits from cages at a farm in southeastern New South Wales. The rabbits were facing cruel slaughter (decapitation by circular saw while fully conscious).

April 9, 2009 -- Prison Walls of Zoo Covered With Slogans

received anonymously:

"On the night of Sunday the 5th of April, the A.L.F covered the
prison walls of the Melbourne Zoo with slogans such as 'Animals are
not your for entertainment', 'Keep the animals in the wild' and
'Animal Liberation Now!'."

April 8, 2009 -- Locks Glued at Meat Company

anonymous report:

"On Sunday the 5th of April, locks were glued at the Melbourne head
office of Ralph's Meat Exporters. The building was covered with
Animal Liberation slogans and A.L.F was painted on the windows."

January 16, 2009 -- Circus Tent Slashed, Vehicles Sabotaged

According to media reports, the Loritz Circus was targeted during a stop in Christchurch. Early on January 11, messages were painted on the sides of an elephant trailer, the circus tent was slashed, paint was splashed over vehicles and poured into the circus' diesel tanks. The circus reported several thousand dollars in damages.