anonymous communique:

"In 2006 in Austria, a total of over 800,000 animals, of which 250,000 were deer, 125,000 rabbits, 46,800 foxes and over 120,000 birds were shot! In the same year 120,000 hunting licenses were issued!

- Weidwerk, Austria's largest hunting magazine
- Österreichischer Jagd- und Fischerei-Verlag (publisher of hunting books)
- NÖ Landesjagdverband (lower Austria hunting association)
all quartered at Wickenburggasse 3 in 1080 Vienna
were in the 17th calendar week attacked with butyric acid (magazine, office and sales room)

Hunting is war against animals

A large number of the animals killed in the forest and fields are unplanned (including pets), but the planned killings of wild animals also mean incredible fear and pain! It rarely happens that an animal dies immediately. The rest are killed by the hunter after being found or succumb slowly to their painful injuries.
The animals who successfully escape the hunters lust for murder experience trauma and broken families.

Hunting is not conservation

Hunting is a grave encroachment on nature:
-- Feeding to have more animals to shoot
-- Manipulation of natural habitats to make room for 'huntable' species
-- The introduction of non-native species for easy hunting, for example, pheasants
-- Tons of lead from bullets

That is why we say:

No peace with animal killers!
For the animals!

Animal Liberation Front - Vienna / Lower Austria"

German:
"ANSCHLAGSERKLÄRUNG

2006 gab es in Österreich insgesamt über 800.000 Abschüsse, davon 250.000 Rehe, 125.000 Hasen, 46.800 Füchse und über 120.000 Vögel! Im selben Jahr wurden 120.000 Jagdscheine ausgestellt!

weidwerk, Österreichs auflagenstärkstes Jagdmagazin
Österreichischer Jagd- und Fischerei-Verlag
NÖ Landesjagdverband
allesamt einquartiert in der Wickenburggasse 3 in 1080 Wien
waren in der 17. Kalenderwoche Ziel eines Buttersäueranschlags(Magazin, Büro und Verkaufsraum)

Jagd ist Krieg gegen Tiere

Eine große Zahl der Tiermorde im Wald und Feld sind ungeplant (Haustiere ua) aber auch die geplanten Tötungen bedeuten für die wildtiere Angst und unglaubliche Schmerzen! Es passiert selten, dass ein getroffenes Tier sofort stirbt. Die übrigen werden von der Jägerhand getötet oder gar nicht gefunden und erliegen langsam ihren qualvollen Verletzungen durch Jagdschrot.
Die Tiere, denen es gelingt den mordlüsternen Jägern zu entkommen erleben Traumata und haben zerissene Familienverbände.

Jagd ist kein Naturschutz

Jägerische \'Hege und Biotoppflege\' ist ein gravierender Eingriff in die Natur:
- Fütterung, teilweise mit präventiven Medikamenten versetzt, um noch mehr Tiere zum Abschießen zu haben,
- Manipulation natürlicher Lebensräume, um Platz für \"jagdbare\" Tierarten zu schaffen,
- das Aussetzen von eigentlich hier nicht heimischer Tierarten als leichte Jagdbeute, zum Beispiel Fasane,
- Tonnen von Blei aus Schrotpatronen, ...

Deswegen sagen wir:

Kein Friede mit Tiermördern!
Für die Tiere!

Animal Liberation Front- Sektion Wien/Niederösterreich"

According to the media, a fur shop in Vienna was targeted with red paint.

reported by activists in Austria:

"During the night to 19th April, activists liberated 15 chickens from a barn egg farm."

April 14, 2008 -- 200 Pigs Released from Factory Farm

anonymous communique:

"Angry wild boars liberate their relatives

In the night to Monday, March 31st, a cell of the ALF called 'angry wild boar' liberated 200 genetically, degeneratively altered relatives (called domestic pigs) from a catastrophical factory farm between Brunn and Winzersdorf in the district of Wr. Neustadt, Lower Austria. The liberated pigs immediately started playing in the meadows surrounding the farm and ate grass, which they will be prohibited to do in the months ahead, sitting without anything to do in their dreadfully stinking shit. . . .

Around the farm are kilometres of open land and pasture; why is this way of keeping pigs not prohibited? Most people just remove the suffering from their consciousness and still buy and sell these products. But there are healthy and tasty plant based alternatives not only in specialist shops but in all supermarkets - from meat and different sausages to schnitzel, chili con soya or doener.

Even if those liberated pigs cannot enjoy their freedom for long - every hour counts; since in only a few weeks, they would be brutally kicked into lorries, transported over long distances and killed hanging on their hind legs on the slaughter line, when somebody cuts their throat while they are still fully conscious. They struggle for minutes. Humans with a brain and a heart do not eat animals - especially when they are so similar to themselves, that their organs are being misused by unscrupolous doctors for transplants.
More information on pigs or healthy nutrituion: www.vgt.at, www.peta.at, www.vegan.at oder www.tierrechtsfilme.at

Freedom for pigs!
The angry wild boars"

February 24, 2008 -- Hunting Platforms Cut

reported by activists in Austria:

"On Saturday, media reported that 3 hunting platforms were cut in Salzburg."

January 27, 2008 -- Hunting Platforms Cut

reported by activists in Austria:

"On 23rd January, six hunting platforms were cut in the district of Jennersdorf in the Burgenland in eastern Austria."

January 21, 2008 -- Glaxo Ignores Contamination: Customers at Risk

received anonymously:

"Austria

NEW: GlaxoSmithKline's toothpaste 'Superglue'

Letters containing a tube of toothpaste were sent to the

* Federal Ministry for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection (Bundesministerium für Soziales und Konsumentenschutz)
* Food Analysis Laboratory of the City of Vienna (Lebensmitteluntersuchungsanstalt der Stadt Wien)

to be received on Jan. 9, 2008.

The letters claimed that products of the brands Odol, Parodontax, Dr. Best and Sensodyne had been contaminated with glue and were put in store shelves in several towns in Austria. The toothpaste sent to the laboratory and the ministry was contaminated with superglue (Loctite).

Odol, Parodontax, Dr. Best and Sensodyne are products of GlaxoSmithKline, GSK.

- Then happened NOTHING

no warning of consumers
no media reports
no controls

The supermarkets and drugstores sold all relevant products without interruption.

- What does it take to go on selling possibly contaminated products without hesitation?

A. A nitwit as Minister for Consumer Protection
B. A greedy, ruthless and potentially murderous company like GSK
C. Non-existent national compensation laws to protect consumers

- Open invitation for corporate criminals

All corporate criminals are invited to produce in or export products from Austria regardless of the toxicity. Obviously there are no controls here, but open borders to the countries of the European Union.

GlaxoSmithKline already had its field trial and as it was to be expected, they took the chance. No controls, no media, no laws. Go ahead. Sell what you have, contaminated or not.

- Lessons for activists

There are countries where you actually have to face the horrifying potential of hurting or killing someone. Austria is not the USA, UK or recently France. In those countries regulations guarantee that consumers are protected in cases of potential threats to their health.

A similar action against a candy bar manufacturer took place in Canada Jan. 2, 1992. Cold Buster bars were said to be poisoned with oven cleaning fluid and returned to the store shelves for public consumption. Communiques and samples of contaminated bars were sent to TV stations and newspapers. There was an estimated more than $1 million cost to the manufacturer of this candy just from recalling the candy.

- Will products from GSK ever be save?

Take some Loctite, smear it on your toothbrush, clean your teeth with that and see what your dentist thinks about this. If you still go to a shop and buy Odol, Parodontax, Dr. Best or Sensodyne, then you will never learn.

- Further questions?

In case you have further questions, there is a day and night hotline available. The director of GSK in Austria will certainly help you with problems concerning products from GSK; or send him a superglued toothbrush requesting informations about methods of safe application.

Dr. Eduardo Castro de Pinte Leite
Dreimarksteingasse 6
1190 Wien
Phone: (01) 890 00 45
e-Mail: eduardo.l.pinto-leite@gsk.com

or contact GSK Austria
Phone: +43 (1) 970 750
Fax: +43 (1) 970 75 170
Fax: +43 (1) 97075 197
e-Mail: at.info@gsk.com

If you are calling from outside of Austria, dial 0043 1 890 00 45. Callers from overseas should keep in mind that the time-lag may result in a disturbing ringing of the phone in the small hours of the night in Austria when there is broad daylight at your location.

Animal Rights Militia"

January 9, 2008 - Another Smelly Kleider Bauer Store

According to the website of Die Tierbefreier e.V., the ALF dumped butyric acid inside a Kleider Bauer store in Vienna on January 7 or 8. During the past month, there have been two butyric acid attacks against Kleider Bauer and related stores, and two shops got their windows etched. The activists promise to continue the actions until Kleider Bauer goes fur-free.

German communique:
"letzte nacht haben wir KLEIDER BAUER in der meidlinger hauptstr 19 mit buttersaeure heimgesucht damit wollen wir auf das tausendfache grauen der pelztiere aufmerksam zu machen

KLEIDER BAUER wie lange bleibt ihr noch uneinsichtig?

die animal liberation front wird ihre aktionen fortsetzen bis KLEIDER
BAUER auf den verkauf von pelzen verzichtet

eine zelle der ALF"