Argentina: Animals Liberated, Testing Center Torched

from Argentina Indymedia

translated by Earth First! Journal [Note: We missed news of this action back in January but are stoked to share it now, months later.]

[VIDEO CAPTIONS, from January 8, 2016, Argentina]

The animals used for the past 300 years in research institutions are usually healthy animals coming from vivariums, which are places inside the research centers that raise the animals. In some cases the animals come from zoos. (Vivarium: a physical place where “lab animals” are raised, kept, and used.)

The National University of La Plata deals with hundreds of animals each day for educational and investigative means. These animals are turned into objects for human use, denied of freedom, tortured, and murdered.

Recently, we decided to stop this unjust situation and liberate some oppressed beings: Animal Liberation from the UNLP vivarium.

26 cats

10 guinea pigs

15 rats

All regained their freedom.

Two vivariums were left demolished by fire.

This is not an isolated act. We will continue until they realize that every action has a consequence. WE WILL NOT STOP UNTIL THE EXPLOITATION STOPS.

Fighting for freedom is everyone’s responsibility.

[WRITTEN COMMUNIQUE]

Progress and science have declared themselves as enemy to nature and freedom, managed by those who have power and wish to keep it no matter what; a fundamental part of its development is the separation of humans from the rest of nature, and one of the ways they develop this is through jailing and using animals.

We have decided to start a ferocious campaign against animal experimentation, particularly that of the University of La Plata, where they test on cats, guinea pigs, and other animals.

For that, we find fire and violence to be a necessary tactics, which are nothing compared to what they employ against the non-human animals, who they abduct and experiment on.

We are not going to stop until the fire, intimidation, or whatever means necessary, will make it clear that it is not safe nor viable to test on animals.

To prove this point, we take credit for the total liberation of cats, guinea pigs, and mice from one of the University of La Plata’s vivariums, as well as the subsequent arson.

This was not an isolated act. We will continue until they realize that every act has a consequence; we will not stop until the exploitation stops.

We encourage stalking, intimidating, and destroying these and every exploiter of animals.

Happy New Years, exploiters!