Swedish Photo Collection

The following photographs were recently sent to me, with a request to put them on my site. Click on the location and date to see each set of photographs. The text below is a translation of the communiques received with the photographs.
Skara 1/3/97 - On March 1st 1997, there were held a demonstration against Sweden´s fur farmers yearly auction, which was held in Skara. The demonstrators later started to throw stones and other stuff at the hotel and the police, and the police called it all a riot, and five people were arrested and fined.

Vingaker 18/9/97 - September 18th another fur farm was attacked by the antifur group De Vilda Minkarna (The Wild Minks). Kasta Silver-Rav in Vingaker was visited by animal liberationists. The farm is a breeding farm for foxes, ie they breed and sell animals to other farms. The animals that were on the farm are longterm breeding animals that are used in breeding 8-10 years, and every female can give birth to up to 12 kids per year. On the farm there were foxes of all kind: farmas redfox, silverfox, bluefox and more variants. The animals were held in cages on the ground that were around 9 meters. The foxes were kept two and two, and the water bowls that were in the cages were since long empty and dirty. Activists from DVM cut a hole in the fence and went into the farm and catched four foxes that were carried outside the farm and released in a big forest. These breedinganimals are a big loss for the farmer. The action is dedicated to the English animal liberationist Barry Horne who since the beginning of August is hungerstriking to abolish vivisection. De Vilda Minkarna will continue to strike against the fur farms until the fur industry is crushed! - DVM

Bralanda 21/10/98 - The night between October 21st and 22nd 1998, the D.B.F. (Swedish A.L.F.) released 5700 minks from "Smedserud fur farm" in Bralanda, Sweden, owned by Bengt-Erik Andersson.

Orbyhus 1/4/99 - During a daylight raid four beagle dogs were liberated from Wema-hund AB. This place has bred dogs for vivisection for over 30 years. This was the first liberation ever at this facility. All the dogs have now been placed in new homes where they will be able to live the rest of their lives in peace. One of the liberated beagles had an injured eye. The breeders also claim that another one of the dogs has an eye that has just been operated upon. The breeder is privately owned and small, an easy target for grassroot animal rights campaigners to close, so we urge them to take action now and to save the Wema-dogs. - DBF

Stockholm 12/4/99 - DBF-activists rescued 15 rats from vivisection. The rat mother and 14 rat children were in a box on a train. Information on the box revealed that they came from lab animal suppliers Charles River and they were on their way to a lab in Sweden. The activists got on the train and quickly rescued the rat family from a life of torture and pain. The rats are now safe and loved - DBF

Bredaryd 15/07/99 - On July 15:th 25 rabbits were saved from Furkull´s rabbit slaughterhouse in Bredaryd, Varnamo. All the rabbits were in bad condition and several of them needed veterinary care and medicine. Many people have rabbits at home, but doesn´t think about that it is around 50000 rabbits who are murdered just in this slaughterhouse every year, just to be "food", caps or a little detail on a jacket. The rabbits now live in homes where they are cared about, loved and have a safe future." - DBF

Orkelljunga 8/8/99 - Early a morning this weekend, the Astra-owned beagle breeder outside Orkelljunga (Sweden) got visited by animal liberationists. The breeder that is full of high technology surveillance and that is surrounded by a high barb wire fence, breeds dogs for vivisection and is the biggest of its kind in Sweden. It lies in the middle of the forest, like a fort in a otherwise beautiful environment.
The fence was cut up and when the activists got in to the area, a motion detector larm was triggered. Searchlights was turned on and sirens started to smake a stressing noise.
The dogs lived in "piece of cakes" where there wasn´t any other stimulation than to fight with each others. From there they are sent to vivisection and tortured under miserable circumstances. The activists got in and lifted the dogs over the fence on the "piece of cake" where they were taken and was brought out of the area to freedom.
Five young beagle dogs now won´t be tortured and can live their lives in loving homes where they will be respected as individuals and not as components in a profit machine.
The pharmaceutical industry is one of the largest industry in the world, which only purpose is to earn money. In their bluff-bussiness they try to justify the vivisections. What they want the least is that the public shall have insight in how their business work.
One day will come when people won´t have to sneak into, and risk their own freedom to liberate animals from institutes such as this one. That day when animal liberation is more than a word. With love and believe in change, - the Animal Liberation Front

Morarp 4/9/99 The night to September 4th 1999, 24 hens were liberated from Swedens largest battery hens unit Aniagra in Morarp outside Helsingborg. A group called Commando Astrid Lindgren / ALF, has claimed responsibility for the liberation. "Be nice to the animals" were also sprayed on one house. Their name is taken from the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, who was promised on her 80 years birthday that battery hen units were about to be banned, but now the government have betrayed her and the hens, and battery hen units are still allowed.

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This page was last updated: Wednesday 13th October 1999