"Between knives and animals": activists block six slaughterhouses in France and the Netherlands, a first

The simultaneous and unprecedented operation took place between midnight and 3 a.m. Activists from the anti-speciesist collective 269 Libération Animale illegally entered six calf slaughterhouses located across France and the Netherlands on the night of Sunday, July 6, to Monday, July 7, before chaining themselves to the killing stations where the bloodletting takes place. The activists' goal: " To place themselves between the knives and the animals " and " hold out as long as possible " against the police.

" For the first time, six slaughterhouses were blocked simultaneously by a hundred European activists ," said Tiphaine Lagarde, co-founder and spokesperson for 269 Libération Animale. " These slaughterhouses all belong to the Dutch group VanDrie, a world leader in the industrial exploitation of calves. According to our sources, this group slaughters 1.8 million of them per year." In a press release dated July 7, 269 Libération Animale explained that it wanted to inflict economic losses on the VanDrie group, which " declared a turnover of 3.4 billion euros in 2023. " However, " every hour of blockage