In the spirit of goodwill to all kinds, 300 birds were released from their prisons in two separate actions by the ALF recently. In one raid in Hereford, people spirited away 250 chickens from a factory farm. The other raid in Somerset saw the release of 50 turkeys destined for Xmas dinner.
This comes on top of a wave of sabotage attacks on vivisection targets, farm machinery and Barclay's bank ATM s across the south of England (that's one run on a bank not reaching the mainstream press...)

* Meanwhile, Italian liberationists attacked two mink farms, freeing 6,000 mink between them. On the Sep 23rd, activists cut the fences of a huge farm outside Vicenza, allowing 3,000 furry creatures go free for the first time in their lives. The next day saw a similar raid outside Verona, where another 3,000 were freed.