Unoffensive Animal / Thursday, 16 October, 2025
A thick air with a pestilential smell. Dirt, dust and excrement everywhere. The deafening noise of incessant ventilation. Thousands of individuals confined and cramped together, treated like nothing more than commodities to be exploited. This is what witnessed when we entered this place. These hens never see the sunlight. Their legs lie on metal supports. Some show missing feathers, with sad and defeated gazes, literally being shat on by their peers in the rows above them. Twice during the summer, armed with our lamps, our boxes and our determination, we liberated 62 of them from this hell. What a powerful feeling to escape through the night with them in our arms toward their new freedom!
They are now living in safe places where they can be cared for, discover and explore their new environment, meet and bond with their new human and non humans life partners. It is worth reminding that hens are curious, social and intelligent animals.
Antispeciesism is a political struggle and a battle we wish to lead alongside other animals as comrades, directly in the places that exploit them. We must never forget that direct action only exists as a response to a systemic and trivialized violence: the one of which animals are victims.
For all animals that resist and fight against human cruelty, for those who have died from it, for those who survive. Every day, more and more of us see you, hear you, and stand up for justice, respect, and freedom. Until every cage is empty.”
