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ALF Strike Fife Deer Farm

CH | 26.03.2006 22:45 | Animal Liberation

A deer farm praised for its animal welfare standards was attacked by animal rights activists late on the night of Wednesday 22nd March. Hundreds of metres of fencing were cut down and slogans painted on the road leading to family-run Reediehill Farm near Auchtermuchty.

Grafitti on the Road Sign
Grafitti on the Road Sign

Fencing cut down and left on site
Fencing cut down and left on site

6-foot tall Deer Fencing cut
6-foot tall Deer Fencing cut

ALF Claiming the Action
ALF Claiming the Action

No Deer Escaped
No Deer Escaped


The slogans included "Wildlife Prison", "Scum" and "ALF See U again soon". Fences were cut down from four of the six fields, including six foot high double fencing to keep the deer away from hedgerows and tree plantations. None of the herd of 450 deer chose to escape through the holes cut or were injured on the rolls of fencing left lying in the fields. A member of the family pointed out that deer have escaped in the past but made their own way back to the farm.

The residents were distraught and baffled as to why they had been targeted. "Why don't they go free some battery chickens instead?" asked a friend of the family. No animal welfare concerns have ever been raised about the herd, kept outdoors in several acres of field and slaughtered on site. On the contrary, the vets and hygiene inspectors who work with the family are said to be impressed by how humanely the system is run. The Chief Executive of Compassion in World Farming condemned the action, saying "clearly farming systems that involve the animals enjoying an outdoor environment where they are not subjected to transport stress or alien environments at slaughter are far better than the factory farmed conditions that most farm animals endure".

The locally-produced venison is sold mostly through Farmers' Markets and by mail order. In many ways the farm is the antithesis of mass, industrial meat production, raising questions of whether it was chosen to be "visited" because it was perceived as a soft target by the activists.

CH

Comments

Display the following 28 comments

  1. targeting — bobby
  2. Welfare? — Tim
  3. A challenge for ALF — JE
  4. Think about ecology too! — Colin
  5. A challenge for JE! — Auto-No-Mouse
  6. Save the cute bunnies F**K your fellow humans.......Priorities — stavros
  7. Deer liberation — james
  8. Animal Farming — mary
  9. To stavros — sarah
  10. Stavros has no eyes — Tim
  11. Rsvp — Stavros
  12. Food Chain a thoughtless mantra — Mick
  13. Stupidity and cowardice in roughly equal measure — Richard
  14. Welfare or cruelty? — Dr Dolittle
  15. MIck Please give me rational questions. — Stavros Carnivore
  16. ?? — sarah
  17. "animals not yet proved they are self aware"-self decieving technique — Mick
  18. Mick — Smart Arse
  19. somebody challenge my arguments intelligently rather than insulting me. please — Stavros 'fluffy bunny' Carnivore.
  20. Smart arse — Why
  21. Bite Back — Why
  22. why not — CH
  23. Platform — Why
  24. ??? — sarah
  25. response to "platform" from "why" — CH
  26. to Tim — Choice
  27. To Choice-Captive holding area's or pleasant green pastures? — Tim
  28. Choice — Mick