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Vivisection (from Latin: vivus — “alive,” and sectio — “cutting”) is defined as surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure. The term is sometimes more broadly defined as any experimentation on live animals (see animal testing.)The term is often used by organizations opposed to animal experimentation but is rarely used by practicing scientists.Human vivisection has been perpetrated as a form of torture.

cat_arrow Green Hill 2001 is a company located in Montechiari (Brescia, Italy), which breeds beagle dogs to vivisection labs. From this farm more than 250 dogs each month ending in the enclosures, in the hands of vivisection and operating tables. Dogs are born to die and sentenced to suffer.
Inside the Green Hill 5 huts are locked up to 2500 adults dogs, plus several litters. A larger made of animal shelters closed, aseptic, without open spaces, without natural light or air. Rows and Rows of cages with artificial lighting and ventilation system are the environment in which these dogs grow before being loaded onto a truck and shipped to laboratories in hell.
Among the clients of Green Hill, there are university laboratories, pharmaceutical companies and renowned trial centers as the notorious Huntingdon Life Sciences in England, the largest laboratory animal torture in Europe.
For some years now Green Hill was acquired by an American Firm called Marshall Farms Inc. The Marshall beagle is actually a standard variety. Marshall’s dogs are shipped by air all over the world, but with the purchase of Green Hill as the European headquarters and the construction of a huge farm in China, Marshall is pursuing a plan of expansion and market monopoly.
Green Hill Farm and Marshall also offer its customers on demand surgical treatments, including the cutting or removal of the vocal cords of some glands. For Green Hill and Marshall Farm animals are just merchandise, objects to breed and sell, without the slightest scruple about pain and suffering, mental and physical, that will suffer.

PLEASE HELP THESE DOGS! In Italy there are many protest movements, but so far nothing has changed: too many economic interests behind this savagery.

cat_ninja Italian activists get past police, storm Greenhill, liberate 30 beagles

They have broken through or climbed over the gates networks. They made their way inside the farm and opened the cages, taking away puppies, pregnant and all the little dog beagle who managed to find. It ‘s over a raid in the breeding of dogs to search for the event organized by Occupay Green Hill to ask – again – the closure of the ownership structure of the American Marshall.
The procession started from the parking lot of PalaGeorge, was attended by about 1000 people came from all over North Italy and also from the center. By way of the Craft sepentone deflected Instead of going towards Via San Zeno, the main road leading farm where he was deployed the cordon of police, groups of protesters have cut through the fields and the lanes, coming close to the fences.
From then on, the situation has become confused with groups of demonstrators who tried to open gates in the perimeter and teams of mobile riot police and police deployed to contain them. On the side of the gates, however, the protesters have opened a breach in the fence and broke into the farm, going into the sheds and taking away at least thirty dogs.
At the end of the day, the police had arrested 12 people from the local police station Montichiari were transferred to Desenzano. Some protesters said they had suffered violence by some officials.

cat_idea ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN:
1) Sign a petition demanding the release of human and nonhuman prisoners held at/by Green Hill Labs and the Italian state.
2) Support the ban on breeding vivisection animals in Italy
3) Continue to monitor important events and news, such as at:
A.L.F FRONTE LIBERAZIONE ANIMALE ITALIA
International Day of Action to Close Down Green Hill


THE DOGS WERE NO ONE’S TO “OWN” IN THE FIRST PLACE, LET ALONE TO MAIN, POISON, TORTURE, AND MURDER; HUNDREDS PERHAPS THOUSANDS OF ITALIAN FAMILIES ARE NO DOUBT OFFERING LOVING CARE AND HOMES FOR THESE VICTIMS OF CAPITALISM AND PSEUDO-SCIENCE. THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, VIVISECTION IS ROOTED IN AN OUITMODED 17TH CENTURY PARADIGM. SMASH THE GLOBAL VIVISECTION-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!
MORAL AND SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS ARE INSEPERABLE FROM ANIMAL LIBERATION!