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Lydia & Vivi 💕
Vegan for the animals 🌱⚖️
Vigil organizer @animalsavenederland 🐖
Graduated in Nutrition & Dietetics 📚
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Bear witness and remember these poor creatures next time you have a meal. We don't have to breed, mutilate and kill any of them, but here we are... @billieeilish @moby @billybrit @mennovand53 @anitaverbaandert
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Maak kennis met ons team! Bart uit Nijmegen is één van de organizers van de Boxtel Pig Save. #animalsave #vigils #comecloser #bearwitness #boxtel
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Her Last Hours It's longer than you think. She's 18 to 24 months old, an age where her body has been laying nearly every day since she was barely grown. That's what shows up here: brittle bones, thin feathers, injuries that may have already happened before she was ever loaded onto this truck. Catching alone causes severe injuries, fractures, dislocated joints, in an estimated 8% of hens in commercial studies. Feed and water withdrawal isn't consistently regulated: some countries allow up to 24 hours without water before slaughter, far beyond what scientists recommend as humane. This entire stage happens on ordinary highways, in trucks most people never notice. Going egg-free means she never rides this truck at all. -----------⁠-----------⁠ Footage via @thesavemovement with @bartstaassen & Ria Strik @egg_truth #EggTruth #vigil #LayerHens #freshEggs #slaughterhouse
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Demo Prinsjesdag. Waar zijn de dieren in de Troonrede. Uitgebuit-mishandeld - verminkt - afgeslacht - doodgeschoten - geschopt - vergast - versnipperd - gekleineerd - geslagen- vermoord - gegeten. EN GEEN WOORD IN DE TROONREDE. 15 september 2026 💛willen jullie zoveel mogelijk delen voor de dieren.
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Every other month, the gates of the largest pig slaughterhouse in the Netherlands open for a small group of people who refuse to look away. They come to witness. To hold space. To offer love and water through metal bars to animals who, for most of them, are feeling fresh air and sunlight for the very first time. Bart Staassen (39) has been here 13 times. His grandfather used to be a pig farmer and truck driver bringing animals to this very place; now he stands at the same gates for a different reason. Carmen Veldscholten (27) is attending a vigil for the first time, her hand pressed against a snout through the bars. “I’m sorry,” she whispers, and starts to cry. What makes these vigils special is that they happen in collaboration with the slaughterhouse. Vion opens its gates, shares water for the animals, and encourages their drivers to stop for the activists. It’s not agreement or even respect, @animalsavenederland organiser Lea Goodett says. She calls it “mutual tolerance.” But in a world where these animals are almost entirely invisible, even that is something. 📸✍️🗞️Today in print and online @trouw.deverdieping .
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More results. Link to full report in bio. Photo by @weanimals 📷
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Some survey results. Link to full report in bio. Photo by @weanimals 📷
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LINK IN BIO. This survey report explores the experiences, motivations, challenges, behaviours, and activism of people who have gone vegan. While interest in veganism is growing, there is still limited data on what drives the shift, how long people stay committed, which forms of activism they engage in, and what helps sustain that commitment. A total of 937 vegans from diverse backgrounds participated, sharing insights into personal preferences, education, and activism. The goal is not to promote a specific viewpoint, but to provide data that helps individuals, activists, educators, and organisations better understand what moves people toward veganism, and what comes after.
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February 2, 2026. Boxtel, Netherlands. The journey ends here. The doors open. Light hurts our eyes. Voices we do not know. Hands that do not push. Water, cool and unexpected. For a brief moment, nothing is demanded of us. They stand close. They stay. They look into our faces and do not turn away. This pause exists because some choose to be here— because Animal Save Netherlands stands at this place, again and again, creating space where none was meant to exist. Then the air changes. The doors close. Later, the truck leaves empty. If someone remembers us, we are not entirely gone. ——— 02.02.2026. Boxtel, Niederlande. Die Fahrt endet hier. Die Türen öffnen sich. Licht brennt in den Augen. Stimmen, die wir nicht kennen. Hände, die nicht drängen. Wasser, kühl und unerwartet. Für einen kurzen Moment wird nichts von uns verlangt. Sie stehen nah. Sie bleiben. Sie sehen unsere Gesichter und wenden sich nicht ab. Diese Pause existiert, weil sich manche entscheiden, hier zu sein— weil Animal Save Netherlands an diesem Ort immer wieder Raum schafft, wo keiner vorgesehen ist. Dann verändert sich die Luft. Die Türen schließen sich. Später fährt der LKW leer hinaus. Wenn sich jemand an uns erinnert, sind wir nicht ganz verloren @animalsavenederland @animalsavedach @thesavemovement @bielefeldanimalsave @siegenanimalsave #bearwitness
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February 2, 2026. Boxtel, Netherlands. The journey ends here. The doors open. Light hurts our eyes. Voices we do not know. Hands that do not push. Water, cool and unexpected. For a brief moment, nothing is demanded of us. They stand close. They stay. They look into our faces and do not turn away. This pause exists because some choose to be here— because Animal Save Netherlands stands at this place, again and again, creating space where none was meant to exist. Then the air changes. The doors close. Later, the truck leaves empty. If someone remembers us, we are not entirely gone. ——— 02.02.2026. Boxtel, Niederlande. Die Fahrt endet hier. Die Türen öffnen sich. Licht brennt in den Augen. Stimmen, die wir nicht kennen. Hände, die nicht drängen. Wasser, kühl und unerwartet. Für einen kurzen Moment wird nichts von uns verlangt. Sie stehen nah. Sie bleiben. Sie sehen unsere Gesichter und wenden sich nicht ab. Diese Pause existiert, weil sich manche entscheiden, hier zu sein— weil Animal Save Netherlands an diesem Ort immer wieder Raum schafft, wo keiner vorgesehen ist. Dann verändert sich die Luft. Die Türen schließen sich. Später fährt der LKW leer hinaus. Wenn sich jemand an uns erinnert, sind wir nicht ganz verloren @animalsavenederland @thesavemovement @animalsavedach @bielefeldanimalsave @siegenanimalsave @essenanimalsave @anita.krajnc #savemovement #bearwitness #animalsave
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February 2, 2026. Boxtel, Netherlands. The journey ends here. The doors open. Light hurts our eyes. Voices we do not know. Hands that do not push. Water, cool and unexpected. For a brief moment, nothing is demanded of us. They stand close. They stay. They look into our faces and do not turn away. This pause exists because some choose to be here— because Animal Save Netherlands stands at this place, again and again, creating space where none was meant to exist. Then the air changes. The doors close. Later, the truck leaves empty. If someone remembers us, we are not entirely gone. ——— 02.02.2026. Boxtel, Niederlande. Die Fahrt endet hier. Die Türen öffnen sich. Licht brennt in den Augen. Stimmen, die wir nicht kennen. Hände, die nicht drängen. Wasser, kühl und unerwartet. Für einen kurzen Moment wird nichts von uns verlangt. Sie stehen nah. Sie bleiben. Sie sehen unsere Gesichter und wenden sich nicht ab. Diese Pause existiert, weil sich manche entscheiden, hier zu sein— weil Animal Save Netherlands an diesem Ort immer wieder Raum schafft, wo keiner vorgesehen ist. Dann verändert sich die Luft. Die Türen schließen sich. Später fährt der LKW leer hinaus. Wenn sich jemand an uns erinnert, sind wir nicht ganz verloren. @animalsavenederland @bielefeldanimalsave @siegenanimalsave @thesavemovement @animalsavedach
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February 2, 2026 Today we held our first vigil at the VION slaughterhouse. The transporters were full and the pigs had numerous injuries. Nevertheless, they enjoyed the water, the warming hands, and the love we were able to give them. It is incredible how trusting and curious the little ones are. Six months old, without sunlight or fresh air, turbo-fattened. No romping around with their mothers, no rooting in the earth, only artificial light, slatted floors, and people who do not mean well by them, but send them to the gas gondola. They are all living beings that would not exist if there were not still people who finance this exploitation and death because they eat them. Humans do not need meat to live! Live vegan and end this madness 🌱 #vion #vigil #slaughterhouse #endofspeciesism #pigs
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