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The 269 Life France association (also called 269 Life France) is the French division of the collective global animal welfare non-profit 269 Life. They started their activity on 24 December 2012 but without registered legal status. They were initially active especially in the area of Paris, then in October 2015 they became an organization with statutes deposed in the prefecture of Nancy.

They promote a vegan, antispeciesist and abolitionist lifestyle. This means to live thinking of the different animal species as equal in terms of dignity and acknowledging that they deserve at least the right to live. Moreover, it means to think that it is immoral to take advantage of them for human purposes. Abolitionism works for the end of animal exploitation as well as the end of speciesism. They often organise street actions in large parts of Grand Est, in Ile-de-France and in some cities elsewhere in France. Actions consist mostly of happenings, information booths and leafleting. One action of national in scope takes place every 26 September in Paris in reference to 269 which means 26/9.

History
The association was created in 2012 in Israel. The collective 269 refers to the number assigned to a calf rescued from the slaughterhouse (Calf 269). Several similar associations quickly started to appear in various countries with the same graphic charter and benefiting from a "patent". 269 Life France’s founders are part of the antispeciesist and abolitionist movement.

Goals
Broadly speaking, 269 Life France aims to provide information on the condition of animals in our society, to denounce animal exploitation, and to provide information on alternative nutrition in support of a vegan lifestyle.

Noteworthy campaigns
269 Life France can rely on a hundred activists to organise awareness-raising measures, demonstrations or happenings about animal slaughter, speciesism or food waste.

Among these actions, in 2015, the association condemned the exploitation of animals and more specifically animal slaughter and slaughterhouse cruelty with a mise-en-scène representing an open-air slaughterhouse on the Place du Palais-Royal in Paris.

In 2016, on the Place de la République in Paris, 269 Life France organized a bloody happening. They branded 17 voluntary activists. This was filmed by journalists, was watched on YouTube by tens of thousands of people, and appeared in newspapers in more than 60 countries.

269 Life Animal Liberation
269 Life France should not be confused with the collective 269 Animal Liberation which was founded by Tiphaine Lagarde and Ceylan Cirik in Lyon in 2016. They aim for the same goals but use different methods. This organization takes significant and virulent actions and claims that they have to break the law following civil disobedience theory. On 12 October 2017, Tiphaine Lagarde and Ceylan Cirik, co-presidents of 269 Life Animal Liberation, were convicted before the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Chalon-sur-Saône following their action against the Bigard slaughterhouse in Cuiseaux on 15 June 2017.