You’d think that after the incidents in England that resulted in numerous attacks on pets and livestock and massive harm to native wildlife, animal rights groups would learn thah releasing thousands upon thousands of minks into the ecosystem isn’t such a hot idea, but no such luck. Apparently, these dolphin-fellating chimp huggers think minks are the only animals that have any rights. Are they hoping the government will try to prevent further damage by outlawing mink farming?
Yep, these people are insane. They attacked a mink farm near here a year or two ago, and released a couple thousand minks from their cages. About 1/3 of them were killed trying to cross the busy highway next to the farm. The others would be dead within months because domesticated minks can’t survive in the wild. They recaptured a few hundred.
I criticised this action to some animal activist nutcases, they justified their actions by saying that if a few (!!?!?!) animals had to die in order to kill the farming system, that was the price that had to be paid.
It’s easy to say bullshit like that when YOU don’t have to personally die to uphold your beliefs. These nutballs are exploiting animals and killing them to further their own goals, just like the mink farmers, except far more senselessly.
Boy, are you a hypocrite. If these people had, instead of claiming an animal rights agenda, characterized this as a performance art project, you’d be squarely in their corner.
For the record, as a vegetarian and a supporter of some animal rights, I do not condone the actions of so-called “animal liberators,” who both break the law and give little thought to the survival of the animals once they are “liberated.”
From what my mom’s husband has to say about mink temperaments, the last thing you want is a bunch of them running around free to bite you. (He grew up in the middle of nowhere in northern Minnesota. Animals, he knows.) Apparently minks are nasty little bastards.
A zoo in Wisconsin just lost a large population of it’s birds, because two wild mink got into the bird’s area. The mink killed some birds for food, but then went on a killing spree. They removed all the birds from the display, until the mink can be caught.