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About two months ago Animal Liberation Front activists released 7,000 mink from a farm in Hampshire, England. Recently activists released another 2,000 Mink from a farm in Onneley.
What have the results of this act of "liberation" been? Mostly a lot of dead mink and other animals. The mink have terrorized local wildlife, attacking pets and small farm animals. A group of mink even attacked a local fisherman who happened to be using dog food as bait.
The local media hasn't been fooled by the supposedly "compassionate" animal rights activists. As a Daily Telegraph editorial summed it up,
The sort of people who released these mink have no attachment to animals. Some rally to this bogus cause because it offers a license to destroy other people's property ... in other moods this is a movement that will make war on farmers who keep livestock and set fire to butchers' shops ... Like much else done in the name of "animal rights," it amounts to mindless criminal activity that serves no cause whatever. Its only consequence has been to destroy wildlife and expose the pretensions of those who claim to be defending animals.
I don't think I could have said it any better.
Sources:
Showdown on the farm. Richard Askwith, The Independent, Sept. 5, 1998.
The mink are back ... and this time they're angry. Science.
"Animal rights and wrongs," The Daily Telegraph, Sept. 18, 1998.