The Animal Liberation Front, heard of these guys? The FBI lists them as a domestic terrorist group. This is their handy work.
SULTAN, Wash. - Days after 10,000 mink were released from a farm in southern Snohomish County, hundreds of the animals not yet captured have converged on local farms in search of food.
The animals had killed at least 25 exotic birds and attacked other livestock in the area.
"Over half our livestock was shredded. Murdered. Eaten alive," said Jeff Weaver, who discovered the dead birds on his farm Thursday. "These are not like regular farm animals. They're our pets."
Weaver, who breeds Indian Runner ducks and Banny chickens, said his field was full of the animals Thursday morning.
"One of the mink had part of a chicken in its mouth and was headed for the creek," he said. "They're starving. They'll kill anything in their path."
The mink also killed Weaver's geese, chicken and ducks, as well as wounded a dog and ate a 50-pound bag of bird feed. With an estimated loss of $2,000, he said he plans to improve fences, set traps and, if necessary, use a shotgun to fend off future assaults.
Diane and Joe Sallee are sealing their chickens in at night after they found the mink had killed six hens and injured several other that had to be euthanized.
"This has just devastated our chicken population. We are just so upset by this," Diane Sallee said. "The people who do these things don't think it through."
Nope, these guys don't think at all, ever. Might ruin their plans to actually consider the people and other animals they fuck over in their little emotional jihad. Their friends in the movement aren't even sorry their little rescuee's are ripping other animals to pieces.
Animal activists argue that while the farm animals' deaths are unfortunate, it proves minks raised in captivity can survive in the wild.
"The amount of suffering that has been prevented by releasing them from cramped cages and freeing them from an extremely cruel death more than justifies a temporary disruption to the ecosystem," said veterinarian Andrew Knight, director of research at the Seattle-based Northwest Animal Rights Network.
A spade is a spade, this hasn't got a damn thing to do with animal suffering. It's about their hatred for corperate farms and people who make their living with animals. 1000 starving minks roaming around and attacking anything they can. No humans in danger? Think again, how big is a two year old in a back yard? How large is an infant near an open window? They've attacked a dog, and geese are not that small. If one single child is attacked because these cockroachs think they get to make the rules cause they care more, then they should simply be shot on sight. Or fed to starving minks.
I could care less about fur, I don't believe in being needlessly cruel, but this is insane. They did nothing but put children in danger, cost thousands, and increase the level of suffering for a range of animals, including the minks. These retards are proud of themselves.
A personal message to ALF.
This has been in the local news... and not only are the minks killing farm animals, they're killing each other.
Posted by: Mollbot on August 30, 2003 02:32 AMYou guys'll love this.
I went on the Seattle IMC anonymously and said that some of the local farmers were paying some friends and I $5 a pelt to kill these critters.
You should see the some of the responses I got.
Posted by: analog kid on August 30, 2003 02:38 AMFeed the Animal Rights "People" to the Animals.
Best solution, as I see it. Or declaring war on them as enemies of the human race (well, they are, aren't they?) They benefit from the rest of us treating them as fully human, subject to the legal protections and rights thereof. They don't treat US as fully human, it seems. I'm for returning the favour.