Earlier this month we reported that a German woman had been arrested in Holland at a mink farm. 5,000 mink had been released from the farm. Shortly after news of the first arrest came out rumours started to emerge of a second and possible third arrest.
ELP can now report that a second woman has also been arrested and she has also been remanded into custody. For legal reasons we can't name either of the women. But e-mail letters of support can be sent to:
Anonymous Female Prisoner One
holland@die-tierbefreier.de
Anonymous Female Prisoner Two dbf-sg@riseup.net
Both women are vegan.
Anonymous Female Prisoner One
holland@die-tierbefreier.de Anonymous Female Prisoner Two
dbf-sg@riseup.net Both women are vegan.
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Any news on the Mink?
22.11.2009 21:26
Niomi Scott
"Niomi Scott"
22.11.2009 22:48
Anywhere but a cage to spend life is better. Wouldn't you think "Niomi"?
Being caged for life in the first place is the crime.
The screws will pay..
Front
@ Front
23.11.2009 05:02
In many areas the European mink is facing extinction because of the actions of brainless AR activists releasing American mink into the wild. Believe it or not the European mink aren't going to shake hands and make peace with the Americans.
You've deliberately let a non native killer loose in a habitat where it can pretty much out compete everything going, YOU have blood on YOUR hands now.
You apply irrational logic in a delicate situation which requires a rational mind. You are no better than a logger chopping down a forest, your actions effectively have the same impact devastating the existing local ecosystem.
Pro Animal Rights, but against releasing non native species.
won't someone think of the natives?! poor little-englander mink...
23.11.2009 10:52
Please, don't come the "rational" argument when you spew such idiocy.
VA
liberated mink are not a threat to wildlife
23.11.2009 11:59
animals are not products
freedom for all.
solidarity with all prisoners!X
sugar sue
hmmm
23.11.2009 13:21
Disco
Don't comment on this post
23.11.2009 13:26
You learn all you need to know by the article itself.
There is no point in arguing with the police who have commented above, rise above the likes of Stevo and his chums at SHAC Watch and use the time you would have spent arguing on here to do something more productive in solidarity with the two prisoners.
Stevo Helped Murder Ian Tomlinson :)
Homepage:
http://www.shac.net
I think you're missing the point
23.11.2009 15:18
I'm not opposed to liberations however one has to apply common sense, rather than rabidly cutting cages. If one liberates chickens from a farm for isntance they don't shove them into the woodland and say be free, they're re-homed in a place where they wont be exploited for meat or eggs so they can live out their life peacefully. The same must apply for American mink who will either die very quickly from exposure, or survive to predate upon existing species in the area.
Pro Animal Rights, but against releasing non native species.
Wildlife always moves around and changes over time
23.11.2009 17:50
The real crime is imprisoning animals like this in tiny cages to go batshit insane, and then murdering them for fur coats.
Good luck to the people releasing the mink and other fur-bearing animals from their cages. Here's hoping we see more of it this year and in the future.
vegan
Assumptions
23.11.2009 18:57
We don't even know the location of the mink farm, what the environment is like in the surrounding area, or how the release on mink will impact. I'm sure whoever did it, would have thought about it. We don't even know anything about the action. We don't know how many were released, whether they were taken and released in appropriate areas... we don't know anything about it, so all these comments about the negative effects of the release are just assumptions. For all we know mink could already be established in the area surrounding the farm from any the farmer has released, or any that have escaped themselves.
Jane
to vegan
24.11.2009 15:31
Note, i am not saying that non-native species are not an issue in general, but that such an analysis needs to be done on a species by species basis in relation to the existing flora and fauna, and in the case of mink, it is not as simple as you make out.
As someone else commented, before you get high and mighty about the animal libbers have you considered the effect of humans. How much pollution and consumption is based around a mink farm, for starters... I've been to some, and they are pretty grim ecologically, not unlike the salmon farms, full of chemicals and articifical feedstuff. You cant have it everyway.
frustrated
ner ner ner
27.11.2009 00:47
so what
Stevo Helped Murder Ian Tomlinson :) made all sence
ian rip
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