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Mink farm targeted by animal rights group
By: Joe Barrett
Thursday, March 20, 2008
http://gocleangogreen.blogspot.com/2008/03/greenvibrations-mink-farm-targeted-by.html

GARDAÍ in Portlaoise are investigating an attack by animal rights
activists at a mink farm in Vicarstown after a large number of mink
were released from their pens over the weekend.

A garda source told the Laois Nationalist sometime over the weekend
the mink farm was accessed when someone broke a lock from a gate,
released over 500 mink and sprayed graffiti around the farmyard.

Una Heffernan of Vasa Limited which owns the farm, said while the mink
had been released from their cages they were contained in the holding
compound of the yard and none had escaped into the countryside.

Ms Hefferan said graffiti sprayed around the buildings was quite
specific and gave the name of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF).

She was unable to say whether this group has any connections with
another group the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade who have held
protests outside her farm on a number of occasions.

This is not the first time the mink farm has been targeted in such a
way. About five years ago animal rights activists released about 50
mink into the wild. These were quickly rounded up.

To date no one has ever been arrested, charged or convicted with any
illegal activity in attempting to release mink from the farm.

There have been sporadic protests outside the farm over the past
number of years by the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade venting
their opposition to the farm's activities.

Speaking to the Laois Nationalist yesterday (Tuesday) from a protest
line outside the Department of Agriculture in Dublin Laura Broxson, a
spokesperson for this group, denied any of her members was involved in
any way in the weekend's events.

She said her group has no connections to the Animal Liberation Front.

"This is the first we've heard about this. We're not a group that gets
involved in any illegal activities. We do however support direct legal
action. We demonstrate and distribute publications opposing the fur
trade and would not condone last weekend's actions.

"We can understand though why some people are inclined to take matters
into their own hands in this way. There is a lot of frustration at the
slowness of the Government in coming forward with legislation to
outlaw the fur trade in the country.

"Some people see this type of action as similar to freeing slaves.
Those underground activists see mink farmers as locking up wild
animals against their nature in confined spaces."

Ms Broxson said her group intends organising "an awareness" day in
Portlaoise in May or June which will be followed by a protest outside
the mink farm and she is asking local people opposed to the fur trade
to join them in their day of action.


I doubt many of these Self Righteous Twists ever stopped and figured out that leather is fur with the hair removed.

.........Ya' just can't shoot people anymore!

its only illegal if ya get caught shooting the ignorant SOB's.

they arent worth the shells

And yet another one. Bite Back is used to brag about destroying the animal husbandry practices of anybody from a mink rancher to a dog owner's kennels by ALF fanatics & terrorists.


Bite Back
http://www.directaction.info/

March 22, 2008 - Ireland
HUNDREDS OF MINK FREED FROM CAGES

anonymous communique:

"Last weekend, the Irish Animal Liberation Front visited Ireland's
largest fur farm - Vasa Ltd, in Co. Laois.

The ALF made their way through the locked gate in a matter of seconds,
and then the real fun started...

A quick scan of the area showed that the sheds were enclosed in an
area secured by corrugated steel. No problem - a huge hole was then
cut into this, the wire mesh behind it snipped, and the hedgerow
behind that was then cleared - to allow the Mink easy access to the
river running beside this concentration camp.

Graffiti was sprayed all around the place, including the signature
'ALF' calling card.

300 breeding cards were removed from one of the sheds, and then destroyed.

Moving onto the next shed, 300 Mink were liberated and were then
guided to freedom, before the ALF disappeared into the darkness. It
was unbearable to have to leave the others behind.

Una and Michael Heffernan are responsible for murdering over 45,000
Mink on this death camp every year. It's time to make them pay for
this.

The ALF will be back, Una and Michael - and don't think that the cows
and horses you keep locked up too were unnoticed.

Until all are free,
ALF Ireland"vv

I wonder if any of them thought about what several hundred mink unleashed on an area at one time would do to the rest of the local animal population.

That is some very serious, and threatening, terrorism communicated by the insurgents after that illegal caper - a confession in writing. Are there not laws in place there to investigate and prosecute? Scary stuff.

Jonathan

I wonder if they realize they stepped over the line by making threats to do harm to the owners?

There are a couple of mink farms not far from here. Everybody around here knows DO NOT RUN OUT OF GAS AFTER DARK AND GO THERE FOR HELP. They have armed guards and they do not mess around, No Tresspassing means exactly that.

lol hawkeye, i would say not! they probally keep it guarded like the brinks money trucks!

Something similar happened here in PA a couple years ago. Wackos broke into a mink farm, killed 2 watchdogs (by clubbing them), released dozens of mink, then ran over a bunch of them with their truck as they drove outta there. Some animal rights group took responsibility, but I don't think any charges were ever filed

the cops wont do much about it {they have better things to do }
just ask them . had some thing like that happen to some farmers
at a dary farm down the road / they killed a few cows and panted
some of them with red paint . but they love animals lol