unintended consequences
Written on 8/29/2003
The Seattle Times: Local News: Freed mink attack Sultan farms
The [10,000] mink were released Monday morning from the Roesler Brothers Fur Farm when someone cut through a fence and opened numerous cages. The Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a group classified as a domestic terror organization by the FBI, has claimed responsibility in an e-mail to the media.
While I don’t necessarily agree with the fur trade and mink farming — by all accounts. mink are ill-tempered, nasty little bastards: their rescuers this week were advised to handle them with oven mitts to avoid being bitten — liberating 10,000 of them to prey on other livestock and housepets, to say nothing of introducing who knows what into the bloodlines of the wild mink doesn’t seem like a useful gesture.
In one move, a fringe group manages to alienate farmers and citizens who may have otherwise sympathized with their cause.
Filed in: observations.
