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Archae

(46,340 posts) Mon Oct 7, 2013, 12:08 PM Oct 2013

"Animal Rights" morons attack a mink farm, again.

Sure thing.

Dump 2,000 domesticated mink into an ecosystem, those that are not recaptured soon will starve to death, become roadkill or create havoc within that ecosystem.

This is what happens when a group thinks "Bambi" is a nature documentary.

Mink recovered after 2,000 released from Wisconsin farm

Published 8:25 AM CDT Oct 07, 2013

NEW HOLSTEIN, Wis. —The FBI and Calumet County sheriff's officials were investigating Sunday after 2,000 mink were set free from a fur farm.

Deputies arrived around 4:45 p.m. Saturday to the Bonlander Furs farm in New Holstein after a report of mink on the road, according to Post-Crescent Media.

One of the farm's owners, Virginia Bonlander, said about 100 family, friends and other mink farmers helped locate the mink in traps and by hand Saturday. By the afternoon, about 1,500 had been captured.

Read more: http://www.wisn.com/news/south-east-wisconsin/ozaukee-washington/mink-recovered-after-2000-released-from-wisconsin-farm/-/10151118/22311804/-/nkih3r/-/index.html#ixzz2h3JJn100

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"Animal Rights" morons attack a mink farm, again. (Original Post) Archae Oct 2013 OP

these farms should be shut down fitman Oct 2013 #1

That's as may be - but this doesn't seem like the ideal method to accomplish that. el_bryanto Oct 2013 #2

My wife is a veterinarian and calls on chicken farms fitman Oct 2013 #6

Corporate farms or family farms? el_bryanto Oct 2013 #7

Both fitman Oct 2013 #8

I wonder if those who did this have any clue what, or how much, a mink eats. Yes, they should not uppityperson Oct 2013 #3

I have lost handmade34 Oct 2013 #5

Not good for the mink...but also not good for the "farmers" joeybee12 Oct 2013 #4

Post removed Post removed Oct 2013 #10

Let me guess, you post nonsense... joeybee12 Oct 2013 #11

I'm against mink farming Tien1985 Oct 2013 #9

Activists would let my pigeons go free. aikoaiko Oct 2013 #12

Animal rights groups (like PETA) need a reality check. Archae Oct 2013 #14

So it's OK with you that they live a tortured existance and are then skinned alive? MoonRiver Oct 2013 #13

They aren't saving them though Marrah_G Oct 2013 #15

But they're not being shut down. MoonRiver Oct 2013 #16

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fitman

(482 posts)

1. these farms should be shut down

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2013, 12:10 PM

Oct 2013

Nasty

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

2. That's as may be - but this doesn't seem like the ideal method to accomplish that.

Reply to fitman (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 7, 2013, 12:11 PM

Oct 2013

And I'd argue that conditions on most corporate chicken farms are probably worse.

Bryant

fitman

(482 posts)

6. My wife is a veterinarian and calls on chicken farms

Reply to el_bryanto (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 7, 2013, 12:19 PM

Oct 2013

for the state inspections..most are a lot better than in the past and humane..
Most farmers today realize happy chicks produce more eggs or more weight if for consumption.

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

7. Corporate farms or family farms?

Reply to fitman (Reply #6)

Mon Oct 7, 2013, 12:20 PM

Oct 2013

If both I'm glad to hear it.

Bryant

fitman

(482 posts)

8. Both

Reply to el_bryanto (Reply #7)

Mon Oct 7, 2013, 12:22 PM

Oct 2013

Lot better than 20 years ago..

Co's these farmers sell to are also more aware and are requiring more humane living conditions. They do spot inspections all the time on their own.

Farmers today are way more environmentaly aware than their father were.

uppityperson

(115,678 posts)

3. I wonder if those who did this have any clue what, or how much, a mink eats. Yes, they should not

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2013, 12:13 PM

Oct 2013

be locked up on farms, but simply releasing them is not at all fair to them.

handmade34

(22,757 posts)

5. I have lost

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 7, 2013, 12:16 PM

Oct 2013

many chickens to mink... they are vicious killers!

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)

4. Not good for the mink...but also not good for the "farmers"

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2013, 12:15 PM

Oct 2013

And that is actually good.

Response to joeybee12 (Reply #4)

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joeybee12

(56,177 posts)

11. Let me guess, you post nonsense...

Reply to Post removed (Reply #10)

Mon Oct 7, 2013, 12:28 PM

Oct 2013

Mine made sense and you know it if you thought about it...let me guess, you're all for animal slaughter for profit, right?

Tien1985

(920 posts)

9. I'm against mink farming

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2013, 12:25 PM

Oct 2013

But this was seriously stupid on the activist's part.

I glad they found so many.

aikoaiko

(34,183 posts)

12. Activists would let my pigeons go free.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2013, 12:29 PM

Oct 2013

I used a flock of pigeons to for my research and they lived in an isolated aviary.

Every once in while, someone would let the pigeons fly out and "set them free".

Little did they know that all I had to do was sprinkle some feed on the aviary floor, leave the door open, that would all return by the next morning when they got hungry.