Reader comments: Summit County mink farms on alert after suspicious activity
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ZAhgURiM | 2:41 p.m. Oct. 7, 2008
Those farmers should understand, sooner or later someone wont be there to ask questions. They'll be forcing there views.
Robert | 2:58 p.m. Oct. 7, 2008
Aside from theft and vandalism, the problem with these raids on mink farms is that the most harm is done not to the farms themselves, which are generally insured for such losses, but to the minks who are released and lost. They are eaten by predators, injured by the unfamiliar terrain, and run over by passing motorists.
Thus, the groups that perform the vandalism end up hurting the minks more than the farmers who own them.
Thus, the groups that perform the vandalism end up hurting the minks more than the farmers who own them.
predators | 8:59 p.m. Oct. 7, 2008
How about the stupidity of turning all those mink loose in the eco system?
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Pflavia | 7:19 a.m. Oct. 16, 2008
If these activists would realize that species like mink (particularly) are actually vermin, they might (but I doubt they think at all) think twice before they make these raids.
Releasing them brings about far more pain and terror in the ways they are killed in the wild for the minks. And then there are all the poultry farmers whose stock is decimated by the starving minks!
I don't see ALF releasing cows or chickens or lobsters. What about roach traps? Is wearing fur somehow worse (for the animals) than being eaten? The whole thing is just stupid.
Releasing them brings about far more pain and terror in the ways they are killed in the wild for the minks. And then there are all the poultry farmers whose stock is decimated by the starving minks!
I don't see ALF releasing cows or chickens or lobsters. What about roach traps? Is wearing fur somehow worse (for the animals) than being eaten? The whole thing is just stupid.
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