my HEROs. Mink got to swim and see the sun for the first time in their lives. They were freed (2,400 of them )by people who wrote: Aside from their operations harming helpless animals, the Moyles have also been federally investigated for exploiting undocumented workers and trafficking endangered species. Mike Moyle, ex-mink farmer and the current Idaho House Majority Leader, has used his political position to block Idaho neighborhoods from being able to declare his family’s foul and fly- infested prisons to be public nuisances. The fur industry will no doubt propagate falsehoods regarding this act of kindness. They will claim that we are terrorists. We say that if peacefully opening cages is an act of terrorism, then the word has no meaning. It is appropriately applied to the mass imprisonment and killing of wild animals. They will claim that these mink are domesticated animals and will starve. Documentation on the success of farm-bred mink in the wild is extensive, so we will add only our experience watching these naturally aquatic animals, who had spent their entire lives in cages, head instinctively for water and begin to swim and hunt. They will claim that conditions on mink farms are humane. We ask why, then, they try only to hide those farms from the public, pushing for legislation to criminalize the taking of photographs. The mink that we freed from the Moyles lived in intensive confinement in their own waste. Their suffering was plain to the eye, and their yearning for freedom plain to the soul. They will say that our raid may inspire copycat actions. We say that it undoubtedly will. It is a glorious thing that we live in a world where individuals regularly demonstrate the ultimate act of compassion – risking their freedom for the freedom of others. They will say that we will not stop short of the complete and total end of the killing of animals for their fur. On this point we are in total agreement. We act with love in our hearts.” animalliberationfrontline/fur-farm-raiding-season-begins-2400-mink-freed-from-idaho-mink-farm/
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 06:59:44 +0000
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