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ALF claims responsibility for mink release

Ha ha! | 5:23 p.m. Sept. 22, 2008

What a bunch of idiots! Ridiculous group of fanatics!

anit-leftism | 5:48 p.m. Sept. 22, 2008

Likely a bunch of Liberal Democrats voting for Obama.
What a shame...

Anonymous | 5:51 p.m. Sept. 22, 2008

Oh I don't know, it seems reasonable to me. It's probably moraly wrong to profit on the death and suffering of others. Or does morality only count for people - who look like us - and beleive in the same myths? Hmm, probably over your head by a long way.

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Anonymous | 7:57 p.m. Sept. 22, 2008

Maybe They need to go up on animal cruelity charges for the ones that died.

love ya Utah | 9:01 p.m. Sept. 22, 2008

I love Utah, always have...but why oh why does everything have to turn back to religion and politics??? This is a bout mink and views on animal cruelty...has nothing to do with Obama or McCain. I find it funny that most other topics always have some scripture spouting church member saying all the ROTE things that the mormon-machine gives ya. In this case its politics but Id bet my left arm that the rocket scientist who made the
Obama comment is Mormon. Bet you (anti-leftism) dont REALLY...and I mean REALLY know why you are so very Republican or conservative. Way to think for yourself. Preciate ya.

cchambers | 9:59 p.m. Sept. 22, 2008

If you wouldn't kill and skin an animal with your own hands in front of your children and explain that you are killing (and yes, animals feel fear) a living creature not for food, but for a luxury item...then don't advocate it or excuse it for other people. that's the thick and thin of it. At least with leather you can say that the WHOLE animal is eaten, used for real life products...not just to look good.

However... | 12:01 a.m. Sept. 23, 2008

...if these people who released the mink actually think they are doing the animals a favor, they are not. While the mink might not end up on someone's back as a coat, they will probably end up dead under the wheels of a car, shot by someone protecting their own animals or children--mink can be very vicious, especially if cornered--or meet some other awful death. They are meat-eaters, and when raised in captivity they have no idea how to take care of themselves. I don't like mink coats, either, and I don't think animals should be raised and killed for the sole purpose of making expensive clothing. But there has to be another way to deal with this, other than setting these helpless, but potentially vicious and harmful, animals free.

Don't Agree? | 1:45 a.m. Sept. 23, 2008

What's all the blather about agreeing or not agreeing with a particular animal practice? Who asked you to agree or not? Not the farmers.

If you don't agree, don't buy a mink coat.

That's called freedom.

Breaking into someone's farm and releasing their animals?

That's called terrorism.

And it should be dealt with as such.

Environmentalist? Activists? | 5:46 a.m. Sept. 23, 2008

All these exterimist do-gooders don't have a clue. If they think life in the wild is better than life in captivity, they don't understand nature. First, turning that many predators loose will drastically upset the ecosystem. Second, nature isn't always Bambi and Thumper. Most of the time it is vicious and brutal. At least at the fur farm they don't start eating or skinning the animals while they are still alive. That's the way it is in nature most of the time.

Two wrongs | 5:53 a.m. Sept. 23, 2008

Two wrongs do not make a right. I don't agree with drinking alcohol. Drink drivers kill 75,000 innocent Americans every year, still, I don't go into their homes and pour their Bud Light down the drain. I don't go into grocery stores and destroy their beer displays. There are rules in the fur industry. If these rules are not being followed, they operators should be held accountable, just like any other criminal. It is not our duty or even our right to become eco-vigilanties.

anon | 6:58 a.m. Sept. 23, 2008

to love ya Utah | 9:01 p.m. Sept. 22, 2008

You are a perfect example of the people you complain about. What a hypocrite! You turned it back onto politics, and then you used it as an excuse to bash Mormons! ALF members are scattered throughout the country. But you make assumptions that someone who responds against Obama must be a Mormon. News Flash: there are people against Obama everywhere, just as there are those against McCain. People need to learn to stick to the topic--and you are included in this!

Ernest T. Bass | 7:47 a.m. Sept. 23, 2008

Probably a bunch of right-wingers who think Bush is smart.

Dumbies | 8:18 a.m. Sept. 23, 2008

If you really cared about the mink, your plan was pretty dumb...release the mink into a wonderful wetland - no food, little water, and a bunch of cars to run them over. Hypocrisy at it's worst - try bringing a truck with you next time to "save the mink."

Phoebe | 9:22 a.m. Sept. 23, 2008

For the life of me, I can't see how "releasing" the minks does them any favors. If these activists/criminals really wanted to help the animals, why didn't they steal them and take care of them somewhere else, instead of leaving them to starve?

Re: Phoebe | 9:41 a.m. Sept. 23, 2008

Because then they would have to take responsibility for them. Having worked with mink I can tell you they are definitely not cuddly pets like ferrets. Besides, who can care for several thousand mink in a VW van or studio apartment?

In their warped minds it's better to let them die in the wild than allow them to be used to make fur coats.

Agree with poster @ 9:41am | 4:04 p.m. Sept. 23, 2008

I have also worked with mink, feeding, watering, and helping to pelt in the late Fall. They are beautiful, but vicious, and would just as soon bite the hand that feeds it as not. I hope no one gets hurt by the foolishness of these "activists". If a child tries to pick one up or pet it, he or she will find out this is not a cuddly potential pet, for sure! There has to be another way to work this out.

And to "Two Wrongs" @ 5:53am (boy, you were up early), I agree with you. While we might not like the idea of raising animals for the sole purpose of using them for clothing, no one has the right to just destroy another person's livelihood. They should be prosecuted accordingly.

To "Love ya Utah," what on earth do your comments have to do with ANYTHING about this article?

Extremists 1, animals 0 again | 7:48 a.m. Sept. 24, 2008

Here is a bunch of "do gooders", or so they think. About 25 in a 1000 may make the winter, probably fewer. The rest will starve and be fertilizer by spring, or not quite make it across the street.
I am so amazed by their brilliance, saying they are against animal cruelity and then being so cruel to release 1000's of critters who are doomed to starve to death.
Please, by all means, pat yourselves on the back and think that you are doing wonderful things in the world. I mean it has to be so much more comforting for the mink to starve to death - instead of death coming quickly.
'Releasing mink into the wild, human infested world - splendid. Knowing most will certainly die of starvation - beautiful. Seeing an extremist pick up and love a mink - priceless' Please get a picture for me. Teeth sunk into the hands of an extremist... if only I had one.

Former CSI | 9:48 a.m. Sept. 24, 2008

Remember when they almost killed a security guard doing this in the late 90's in Weber County? How far will they go this time? If you know these people turn them in before someone gets seriously hurt.

anom | 12:35 p.m. Sept. 24, 2008

Want to you want to bet that they were wearing leather shoes, belts and wallets. That is the skin of an animal, no difference. these people are dumber than rocks

Anonymous | 12:54 p.m. Sept. 24, 2008

Animal Liberation Front? Oh, I thought from the headline this article was about that alien on TV in the '80s. Too bad--that would have been cool!

ALF | 3:23 p.m. Sept. 24, 2008

I saw an official from ALF admiting responsibility for this travisty. We all eat and wear products or byproducts from animals.
My question is why can't we arrest the ALF spokesperson on tv for aiding and abeting criminal acts. If the ALF claims responsibility, let them pay for the damage.

Anonymous | 4:58 p.m. Sept. 24, 2008

Not all animals are useful for food.

Some are useful for oil and fur.

These animals are just being used for what God intended them for.

Alf rather than freeing these animal should be thanking GOd that if ever run out of foriegn oil we mink fur to keep us warm.

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