Last week I wrote about the Animal Liberation Front vandalizing and releasing animals at two farms in Iowa. The activists weren’t finished with the two farms, however, and went back and hit one of the farms again.
The first time around, ALF activists released about 1,600 mink from the farm of Scott Nelson on October 16. Nelson had managed to round up about 600 of the animals, before activists once again invaded his farm on October 23 and released the recaptured animals.
An ALF press released said the activists would keep returning to the farm until they “close the place down, and ALF spokesperson David Barbarash said,
These people are quite serious. Fur farms have gone out of business in the past as a result of ALF raids, and I have no doubt they will put this mink prison out of business as well.”
Source:
Ellsworth fur farm raided second time in one week. Frontline Information Service, Press Release, October 23, 2001.
Mink sprung again; farm near failure. Staci Hupp. Iowa Register, October 24, 2001.