17,000 minks set free in southern Sweden
Published: 4 Oct 10 14:40 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/29414/20101004/
17,000 minks escaped from a farm in Skillingaryd in southern Sweden on Monday after a lock on the animals' cage was bust open.
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The fleeing minks were spotted by a passing motorist as they ran in front of his car at 3.15am on Monday. The car driver realised what had happened and alerted the police.
"No one has left any message after them nor taken responsibility so we don't have much to go on," Kellerth said.
Kellerth said that the minks have little chance of surviving in the wild but that they could cause problems and injuries to other animals.
"We have opened a case into animal cruelty and criminal damage," he said.
"There were demonstrations against their breeding outside of the farm in the summer but I don't know of it being subjected to any previous attack."
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True, but what was awaiting them when their coats matured was equally if not more cruel (just google images of mink farms and harvesting).
A lot of the animals are alive and gasping when they skin them because sometimes the don't gas them properly (funny how its OK to gas them but when that happened to humans...)
Somehow I'm thinking their chances in the cages were not much better.
RememberAisha, there is no equivalency here between mink farming and the Holocaust. Comments of this sort are both ignorant and cruel.
Perhaps William Wallace's ghost came and set them free.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056046758
This will be an environmental disaster for years to come and huge amounts of native wildlife killed by these predators
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/desperate-hunt-after-5000-mink-released-in-donegal-14961607.html
That will let you know what sort of muppets are responsible. They are doing it everywhere.
They are an organised terrorist group.
If they are gainfully employed, they would not have the time to do and destroy someone else's business.
I wouldn't buy a mink coat, but I would rather have a mink farm than have wild minks hunted to extinction.
First of all, being a non-native species and also being a species that would be highly damaging to the local ecosystem were they to leak into that ecosystem, mink should not be farmed in Sweden. There is no reason to do so. Let them be raised on farms in places where mink live in the wild and ship their pelts to the markets that demand them.
Second, knowing that a mink farm would be a target for boneheads like PETA or other militant animal-rights groups and knowing the dangers in a massive release, the mink farmers should have had better security on the farm. They knew the risks, especially since this has happened before as pointed out in Nemesis' link. In light of this, I say the farmers should bear significant responsibility because they failed to live up to their social duty to protect us from the dangers of their work. Had this been a factory leaking chemicals into the river, the factory would have been held accountable. The threat of sabotage is one of the reasons why factories have a high level of security around them. The farmers should have invested more money and effort into securing the premises.
http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100319-25981.html
according to the numbers there the 17.000 minks freed here will need 2,8 tonnes of food a day.
i doubt these cute critters will leave anything alive around the farm...
minks can haz cheeseburger?
I guess there will need to be a (bigger) bounty on their heads now just to clean up the mess as this many minks is not good news exactly!
Send the clean up bill to PETA !
Idiots with no common sense really get me going!
this is just plain madness!
These mink will wreak havoc with the local wildlife & kill a lot more animal "mothers & her babies"
Is there anybody here who thnks it's a good thing to unleash thousands of minks into an environment unsuited to them? It would be nice to hear their point of view.
They could become a serious biological threat with so many.