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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Thousands of mink dead after activists release 38,000 from Minnesota fur farm
2017-07-20
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A Minnesota sheriff is blaming animal rights activists for releasing 38,000 mink from an Eden Valley fur farm this week, causing thousands of the domesticated animals to die in the wild.

"If they actually cared about animals they wouldn’t release thousands of mink to die out in the heat," Stearns County Sheriff Don Gudmundson said Tuesday, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.

"They are not interested in animal rights, they are interested in chaos," he said.

Dan Lang, owner of Lang Fur Farms, estimated that more than half of his animals are dead, he told the St. Cloud Times. He and a group of neighbors have spent hours rounding up the dead mink, and the live ones, he said, are now fighting among each other because they’ve been thrust into different groupings.

"We just threw mink in pens to try to get as many back as we could. And now they are killing each other," he told the St. Cloud Times. "And they’re still dying. They are still dying from heat stress."
Posted by:Fred

#13  Death by starvation is so humane.
Posted by: regular joe   2017-07-20 14:42  

#12  While the Pappy is away, the Mustelidae will play.

(sorry. poor impulse control)
Posted by: SteveS   2017-07-20 13:59  

#11  Go to your rooms (you know who you are).
Posted by: Pappy   2017-07-20 13:46  

#10  OOOps. I mean "#7"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-07-20 13:16  

#9   #& But the rate of bio-degradation.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-07-20 13:10  

#8  They could have been stole!

Fur cripes sake!
Posted by: SteveS   2017-07-20 13:01  

#7  ...lower requirements for the environmental impact study. Too many clowns dumped pythons there. Releasing more 'non-native' species into the place will require too many filings. Saving a tree if not time on paperwork.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-07-20 13:00  

#6  Not the Everglades?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-07-20 12:02  

#5  Activists should be released in the wild in the backlands of Alaska, san anything identifiable as a product of modern civilization.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-07-20 11:50  

#4  Groan, Skidmark.
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-07-20 09:32  

#3  It isn't about rights. It is about making themselves feel better through righteous indignation.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-07-20 09:13  

#2  At least they were turned loose.
They could have been stole!
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-07-20 08:03  

#1  idiots did the same thing in Lake County IL in the early 2000s.
And yeah .. they mostly died.
Posted by: 3dc   2017-07-20 00:58  

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