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2nd Animal Liberation Prisoner Held in Holland‏

Earlier this month we reported that a German woman had been arrested in Holland at a mink farm. 5,000 mink had been released from the farm. Shortly after news of the first arrest came out rumours started to emerge of a second and possible third arrest.

ELP can now report that a second woman has also been arrested and she has also been remanded into custody. For legal reasons we can't name either of the women. But e-mail letters of support can be sent to:

Anonymous Female Prisoner One

holland@die-tierbefreier.de

Anonymous Female Prisoner Two

dbf-sg@riseup.net

Both women are vegan.

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Any news on the Mink?

22.11.2009 21:26

How many have survived in the wild? Now they were being bred to die but this just seems to change the location of where they die!

Niomi Scott

"Niomi Scott"

22.11.2009 22:48

You think you're clever don't you?
Anywhere but a cage to spend life is better. Wouldn't you think "Niomi"?
Being caged for life in the first place is the crime.
The screws will pay..

Front

@ Front

23.11.2009 05:02

And what of the native species which are now going to be killed by this voracious predator? Do they not have a right to be free from invasive competitors that would not naturally occur in their habitat?

In many areas the European mink is facing extinction because of the actions of brainless AR activists releasing American mink into the wild. Believe it or not the European mink aren't going to shake hands and make peace with the Americans.

You've deliberately let a non native killer loose in a habitat where it can pretty much out compete everything going, YOU have blood on YOUR hands now.

You apply irrational logic in a delicate situation which requires a rational mind. You are no better than a logger chopping down a forest, your actions effectively have the same impact devastating the existing local ecosystem.

Pro Animal Rights, but against releasing non native species.

won't someone think of the natives?! poor little-englander mink...

23.11.2009 10:52

No, the mink farmers and those that buy/support such business have blood on their hands.

Please, don't come the "rational" argument when you spew such idiocy.

liberated mink are not a threat to wildlife

23.11.2009 11:59

Liberated mink are not threat to wildlife, I find it odd that people would rather see animals in cages for the whole of their lives instead of free to be wild. There have been very good articles written by mink experts stating that in fact it is man who is more of a threat to habitat and wild areas than the mink, we always blame the animals, whether its the grey squirrel, mink or ruddy duck.

animals are not products
freedom for all.
solidarity with all prisoners!X

sugar sue

hmmm

23.11.2009 13:21

Animal rights activists get a lot of criticism about releasing mink... Fur farmers themselves were the first to start doing this to get insurance money when the price of fur dropped in the 60's.

Disco

Don't comment on this post

23.11.2009 13:26

I would advise that people don't bother commenting on this article.
You learn all you need to know by the article itself.
There is no point in arguing with the police who have commented above, rise above the likes of Stevo and his chums at SHAC Watch and use the time you would have spent arguing on here to do something more productive in solidarity with the two prisoners.

Stevo Helped Murder Ian Tomlinson :)
Homepage: http://www.shac.net

I think you're missing the point

23.11.2009 15:18

The fact remains you cannot release non native invasive species into a delicate ecosystem. It's a recipe for disaster. Whether some farmers also did it for insurance money is not the issue at hand, you can't go releasing foreign predators whilst at the same time expecting everything to be perfectly fine. It's amounts to wanton human interference with the ecosystem, you are making a concious decision to introduce the new species, thus a concious decision to interfere with and upset the natural balance. It is hypocritical for the animal rights movement to release species into areas where they are not native.

I'm not opposed to liberations however one has to apply common sense, rather than rabidly cutting cages. If one liberates chickens from a farm for isntance they don't shove them into the woodland and say be free, they're re-homed in a place where they wont be exploited for meat or eggs so they can live out their life peacefully. The same must apply for American mink who will either die very quickly from exposure, or survive to predate upon existing species in the area.

Pro Animal Rights, but against releasing non native species.

Wildlife always moves around and changes over time

23.11.2009 17:50

The ecosystem isn't a static thing - populations of animals always go up and down, and move around geographically. Releasing a few thousand mink here and there isn't going to cause the end of the world. They will find their ecological niche. Maybe they will push out some other animals from their territory, but that's nature. If they killed everything they would starve themselves, so things will find their own level.

The real crime is imprisoning animals like this in tiny cages to go batshit insane, and then murdering them for fur coats.

Good luck to the people releasing the mink and other fur-bearing animals from their cages. Here's hoping we see more of it this year and in the future.

vegan

Assumptions

23.11.2009 18:57

You can't rescue and rehome mink - they are wild.

We don't even know the location of the mink farm, what the environment is like in the surrounding area, or how the release on mink will impact. I'm sure whoever did it, would have thought about it. We don't even know anything about the action. We don't know how many were released, whether they were taken and released in appropriate areas... we don't know anything about it, so all these comments about the negative effects of the release are just assumptions. For all we know mink could already be established in the area surrounding the farm from any the farmer has released, or any that have escaped themselves.

Jane

to vegan

24.11.2009 15:31

Please check out the work of Nigel Duncombe of Durham University before propagating the stories of fur farmers, especially when it was the fur farmers who first started releasing mink into the wild, going back as far as the 1920s (and ironically enough supported by the RSPCA until the ALF started doing it. You are jumping to unfounded assumptions, and the issue is more complicated than your simple analysis of "non-native species".

Note, i am not saying that non-native species are not an issue in general, but that such an analysis needs to be done on a species by species basis in relation to the existing flora and fauna, and in the case of mink, it is not as simple as you make out.

As someone else commented, before you get high and mighty about the animal libbers have you considered the effect of humans. How much pollution and consumption is based around a mink farm, for starters... I've been to some, and they are pretty grim ecologically, not unlike the salmon farms, full of chemicals and articifical feedstuff. You cant have it everyway.

frustrated

ner ner ner

27.11.2009 00:47

the skin trade apologists whince

so what

Stevo Helped Murder Ian Tomlinson :) made all sence

ian rip

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