> Meanwhile, reports state that many of the animals who fled were killed shortly after being found, while so many minks died crossing a nearby road that a plow was enlisted to help remove the carcasses, WFMZ reported.<p>What an awful outcome. Obviously I have no love to share for the fur industry, but I can't imagine how the vandals thought this would ultimately end up saving animal lives.
This sort of activism, if it was that, is really not a good thing. Not because animals don't deserve to be free but because usually these animals can destroy the local ecosystems.<p>I remember one time people tried to free rat labs from the immunology lab at my university, not only these rats are not capable of surviving in the wild but also they actually carry lots of dangerous genes and diseases that should absolutely not be out there in the wild, because, well that's exactly what is being researched.<p>There's definitely space for bigger conversations but we should be much more careful with the way we do activism.
I like the use of the expression "vandals".<p>It is appropriate to use derogatory names for people that do stupid acts, even if these acts are for a "good" cause (e.g.: vandalizing art in museums as a protest against GW).<p>In Brazil, supporters of former president Bolsonaro are "protesting" in front of military barracks demanding an authoritarian coup by the Army to "preserve" democracy. The rest of the country just mocks them.<p>When political activism becomes so stupid we shouldn't refrain to call it stupid.
Why are we farming mink? Could we just stop with abusing animals merely for minuscule amounts of pleasure we get from using their products over alternatives?
I imagine that wild Mink are so rare that the few surviving mink will probably rebalance things more than anything else. How often do you see anything from the weasel family anymore?