We were in Manhattan one winter day, and it was one of the days PETAettes were throwing red paint/*blood* on any women wearing mink coats on Fifth Avenue. It was very bizarre. The poor cops were arresting the perps as fast as they could.
Posted on 07/25/2015 2:05:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Two animal-rights activists have been charged in California with terrorizing the fur industry during cross-country road trips — including in Minnesota — two years ago in which they released about 5,740 mink from fur farms and vandalized the homes and businesses of operators.
The October 2013 spree left losses in Minnesota, the nation’s fifth-largest mink producer, and neighboring Wisconsin. Hundreds of mink were set loose from a southeastern Minnesota ranch, just days after Wisconsin fur farm owners scrambled to catch their own mink with fishing nets following a similar action that they called “devastating” to their operations.
The four-generation Myhre ranch east of Grand Meadow, Minn., was targeted in the 2013 attack. Workers, friends and fellow farmers helped retrieve about 450 animals. Farmers said escaped mink tend to either fail to survive or get sick from their time in the wild. Each mink is worth about $100, authorities said after the 2013 incidents.
In Friday’s arrests, 31-year-old Joseph Brian Buddenberg and 28-year-old Nicole Juanita Kissane, of Oakland, Calif., were apprehended in Oakland by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.
A federal grand jury indictment unsealed Friday says they caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage during 40,000 miles of cross-country trips over the summer of 2013.
Buddenberg and Kissane are under house arrest with electronic monitoring until a scheduled court date Tuesday.
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Sounds like it have something to do with the current fashion debate about women letting their armpit hair grow.
LOL and ick!
Wasn’t there an incident a few years back when some libs did this and the minks all ran across a highway and were crushed by traffic?
I don’t know, but it’s entirely possible that it happened and I missed it.
We were in Manhattan one winter day, and it was one of the days PETAettes were throwing red paint/*blood* on any women wearing mink coats on Fifth Avenue. It was very bizarre. The poor cops were arresting the perps as fast as they could.
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