At the time of his
original arrest
Rearrested for
shoplifting in 2005
Posted on 10/09/2005 9:42:02 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Peter Daniel Young, an animal rights activist who faces federal prison for freeing thousands of mink from Midwestern fur farms, says he'd do it again, and doing time will be nothing compared to what caged animals suffer.
Young said in an interview from jail he believes he saved the minks from slavery.
"I would do it all over again," he said. "As bad as it could get (in prison), it will never be as bad as it was for those mink."
Federal prosecutors believe Young and an accomplice were acting on behalf of the Animal Liberation Front when they broke onto mink farms in Iowa, South Dakota and Wisconsin in 1997 and freed about 7,000 mink. The FBI considers groups like ALF the nation's top domestic terrorist threat.
"If saving thousands of lives makes a terrorist, then I certainly embrace the label," Young said. "I would have been just as fast to act if those cages had been filled with human beings."
Teresa Platt, executive director of Fur Commission USA, a national association of fur farmers, called Young's philosophy nonsense.
Alex Ott, owner of a fur farm Young raided in Tomahawk, WI said he treats his mink well and has every right to make a living.
"These people ... skulk around. They attack and they terrorize," Ott said.
. . . freeing thousands of mink . . .
And where are they now? Back home sitting by the fire sipping a latte?
I guess he won't be killing any roaches in his cell. Won't be smoking any, either.
"And where are they now? Back home sitting by the fire sipping a latte?" LOL!
I can account for a few of them. After the releases in 1997, the survivors went feral and bred like, well...mink! I've had them kill my chickens in the past, but not for a number of years since I upgraded the coop.
I'm sure there are a few hundred feral generations out there in the wild now, since 1997, though most probably starved to death as they were used to being fed on a schedule, or they were killed by hawks, or hit by cars.
As a small farmer myself, and coming from a farming family, IMHO, this guy is the ultimate @sshole. I see animal terrorism as no different than them coming onto anyone's property and destroying that person's livelyhood.
I work from home on my computer. What if someone came in and trashed it or stole it or corrupted it somehow? I see it as absolutely no different than how these animals rights pukes destroy anothers way of making a living.
True, and that is still an understatement.
Hehe! Thanks for the update. Will re-wire my brain.
Rearrested for
shoplifting in 2005
Guys like this must know
women who look good in fur
are laughing at them . . .
"For a few days, the roads were paved with mink. Dead ones mostly. They were mangled by dogs, withered by summer heat and run over by cars and trucks."
Sounds exactly what I thought would happen when I heard this article.
People with house pets pets they no longer want abandon then on roadsides in the country suffer the same fate.
Animals in the wild are taught by their parents how and what to hunt and eat.
You drop off such an untrained animal and you see the results.
It ain't Walt Disney's Freedom of the Wild but a slow death by hunger,the weather or lying wounded by traffic on the side of the road.
Ditto from a fellow farmer's son.
". . . and doing time will be nothing compared to what caged animals suffer."
Mink don't share cells with Bubba and his need for PETA chicken.
"Some feared the local ecosystem would be thrown off by so many new predators in the area."
Pretty ironic, isn't it? This just proves what idiots they are...never THINKING beyond 'Step One' of any plan. *Rolleyes*
Welcome to FR, BTW! :)
Even before I married into farming life nearly 15 years ago, my Dad taught me never to curse a farmer with my mouth full, LOL!
These "activists" are such clueless idiots. Hypocrites from Page One. Man, they infuriate me! I've been following this case, and I am SO happy this punk is going to jail. :)
The next step is for the IRS to pay an unplanned visit to Animal Liberation Front's accountant...
And what the heck does he think those freed minks will do?
They will be killed by other animals, by diseases, by being run over by vehicles, by starvation. They will suffer a fate worse than death to provide someone with a coat.
Did the ijits even think that far ahead?
If they had half a brain among themselves, they'd realize that "saving" any animal that is being raised for food or pelts is worthless if they don't have a plan to house and feed those animals for the remainder of the animals natural life span.
This type of action is STUPID and THOUGHTLESS and CARELESS and IDIOTIC.
The boy needs a good whipping and then he (and the organization from which he got his ideas) needs to be sent out in the woods to find those mink and return them to their rightful owners. Put a collar around his neck, send him out without clothing (after all, we have to kill cotton bushes and animals to clothe and shoe him) and give him one year to find the minks.
This type of thoughtless activity proves how ridiculous the activities of this type of individual and organization really are.
You wanna 'save' an animal, you become responsible for providing room and board until the animal dies a natural death.
STOOOOOOPID.
Listen to this one, HP!
A few years back, a bunch of local PETA Pukes "freed" veal calves from their "concentration camp-like" (their words) pens.
They toddled out into the road while calling for their mamas and many were run over and killed.
Now, I can easily stomach mink being killed, because they are vermin, but to see the dead (before their time) bodies of little calves in the road; even a heartless b-word such as myself shed a tear over THAT one. For starters, it was just horrible to see (and I butcher my own venison and chickens) and secondly, the waste of good food, not to mention the monetary loss to the farmer, was just a sad, sad shame. :(
And it proved, um...what did it prove, again? Oh, yes. That these animal rights activists are absolute MORONS! Cripes. Why can't these doorknobs just worry about spaying and neutering their housecats (because you know they all have a dozen or so, LOL!) shut down the Puppy Mills and leave the business of food and specialty animals to the experts? Yeesh!
"The next step is for the IRS to pay an unplanned visit to Animal Liberation Front's accountant..."
Yeah and use the RICO Act which allows the cops to go after the money behind the organization and THEN get a lawyer to sue the group for damages in civil court.
Shut them down for good.
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