Years ago I recall horror stories of these types of criminals releasing thousands of mink from their pens. Domestic mink in the wild don’t do well. IIRC they start eating their own pretty quick.
The farmer (rancher??) might get a thousand back into the pens, with ten thousand dead out in the woods.
Outfits like ‘PETA’ and a lot of the other ‘animal rights’ followers don’t care very much about animals. In many cases, they know and understand very little about animals.
They care about their own egotistical ideas because believing in those ideas makes them ‘feel good’ - about themSELVES!