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Mink Horde Ravages Countryside

Posted by samzenpus on from the fur-kills dept.

Police in Frankenförde, Germany suspect animal activists are responsible for releasing 4,000 minks from a farm and into the wilderness. Since gaining their freedom the minks have eaten everything in their path including local farm fowl, wild birds and other small animals. Farm owner Alfons Grosser says the minks will eat about a ton of food every few days. The German nature protection association (NABU) has declared the marauding minks an environmental catastrophe.

9 comments

  1. Oh... by O('_')O_Bush · · Score: 1

    ...the irony...

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  2. Aww by RealErmine · · Score: 2, Funny

    This has to be the cutest ravaging horde in European history.

    I'm sure Japan has this beat, though.

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  3. Parallelism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I think the activists may have intended the environmental impact as a way of underlining the strain massive numbers of a single species puts on an ecosystem.

    1. Re:Parallelism by Rogue+Haggis+Landing · · Score: 1

      I think the activists may have intended the environmental impact as a way of underlining the strain massive numbers of a single species puts on an ecosystem.

      No, what we're seeing is that an animal rights activist is not the same thing as an environmentalist. The activists can't claim to be surprised by what's happened, because the exact same thing has happened before.

    2. Re:Parallelism by operagost · · Score: 1

      That's like a priest molesting a bunch of young boys to increase awareness of child sexual abuse.

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    3. Re:Parallelism by tecnico.hitos · · Score: 1

      I think it wasn't well thought out. This is a common problem regarding human interactions with nature. This is one of the main reason why we have so many environmental problems.

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    4. Re:Parallelism by RockDoctor · · Score: 1

      I think the activists may have intended the environmental impact as a way of underlining the strain massive numbers of a single species puts on an ecosystem.

      Extremely unlikely ; to do so would be profoundly immoral, and despite the rantings of the speciesist majority, most people who end up getting active in animal rights have actually thought about the morality of what they choose to do. Which is why they choose to do it.

      While there are a small number of nutters in the movement (any movement), most people involved are actually sane and thoughtful. So I'd expect this was the result of a cockup, not a conspiracy.

      Back in the day when I was involved in the animal rights movement, in the 1980s, we were well aware of this problem. Which was why we didn't do that sort of thing. Because we knew that it would be counter-productive. If we wanted to stop the fur trade (which we did), then it's far simple and more effective to attack the demand for the product. We nearly succeeded too, just a relatively small number of dumb-fuck bimbos and fashionistas who're resurrected it in the last decade or so.

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    5. Re:Parallelism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Stfu idiot moralfags, there is noting worng about using fur.

  4. Someone should... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    unleash a horde of badgers and wolverines into the homes of said animal right activists. Give them a proper understanding of how things go in nature.