ALF & ELF ISSUE JOINT CLAIM FOR MINK FARM ACTION IN PENNSYLVANIA - THREE OTHER ACTIONS ALSO CLAIMED IN PA. and NY. - Land Use Issues at Off-Road.com for December 2002 - - Off-Road.com
ALF & ELF ISSUE JOINT CLAIM FOR MINK FARM ACTION IN PENNSYLVANIA - THREE OTHER ACTIONS ALSO CLAIMED IN PA. and NY. - Land Use Issues at Off-Road.com for December 2002
Publish date: Dec 1, 2002 By:ORC STAFF Source: Off-Road.com
ALF &
ELF ISSUE JOINT CLAIM FOR MINK FARM ACTION IN PENNSYLVANIA - THREE
OTHER ACTIONS ALSO CLAIMED IN PA. and NY.
THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS
RELEASE FROM THE RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS EARTH LIBERATION
FRONT AND ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT. IT TELLS THEIR SIDE OF THE
STORY, SO READ IT FOR THE INFORMATION IT CONTAINS, NOT IN THE
SPIRIT IN WHICH IT WAS WRITTEN.
Frontline Information Service
12/02/02
The following communiques were received by the North American Earth
Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front Press Offices on
Monday, December 2nd. The first communique is joint-issued by the
ALF and ELF cells which carried out the Harborcreek fire at the
Mindek Brothers Fur Farm last week. Following that are claims for 3
separate actions involving different ELF and ALF cells. For further
information contact:
North American - A.L.F. Press Office
Contact: David Barbarash
E-mail: naalfpo@tao.ca
Phone: 250-703-6312 Email inquiries can also be directed to the ELF
Press Office at elfpress@tao.ca. Begin communique
At 2:00 AM on November 26, 2002, anonymous cells of the A.L.F. and
the E.L.F. visited the Mindek Brothers Fur Farm (4200 Shannon Road)
in Harborcreek, Pennsylvania. Before disappearing into the night, a
large fire was set which completely destroyed the farms feed barn
and it's contents, causing extensive financial loss. The A.L.F. is
also claiming responsibility for releasing 200 breeding mink in May
and 50+ in September from the same farm. Working together, cells
from A.L.F. & E.L.F. demolished this feed facility due to it's
role in the systematic torture and killing of thousands of innocent
creatures yearly - animals which possess the same complex
emotional/physiological traits as loved household pets, yet are
denied all reasonable consideration and confined to a miserable
"existence" in tiny wire cages hardly large enough to turn around
in. Imprisoned in fur factories, these solitary creatures are
forced to endure intensive confinement for the entirety of their
lives, next to, or not uncommonly, packed into the same excrement
and disease laden cages as their doomed relatives. In their natural
state, these animals maintain a vast territory encompassing several
miles. However, on fur farms such as this one, most of these
semi-aquatic animals "enjoy" less than 24 inches of space, living
on chicken wire, exposed to incredible levels of disease,
cannibalism, and weather extremes. With what is essentially still a
wild animal, these squalid conditions produce a perpetual state of
chronic distress, unimaginable to human beings. This stress leads
to severe psychosomatic illness, causing disturbing behaviors like
self-mutilation, cannibalism, and incessant pacing and scratching
in attempts to escape from their prison. After experiencing the
blistering heat, filth, intensive confinement, and other amenities
of the mink shed for half of a year, they are either gassed,
electrocuted, or have their necks snapped. If they are genetically
superior, they often stay on the ranch indefinitely in such
conditions, only to be killed in the same manner when they lose
their usefulness. These cells have witnessed all of these things
and more just as disturbing, first hand at this farm, and feel that
they must pose this question to the public. Would this deplorable
situation be allowed to continue if the animals happened to be
cats, or puppies perhaps, rather than their canine relative the
North American Mink? Clearly, it would not. Brutality is brutality
- these animals are no less deserving of basic "rights" than the
animals we call our friends, and the law protects as such. Thus it
is, in the face of this glaring hypocrisy, with their very real
suffering in mind, that we take the justice and mercy that the law
fails to provide into our own hands, and provide it for those who
cannot act in their own defense. The economic value of a dead body
or a frivolous luxury item can not be compared to the inherent
value of a life - thus unnecessary killing is absolutely unjust.
This has been recognized by much of the rest of the world, and in
multiple cases, fur farming has been completely banned by other
"first-world" governments. It is time for the worlds most
accomplished and proven terrorist, the United States, to respond
and follow suit. If it does not, this inexorable struggle on behalf
of innocent life will continue. ***** The E.L.F. took part in this
action on behalf of the Earth, due to the targets extreme pollution
of surrounding streams and groundwater with excrement and offal
runoff. The fur trade's co-dependant relationship with the
ecological nightmare of factory farming and other such nefarious
forms of animal agriculture alone, completely necessitate our
action in defense of life on Earth. If the owners of the destroyed
facility wish to be left alone, they should permanently close their
operation, providing clear proof that they have done so. If this is
done immediately, and this communique is released to the public
UNALTERED, individual members from each of the cells responsible
for this action will turn themselves in. If this is not done, the
rest of the mink ranch WILL be demolished. Other components of the
mink ranch operation may also be targeted. In defense of life,
A.L.F. / E.L.F.
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In June of 2002, another anonymous cell visited the Lawrence Dana
Fox Ranch in Erie, PA (9129 Station Road). Breeding information was
removed and the entire breeding stock was released. None of the
foxes were recovered.
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Additionally, the A.L.F. is claiming responsibility for releasing
dozens of breeding stock mink and destroying breeding information
at the Main Mink Ranch (RR 2/Route 60) in Gerry, NY. in September.
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On behalf of another anonymous cell of the Earth Liberation Front,
we are also claiming responsibility for the destruction of two GMO
corn test/demonstration crops in northwestern Pennsylvania. Both
crops (BT and Roundup-Ready) were destroyed beyond usefulness, and
kept from producing seed for future planting. The proliferation of
Genetically Modified Organisms, and the increased deployment of
toxic pesticides in our bioregion presents an unrivaled threat to
the biological integrity and diversity of our ecosystem, and has
begun to be met with appropriate resistance. ANY GMO/GE crops
planted in this area from this day forth may be targeted by
eco-activists. end communique
The North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office and the
Animal Liberation Front Press Office are legal, above-ground news
services dedicated to exposing the political and social motives
behind the covert direct actions of the underground Earth
Liberation Front & Animal Liberation Front.
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