US Edition2,000 mink released from Iowa farm in what trade group calls ‘terrorist act’
More than 60% of the 2,000 mink released from an Iowa farm have been recovered as the farmer uses live traps to prevent further wildlife attacks, officials said.
- Two thousand mink were released from an Iowa farm by intruders, in what a trade group called a 'terrorist act' under federal law.
- Just over 60% of the mink had been recovered by Friday, but without access to food and shelter, the majority of unrecovered mink will likely die.
- The Animal Legal Defense Fund said mink farms crowd animals in inhumane and unsanitary cages that can contribute to the spread of disease, and the group supports legislation to end mink farming in the U.S.
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2,000 mink released from Iowa farm in what trade group calls ‘terrorist act’
By JACK DURA, Associated Press One or more intruders broke into an Iowa mink farm and released 2,000 of the furbearing animals in what a trade group called a “terrorist act” under federal law. Sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning, fencing was cut and pens and nest boxes were destroyed to release the mink, which are raised for their pelts, Fur Commission USA said. The farm is near Woodbine, Iowa, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) west…
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2,000 mink released from Iowa farm in what trade group calls 'terrorist act'
An Iowa farmer is looking for hundreds of mink released in a break-in. A trade group says as of Friday morning that most of the 2,000 mink had been recovered.
More info. on Woodbine mink farm incident « KJAN | Radio Atlantic, IA – AM 1220
(Radio Iowa) – In an update to an earlier report, a spokesman for the trade group called Fur Commission U-S-A now says around two-thousand mink were released into the wild after fences were cut down cut down and pens damaged at a mink farm near Woodbine Monday night. The spokesman says about 60 percent of the animals were recovered by the farmer. The farmer is also involved in conservation programs that support national wildlife repopulation eff…
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