Mistaken identity: ALF confuses ferrets for mink, attacks farm

HOWARD LAKE, MN: In an apparent case of mistaken identity, the FBI-designated domestic terrorist group known as the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) admitted guilt for attacking what they thought was a mink farm, destroying breeding records, opening pens and scattering nesting boxes filled with animals nursing their kits. However, the animals involved were ferrets raised for pets, not mink raised for pelts.

The raid was discovered early on the morning of Saturday, Apr. 29, when the farmer went to feed the ferrets, most of which remained placidly in their nesting boxes nursing their young kits.

The Latzig Farm, which has raised mink in the past but none this year, has raised pet ferrets for 50 years and currently has about 200 breeding females.

On May 1, the North American Animal Liberation Press Office issued a press release commenting on another press release reportedly issued by the ALF. The ALF press release, which closed with "Let the third and final part of Operation Bite Back commence! For Absolute Liberation, the A.L.F.", stated that the crime was dedicated to Peter Young who is serving time for similar crimes.

The statement threatened, "To all of those who smirk at the fate of Peter and other captured activists, remember this: we have broken, closed, and burnt down more of your farms, more or your labs, and more of your buisness [sic] than you have been able to capture activists. ... [T]his is the last warning: close down your buisnesses [sic], or with boltcutters, fire, and storm, we'll do it for you."

Farmer Latzig reported that while most of the ferrets stayed in their pens and nesting boxes, it is springtime on the farm and virtually all the females have litters in need of continuous care from their mothers. About a dozen kits died as a result of the raid.

FCUSA's executive director Teresa Platt, who represents mink farmers, commented, "Obviously we have a handful of extremists on an eco-terrorism road trip. Everyone should tighten their Neighborhood Watch programs and report anything suspicious to law enforcement."

See also:

FCUSA Press Kit Special Feature: Safe Farms Campaign

Chronology of animal extremist / eco-terror crimes

For further information contact: Teresa Platt, Executive Director, Fur Commission USA, PMB 506, 826 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA 92118-2698 USA, (619) 575-0139, (619) 272-2467/fax, furfarmers@aol.com, www.furcommission.com.

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