{"id":15678,"date":"2025-08-28T09:12:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=15678"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:15:01","slug":"press-officer-joseph-buddenberg-relives-liberation-at-conrad-mink-farm-12-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2025\/08\/28\/press-officer-joseph-buddenberg-relives-liberation-at-conrad-mink-farm-12-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Officer Joseph Buddenberg Relives Liberation at Conrad Mink Farm 12 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ConradMinkFarm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15679\" src=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ConradMinkFarm-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ConradMinkFarm-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ConradMinkFarm.jpg 686w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a>This is one of the many sheds at the Conrad Mink Farm in Keota, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve years ago today, I parked my car in a nearby cornfield and then liberated over 500 mink from Conrad.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been on nearly a hundred fur farms. All are abhorrent, every single one a desecration of nature.<\/p>\n<p>This is still the most haunting fur farm I&#8217;ve ever seen. To this day, I have nightmares about this place. I saw mink crammed four to a cage. Wild animals stacked on top of each other, trying desperately to escape.<\/p>\n<p>After opening hundreds of cages and watching nearly 550 mink escape the property to begin new lives, it was time to leave for another fur farm.<\/p>\n<p>I jogged back to my vehicle. A mink followed me. She was mutilated and I knew she wasn&#8217;t going to make it. She stood at my feet and stared up at me. This was the moment I realized I was going to prison. I made a promise to her that I would do everything I possibly could to destroy the fur industry. I would not stop raiding fur farms until I was captured and caged myself.<\/p>\n<p>This farm haunted me so much that I returned a few weeks later intending to open every cage and hopefully shut them down. I set off the newly-installed motion alarms and I was forced to flee.<\/p>\n<p>As the fur industry approaches collapse, I have never regretted or rescinded my promise. And with tens of thousands of animals liberated from fur farms in the years since, many more are making the same promise I did. Fur farmers will never experience another peaceful killing season again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the many sheds at the Conrad Mink Farm in Keota, Iowa. Twelve years ago today, I parked my car in a nearby cornfield and then liberated over 500 mink from Conrad. I&#8217;ve been on nearly a hundred fur farms. All are abhorrent, every single one a desecration of nature. 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