{"id":2531,"date":"2013-10-30T07:28:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2013-11-01T07:30:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T15:30:59","slug":"animal-liberation-front-boasts-of-success-in-ohio-mink-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2013\/10\/30\/animal-liberation-front-boasts-of-success-in-ohio-mink-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Liberation Front Boasts of Success in Ohio Mink Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Jesse Hathaway<\/a><\/small>
\nMedia Trackers<\/p>\n

A recent Animal Liberation Front (ALF) announcement of a nighttime raid on a mink farm in Van Wert, Ohio has been disputed by the business\u2019s management, who have not filed a police report in the matter. According to ALF and an affiliated extremist group, the farm is covering up activists\u2019 success.<\/p>\n

\"Aerial<\/a>

Aerial photograph of Lion Farms in Van Wert<\/p><\/div>\n

On September 30, the\u00a0North American Animal Liberation Press Office (NAALPO) shared an anonymous report from a local ALF cell<\/a>, claiming that between 150 and 300 animals had been released from a \u201cmassive mink farm\u201d in Van Wert in a September 29 raid.<\/p>\n

ALF was\u00a0founded in the 1970s<\/a>,\u00a0devoted to using \u00a0\u201ddirect action against animal abuse in the form of rescuing animals and causing financial loss to animal exploiters, usually through the damage and destruction of property.\u201d NAALPO is\u00a0a non-profit organization founded in the United states in 1994.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018The souls of the tortured dead cry out for justice. The cry of the living is for freedom. We can create that justice. We can deliver that freedom,\u2019\u201d the anonymous ALF author wrote, quoting convicted British eco-terrorist Barry Horne<\/a>. \u201c\u2018The animals have no one but us. We will not fail them.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Media Trackers spoke with \u201cTom,\u201d who identified himself as an administrator at the Van Wert Lion Farms USA facility. Tom described as a \u201crumor\u201d what ALF and its marketing affiliate bill as a successful operation, and he declined to give details.<\/p>\n

Tom noted that \u201ca mink can get out when we don\u2019t close the gate\u201d and speculated that a neighbor may have assumed multiple animals had been freed by ALF or some other group.<\/p>\n

If nothing else, he said the supposed ALF raid was \u201ca warning\u201d his business would respond to with increased caution.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, we have to be careful. We will be careful now, from now on,\u201d the Lion Farms USA administrator told Media Trackers.<\/p>\n

NAALPO spokesman William Hazlitt, however, suggested to Media Trackers that the business and local authorities were likely covering up the \u201cdirect action\u201d by ALF in order to save face.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would venture to say that it did occur, and that the fur farmer is probably hiding that fact, because he doesn\u2019t want to attract any further attention,\u201d Hazlitt said.<\/p>\n

A dispatcher for the Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed that the office had heard rumors of an attack on Lion Farms USA, but had no record of any crime reports from the farm\u2019s address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Jesse Hathaway Media Trackers A recent Animal Liberation Front (ALF) announcement of a nighttime raid on a mink farm in Van Wert, Ohio has been disputed by the business\u2019s management, who have not filed a police report in the matter. According to ALF and an affiliated extremist group, the farm is covering up activists\u2019 … <\/p>\n

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