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"When the law does so little to protect animals from a horrifying life of misery on fur and factory farms and in laboratories, it's not hard to understand why some people take matters into their own hands and free animals from cruel confinement and abuse," it said in an email to National Observer. The famous organization credits the ALF for providing "proof of horrific cruelty that would not have been discovered or believed otherwise," but when it comes to the subject of liberation, prefers to side with the law. While the ALF is less of an organization, and rather a name adopted by independent animal rights activists who break lab equipment, release animals, and offer sanctuary and veterinary care, their actions are neither condemned or condoned by other rights groups like PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), based in the U.S. Perhaps the most infamous example is the international Animal Liberation Front (ALF), which has single-handedly committed more than 1,000 criminal releases since the 1970s and operates in more than 30 countries worldwide. Yet despite facing criminal charges, the collective wrath of farmers, and being lumped in the same category as "eco-terrorists" and “right-wing extremists” as a “serious domestic terrorist threat” by the FBI, many animal rights activists stick to the practice of liberations. "They cannot fend for themselves in the wild, so most will die, and the few that do survive will endanger domesticated ducks or chickens in the region." "These criminals don’t think that people have a right to use animals, fine, but these are domesticated animals that have been raised on farms for more than 100 generations," said Kirk Rankin, an Ontario mink farmer and former CMBA president, in the release. fur farm gobbled up nearly 100 of baby ducks from a nearby farm in a "vampiric" serious of mini-attacks. In October 2013, more than 500 freed mink from a B.C. In addition to the premature deaths of many young mink, released predators like mink are also notorious for causing problems for other livestock. "Their newborn kits are all under two weeks old – some are only days old – they are completely dependent on their mothers for warmth and frequent feeding at this stage." The Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility."We are shocked that any person or group would commit such a cruel and irresponsible act," she said in a press statement at the time.
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Over 300 mink were released from a nearby Guelph-Eramosa farm in the summer of 2015. Nancy Daigneault, vice president of the International Fur Federation, stated in an email, “the picketers are extremists,” adding the industry and farmers have been targeted recently. “Just to have the folks who own this hellhole know that we’re here and that the pressure is going to be put on the government to acknowledge that these animals are suffering and that they are beings and they deserve rights, just like you and I,” said Sapalovski. One protester, Nicole Sapalovski, said she hopes the group’s presence will pressure the government to allow the animals to be freed in a lawful way.
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“If some people don’t want to eat meat or wear fur, wool or leather, that’s their right, but we hope they can respect those of us who make different choices,” said Hazelwood. Gary Hazelwood, executive director of Canada Mink Breeders Association, said in a press release mink receive “excellent” nutrition and care on Canadian farms. He is asking supporters to sign the group’s petition on its website or contact their local MPPs. He hopes the weekend will raise awareness of the approximately 47 fur farms in Ontario. Klimowicz said the mink are overcrowded, have piles of excrement under the cages and troughs filled with urine, which KOALA says constitutes animal cruelty. “We’ve seen undercover video footage from many fur farms around Ontario and you can see the animals are cramped in tiny wire cages.” “We’re here today to protest the Ted Parkinson Fur Farm,” said KOALA organizer Malcolm Klimowicz.
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Members of the Kitchener Ontario Animal Liberation Alliance (KOALA), as well as members of the public, held a weekend protest from May 26 to 28 at a number of farms in Ontario, seeking an end to fur farming. A group of about 15 people protested outside a fur farm on the Fourth Line in Guelph-Eramosa on May 28.