Des milliers de visons libérés d'élevages espagnols

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Des milliers de visons libérés d'élevages espagnols

AP | 15.10.06 | 16:57


MADRID (AP) -- Des milliers de visons ont été libérés de trois élevages en Galice, a annoncé dimanche la police espagnole qui soupçonne des défenseurs des droits des animaux d'être derrière ces opérations nocturnes "très bien planifiées".
A Muros, environ 5.000 visons ont été libérés de leurs cages, et 2.000 ont réussi à sortir de l'élevage. Les intrus avaient placé des planches contre les murs pour aider les animaux à les franchir et avaient même placé des poissons à l'extérieur de l'élevage pour attirer les visons à l'extérieur, a expliqué Maria Dolores Sendon, de la police locale. "Ce n'était pas une farce", a-t-elle souligné dans un entretien téléphonique. "C'était très bien planifié".
A Oza dos Rios, les cages d'environ 11.000 visons ont été ouvertes et environ la moitié de ces bêtes à fourrure ont réussi à prendre la poudre d'escampette, a rapporté Charo Carrillo, la propriétaire de l'élevage.
Les intrus ont tenté d'abattre les murs pour faciliter l'évasion des visons, en vain. Ils ont alors arraché les portes et les ont utilisées comme rampes d'accès -ou plutôt de sortie- pour les animaux, a-t-elle expliqué à l'agence espagnole Efe.
D'après Charo Carrillo, la plupart des visons libérés vont probablement mourir de faim d'ici quelques jours. Elevés en captivité, ces petits mammifères sont incapables de pêcher ou de chasser, a-t-elle rappelé. AP
http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/europe/20061015.FAP8235e.html?idfx=RSS_europe

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Spanish ALF strikes a fourth fur farm in two months

08/11/06

Another fur farm has been targeted by ALF activists in Galicia, Spain, securing the initial release of an estimated 1500 American mink on Saturday, 4th November. The farm, located in Damil, Xinzo de Limia (province of Ourense), has been in operation for 20 years.

According to the activists, the action was carried out in memory of Barry Horne, a British animal rights activist who died while on a hunger strike in prison 5 years ago.

A communiqué sent out by the activists to Accion Vegana states, "During the night of the 5th of November, we wanted to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Barry`s death by opening every cage of a mink farm located in Damil, Xinzo da Lima (Ourense). More than 2000 minks could enjoy for first time freedom, after being kept all their lives in a cage.

This action has been carried out a few days before they were massacred to take their fur."

According to media sources, activists smashed two holes in a perimeter wall during the late evening to create an escape route for the mink. Most of the mink, however, stayed within the property's boundaries. It is typical for mink who have been bred and raised in cages and have never even felt grass or soil to become confused and not travel very far when they are suddenly given an opportunity to be free. It is unclear how many of the animals have been recaptured.

The farm's owners did not become aware of the liberation until 5:00am Sunday morning, when a neighbour discovered about 30 of the animals on his property while on his way to his chicken houses.

"As I walked to the chicken shelters I saw what I thought was a cat at first, but as I got closer I saw another 20 animals. The incident in A Coruña immediately came to my mind. I knew someone had attacked the mink farm," commented José Rodríguez, who owns the property adjacent to the mink farm. Mr Rodríguez called police after realising the animals were minks.

A spokesperson for the local Guardia Civil (police) has said that an investigation is underway to determine, among other things, if the same persons responsible for this raid were also participants in some of the other raids that took place in Oza Dos Ríos, Muros, and Negreira in October and in A Coruña in July 2005. Galicia is a region of international importance for the fur industry, and it has been speculated that the recent raids with no arrests might encourage other activists to take similar actions. Police are searching animal rights websites for images and articles that may give clues as to who was responsible for any of these raids.

It is rumoured that owners José Luis Pérez and Vicenta Carrera will close down the farm, as the liberation has caused the breeding system to collapse. The couple have been involved in breeding and killing mink for their pelts for most of their lives and their only daughter has decided not to continue the family business.

While local media and mainstream conservationist organisations have condemned the action, this liberation, along with other similar actions in Galicia last month has served to attract scrutiny of the fur industry by ordinary citizens and has encouraged conservationists and government leaders in the region of Asturias, near Ourense, to call for a ban on fur farms, citing the various threats to the local environment by the pollution caused by fur farms as well as the introduction of non-native species to the wild.



www.arkangelweb.org/international/spain/20061108anotherfurraid.php

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Je ne sais pas trop quoi penser de ces libérations d'animaux à fourrure... Comment ces animaux peuvent-ils survivre alors qu'ils n'ont jamais appris à se nourrir ? Bien sûr, une action comme celle-là sert à affaiblir l'industrie et donne aux animaux une petite chance de s'en sortir, chance qu'ils n'auraient certainement pas eu s'ils étaient restés enfermés dans leurs cages, mais elle est si minime...

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Il y a eu un article après le premier raid en espagne disant que 70% des 4 550 auraient été retrouvés morts et qu'il en restait environ 2000 dans la nature.

Ils ont été libérés dans la nuit du 15 au 16 oct et le 16 plus de 3000 seraient déjà morts ?!!! Je trouve ça très rapide et ça me rappelle cet article de Gary Yourofsky (je poste un extrait Plus bas)

C’est sûr qu’il y en a qui survivent (mais dans quelle proportion ?) Les espèces « invasives » sont dbien es animaux d’élevages lâchés ou évadés. Mais c’est sûr aussi que les carnivores qui arrivent à survivre le font au dépend d’autres animaux.

Comment peser le positif de ce type d’action ? J’imagine que pour que le résultat puisse être considéré comme positif, il faudrait effectivement que l’éleveur ne puisse pas s’en relever . Donc, je suppose, qu’il faudrait plusieurs actions de sabotage et de libération d’affilé sur un même élevage pour atteindre ce but. Et il faudrait qu’il y ait suffisamment d’actions de ce type pour obtenir un impact sur l’ensemble de l’industrie de la fourrure d‘une région ou d‘un pays. (en plus, vaudrait mieux aussi connaître bien les milieux dans lesquels les animaux sont relachés, certains doivent endroits être plus propice que d'autres)
Bref, ça supposerait un mouvement de grande envergure et hyper organisé, ce que n'est pas l’ALF .

Alors, bon, c’est vrai qu’il vaudrait mieux libérer des animaux qui peuvent être recueillis.


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Let Them Read Lies


I believe one main reason why the ALF does not yet have broad public support is because of the lies spewed by animal exploiters and the distortions reported and perpetuated by the mass media. Sadly, animal-killers and their supporters will go to any length to deceive and mislead the public into believing that they are the victims and not the animals. Having inside knowledge of what animal liberation entails, let me give an example of how the propaganda machines work.

On April 31 1997, I was part of a mink liberation effort at the Eberts Fur Farm in Blenheim, Ontario. We released 1,542 mink from their cages, but were apprehended shortly thereafter. The media reported four lies that are typically issued by the fur industry after liberations:

(1) the mink froze to death after freedom;

(2) the mink starved to death overnight after freedom;

(3) the mink caught pneumonia and became stressed out after freedom;

(4) the mink were run over by cars on rural roads at three in the morning after freedom.


Let's look at the facts.

(1) Mink are clothed in natural fur coats which make it impossible to freeze to death especially during the pleasant month of April, which was when my Ontario raid took place.


(2) It takes several weeks for mink to starve to death. It cannot happen overnight. In fact, authorities involved in the Ontario mink liberation stated that the liberated mink raided a nearby chicken farm for food, incontrovertibly exposing the starvation lie. As for the chickens, my heart goes out to them. But my enmity is still enflamed by the 250 million Americans who kill and eat 9 billion chickens to satisfy their meat-addictions. If humans didn't enslave chickens, mink wouldn't raid chicken farms. If humans didn't enslave mink, the ALF wouldn't raid mink farms.

On rare occasions, some people claim that mink attack companion dogs or cats. I have yet to see any proof of this happening, though. Not one photo of a dead body or a pile of canine or feline bones. So, I believe this is another ploy to divert attention from the real victims; the mink. Even if the mink did attack a dog or a cat, many times dogs attack cats, cats attack birds, and so on. This just proves two other points. In the last 100 years of mink farming, not one wild gene has been bred out of these animals. And after thousands of years of dog and cat domestication, they, too, still possess their wild genes. Being raised in captivity in no way impedes an animals' chance of surviving in the wild.

It should be noted that in the late 90s after the Frye Fur Farm in Illinois was raided - and thousands of mink were given a chance to escape - the fur industry issued a press release claiming how much the Fryes loved and cared for their mink. The release stated the Fryes routinely picked up and played with the mink. Yet, across the waters in England that same year, a liberation of 10,000 mink took place. That release stated that everyone should hide their dogs and cats and children because the mink were vicious animals who would attack and eat everything in sight. Isn't it remarkable that Illinois mink are sweet and cuddly, yet English mink are rapacious and vicious?

The fur industry's public relations people are masters of doublespeak and thereby hide their atrocities from public view. It is obvious that the fur industry can't even get their lies straight. And that's because one lie leads to another.


(3) Mink do not spontaneously contract pneumonia or stress when they are not in cages. Being kept in a cage for your entire life causes stress and neurosis. Freedom is the cure for caged-induced stress and neurosis.


(4) There are no cars on rural roads at three in the morning except for those of fur farmers and police who are trying to recapture the liberated mink. If they backed off and let the mink go, rarely would there be a mink-car casualty.

The fur industry knows that if people were aware of the five methods of death used on mink, foxes and chinchillas, virtually no one would buy a fur coat. The anal electrocutions, genital electrocutions, gassings, neck-breakings and toxic chemical injections are purely evil. So, the fur industry's spin doctors have devised some glittering propaganda in order to divert attention from the heinous methods of death, and the prejudiced media are all-too happy to report them uncritically. The industry and media conspire in an attempt to make animal liberations appear foolish and describe the actions as creating more harm than good.

Any wildlife biologist or veterinarian who is not associated with the fur industry or does not own a fur coat will admit that mink and foxes are wild animals who will undoubtedly survive after being set free. They also will admit that no amount of genetic breeding can take away animals' innate, instinctive survival mechanisms. And let me be perfectly clear: Freedom does not cause death! Hunters, meat-eaters, fur-wearers, leather-lovers and animal-experimenters cause death!

According to the fur industry, 400 mink instantly died after my Easter Sunday raid. Yet on my request, the lawyers asked them to provide proof of the purported 400 dead mink. They were asked to do so by either bringing in photos, dead bodies or testifying under oath. They declined all offers.
Not surprisingly, the death toll quickly descended from 400 to 300 to 200 to 100 to 12. Subsequently, during my three-day trial when I was convicted and sentenced to six months in prison, the furriers brought in photographs of two dead mink who allegedly died the night of the raid.

Now, I did not believe the authenticity of the photos, but for argument's sake, let's say that two mink were run over by the cars of the fur farmers who were trying to recapture the freed mink. Those two deaths are unfortunate. But every mink in the concentration camp was going to die. Opening the cages was the only chance any of them had. The act was justified.

The job of an ALF activist is not to guarantee safety and freedom, but to give incarcerated animals an opportunity to live in freedom. Unfortunately, 1,000 mink were recaptured because they never found the holes in the fence in order to make it across the street to the luscious miles of fields. (According to some authorities who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the official numbers of the Ontario raid were 1,542 released, 1,000 recaptured, 540 escaped and two dead.)

However, of the 1,000 recaptured mink who never made it off the grounds through the cut fence-holes, the best news was 70-80 percent of the pregnant ones miscarried their fetuses. The animal rights community does not want animals bred into enslavement. A miscarriage is infinitely more humane than a lifetime of imprisonment, horror and eventual murder.

It's truly disheartening when the media and a majority of society get so upset when enslaved, tortured and soon-to-be-murdered animals are liberated. Yet, these same individuals don't get upset when enslaved, tortured and soon-to-be-murdered animals -- who spend their pathetic lives inhaling the fumes of their own excrement -- are gassed, anally electrocuted, genitally electrocuted, injected with toxins or have their necks broken manually.

Taking statements without questioning the source is contemptible. Why would responsible journalists heed the words of the police, who are experts at manipulation, and abject furriers, who collectively murder 40 million animals a year for money? If journalists would think rationally instead of trying to fit into the sleazy world of media hype, they could actually produce a brilliant story on ALF humanitarians and the current paradoxes in our society.


www.adaptt.org/alf.html

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Oui hop, je suis tout à fait d'accord avec toi et je pensais aussi exactement à ce que tu as écrit à la toute fin de ton commentaire, soit

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c’est vrai qu’il vaudrait mieux libérer des animaux qui peuvent être recueillis.

Pourquoi ces animaux sont-ils relâchés dans la nature alors qu'ils pourraient d'abord être recueillis (dans des refuges peut-être) puis tranquillement habitués à subvenir à leurs besoins dans la nature...
car comme ils naissent dans des cages, je me demande s'ils ont l'instinct de chasser pour survivre ou celui de creuser un terrier pour se protéger du froid ou du danger... L'article de Gary Yourofsky est très intéressant. Je ne l'avais jamais lu. Je trouve qu'il exprime très bien la façon dont ces libérations sont traitées par les journalistes et l'industrie de la fourrure... De plus, il donne aussi un peu d'espoir car d'après lui les animaux peuvent très bien supporter ces libérations dans la nature...

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Peut-être qu'il faut aussi un peu relativiser les propos de Yourofsky mais vraiment, plus je pense à cette histoire de 3000 visons morts en à peine une journée plus ça me semble difficile à croire !
Morts de quoi : de faim en une seule journée ? De froid, un 15 octobre, en Espagne ?