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Largest US Fur Farm, Recently Raided by ALF, Closes
Ohio: The largest mink farm in the U.S. is closing on Friday. The owner of North America’s largest mink farm, located in Van Wert County, Ohio is closing down the business and selling it, according to the farm’s operations manager, Eddie Meyer.
Last month, at least 10,000 mink were liberated from this hell of humanity's making by the Animal Liberation Front.
This is what illegal direct action achieves - closing in one night what years of opposition could not.
No longer will thousands of wild animals be held captive, then murdered in the cruel fur trade at this location. Numerous similar captive animal facilities have closed due to the economic impact of these raids in the past. There have been three previous liberations this year: Tonn's Mink Farm in Massillon, Ohio, Pipkorn Farm in Powers, Michigan, and most recently Scholten Farm in Michigan. None of the activists responsible for the liberations have been identified or apprehended.
The number of fur farms in America has dwindled from more than 300 in the 1990s to less than 100 today, as the fur industry continues its steady decline into oblivion.
The Animal Liberation Front and other anonymous activists utilize economic sabotage in addition to the direct liberation of animals from conditions of abuse and imprisonment to halt needless animal suffering. By making it more expensive to trade in the lives of innocent, sentient beings, they maintain the atrocities against our brothers and sisters are likely to occur in smaller numbers; their goal is to abolish the exploitation, imprisonment, torture and killing of all innocent, non-human animals. A copy of the Final Nail, a listing of known fur farms in North America, is available here: https://finalnail.wordpress.com/
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Animal Liberation Press Office
825-C Merrimon Avenue #121
Asheville, NC 28804
press [at] animalliberationpressoffice.org
This is what illegal direct action achieves - closing in one night what years of opposition could not.
No longer will thousands of wild animals be held captive, then murdered in the cruel fur trade at this location. Numerous similar captive animal facilities have closed due to the economic impact of these raids in the past. There have been three previous liberations this year: Tonn's Mink Farm in Massillon, Ohio, Pipkorn Farm in Powers, Michigan, and most recently Scholten Farm in Michigan. None of the activists responsible for the liberations have been identified or apprehended.
The number of fur farms in America has dwindled from more than 300 in the 1990s to less than 100 today, as the fur industry continues its steady decline into oblivion.
The Animal Liberation Front and other anonymous activists utilize economic sabotage in addition to the direct liberation of animals from conditions of abuse and imprisonment to halt needless animal suffering. By making it more expensive to trade in the lives of innocent, sentient beings, they maintain the atrocities against our brothers and sisters are likely to occur in smaller numbers; their goal is to abolish the exploitation, imprisonment, torture and killing of all innocent, non-human animals. A copy of the Final Nail, a listing of known fur farms in North America, is available here: https://finalnail.wordpress.com/
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Animal Liberation Press Office
825-C Merrimon Avenue #121
Asheville, NC 28804
press [at] animalliberationpressoffice.org
For more information:
http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org/
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Fur is so last season.
About five weeks after animal rights activists freed 10,000 minks from a fur farm in Ohio, they got what they wished for: The Van Wert mink farm is closing down.
However, that doesn't mean animals will no longer be exploited or killed on the property. Here's what's known so far.
Lion Farms, a mink farm in Van Wert, Ohio is shutting down.
On Dec. 20, 2022, local Ohio newspaper The Delphos Herald reported that Lion Farms, located in Ohio's Van Wert County, is shutting down. And it seems like the recent jailbreak of thousands of mink from the farm is the reason.
Eddie Meyer, the operations manager for Lion Farms, which is the biggest mink farm in North America, confirmed the news to the paper.
According to Meyer, Lion Farms' owner, Rien Leeijen, told employees on Monday, Dec. 19 that he was selling the business, and that their final day of work will be Friday, Dec. 23.
Cooper Farms may be buying Lion Farms.
Meyer believes that Leeijen is in talks with Cooper Farms, a turkey farming company in the area, about selling the farm to the company.
"Cooper Farms doesn’t know anything about mink but they do know about turkeys so maybe that’ll be the next big turkey barn. I don’t know," Meyer told The Delphos Herald.
Green Matters called Lion Farms to request a comment, but there was no answer.
About five weeks after animal rights activists freed 10,000 minks from a fur farm in Ohio, they got what they wished for: The Van Wert mink farm is closing down.
However, that doesn't mean animals will no longer be exploited or killed on the property. Here's what's known so far.
Lion Farms, a mink farm in Van Wert, Ohio is shutting down.
On Dec. 20, 2022, local Ohio newspaper The Delphos Herald reported that Lion Farms, located in Ohio's Van Wert County, is shutting down. And it seems like the recent jailbreak of thousands of mink from the farm is the reason.
Eddie Meyer, the operations manager for Lion Farms, which is the biggest mink farm in North America, confirmed the news to the paper.
According to Meyer, Lion Farms' owner, Rien Leeijen, told employees on Monday, Dec. 19 that he was selling the business, and that their final day of work will be Friday, Dec. 23.
Cooper Farms may be buying Lion Farms.
Meyer believes that Leeijen is in talks with Cooper Farms, a turkey farming company in the area, about selling the farm to the company.
"Cooper Farms doesn’t know anything about mink but they do know about turkeys so maybe that’ll be the next big turkey barn. I don’t know," Meyer told The Delphos Herald.
Green Matters called Lion Farms to request a comment, but there was no answer.
For more information:
https://www.greenmatters.com/news/van-wert...
What wonderful news! Hopefully, there won’t be a buyer. Thank you, ALF!
Thank you for your write up! Wow, so great to see the fruits of direct action!
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