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...raid on Rick Arritola's mink farm in Mount Angel, Ore., was carried out with military precision. Working under cover of darkness, a small group of antifur activists cut through a wire-mesh fence, pepper-sprayed a watchdog, bypassed an alarm system, opened cages and set free as many as 10,000 scurrying animals, most of them destined to be made into sleek, high-priced fur coats. It was a daring act of ecovandalism, perhaps the largest illegal animal release in U.S. history...
...also have been the dumbest. Most of the mink were babies--many of them unweaned and unable to live for long without their mother. The rest were typically ornery, aggressive adult mink that had been raised in captivity and didn't know enough to scatter into the hills. Instead, they fought and killed one another. By the end of last week, according to Arritola, some 2,000 of the infants had perished and at least 400 of his 1,600 adult females were missing or dead...
...botched deliverance was the latest of 25 attacks on American mink farms in the past 18 months. It was an "act of love," declared the Animal Liberation Front, a shadowy activist group that took responsibility for the raid in a communique issued late last week. "Contrary to the lies of the popular media," the A.L.F. claimed, "no animals are harmed in any act of liberation...
Several motels and murders later, and in between cameos by such veteran outragers as Richard Pryor, Henry Rollins and Mink Stole, we notice the signposts. This is a milder Wild at Heart, the 1990 road movie that, like this one, Lynch wrote with novelist Barry Gifford...
...some people who consumed the beef. Following Britain's lead, the American livestock industry last year voluntarily banned all sheep products in livestock feed. But the FDA's new measure will extend this ban further: no cows could be fed anything made with cow, goat, deer, elk or mink parts. Cow blood, gelatin and milk, however, will remain acceptable food ingredients for cattle, as they are not believed to harbor the illness. How about a nice salad...