Claim of responsibility for Utah mink farm raid
Anonymous activist takes credit for releasing 20 mink in Utah.
In a communique received this week by Bite Back, an anonymous activist took credit for the release of 20 mink and the destruction of breeding records in Utah. On September 13th, the farm of Harold Ovard (Wanship, UT) was entered, breeding records were destroyed, and cages were opened.
The communique indicated the raid was carried out by a single person acting alone.
Location of the farm revealed
After police and the fur industry refused to name the farm, citing concerns of “retaliation”, this communique (posted below) reveals the farm:
Ovard Mink Farm
1715 SW Hoytsville Road
Wanship, UT 84017
The irony
Police speculate the small number of animals released (20) was due to the raid being interrupted by a feed delivery truck from the Utah Fur Breeder’s Agricultural Cooperative (FBAC).
In an unlikely coincidence, the Ovard mink farm is the same farm that a driver for the FBAC gave a stranger a tour of in 2009, not knowing the person was an animal rights activist working undercover. Photos taken in this tour were published in The Blueprint fur farm list in 2010, showing mink in small wire cages, and other features of the farm.
Writeup + photos from inside the Ovard farm, published in The Blueprint fur farm list 2010.
The communique
“THIS FRIDAY THE 13TH WAS AN UNLUCKY ONE FOR HAROLD OVARD AS HE AWOKE TO HIS BLOODY BUSINESS HAVING BEEN RAIDED BY A MINK LIBERATION BRIGADE WARRIOR.
BREEDING RECORDS DESTROYED, 20 MINK LIBERATED FROM A HELL OF HUMANITY’S MAKING.
FOR T, K, AND ALL PRISONERS OF THIS WAR.
LIBERATE!
– ANONYMOUS”
You guys don’t think before you act. That’s 20 mink that will later starve to death. Ya that’s way better then dieing with a full stomach in a shelter, then used as a natural resource so we don’t have to make faux fur and put harmful fumes in the air. Now they will slowly starve to death and rot away wasted. Because of this raid I am going to buy 20 more traps for this upcoming trapping season. I’m going to see how many more of my buddies I can get to do the same so we can catch more fur for the now missing fur. We will respect the animal and it’s surroundings while you guys make them suffer.
Okay, Mr Tough Pants. Not sure where your logic is, but good luck with all of that.
I commend this act of bravery for those who cannot defend themselves. It brings needed media and awareness to the situation. Animals are not a resource they are intelligent and they are becoming endangered at rapid rates due to that mentality. I live in Utah and hope to see/42hear more of this. Thank you anonymous. No more blood for fashion!