WSU Mink Researcher and ALF-Target John Gorham Dies
The notorious fur industry researcher and ALF-target John Gorham dies at age 88.
In a coordinated 1991 attack, the Animal Liberation Front broke into one office and two animal holding facilities at Washington State University, liberating six mink, seven coyotes, and ten mice. The office of John Gorham was also broken into, with documents related to the fur industry taken and others destroyed. Damages in the three-pronged raid totaled $150,000.
The Animal Liberation Front, in their communique, stated the target of the raid was fur industry mink researcher John Gorham, who Fur Rancher Magazine once called “one of the world’s leading researchers in fur farm diseases”. On his passing, the Fur Commission USA stated his “contribution to the North American mink industry is unsurpassed.”
While the ALF raid dealt a blow, the mink research that Gorham oversaw still continues at Washington State University. The best available information the secretive mink research program can be read in The Blueprint fur farm list (download here).
It is unfortunate Gorham did not live to see the day the Animal Liberation Front returned and shut down his sick operation for good.
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