The 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.
It may also have been the dumbest. Most of the mink were babies--many of them unweaned and unable to live for long...
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