August 5, 2012
ALF Releases Captive Foxes From Farm in Northern
Virginia This Morning
Scott Dean's D&S Fox Farm in Elkton Targeted
Elkton, VA: In a communique received by the North American Animal
Liberation Press Office today, the Animal Liberation Front has taken credit
for liberating every captive fox on a northern Virginia fur farm on Sunday
morning. According to the communique, activists also destroyed equipment
used in the exploitation of these wild animals at Scott Deans D&S Fox Farm,
16671 Fox Farm Lane in Elkton, 120 miles west of Washington DC. Every animal
on the farm was seen to scurry to freedom in the adjacent national park.
The communique reads, in full:
On the night of August 5, the
Animal Liberation Front visited the only known fur farm in the state of
Virginia, Scott Dean's D&S Fox Farm in Elkton. We opened every one of the
few cages at D&S, giving thirteen beautiful foxes a chance at new lives in
the nearby Shenandoah National Park. As we watched a few of them immediately
scurry off to freedom, we damaged the machinery that allows Dean to
continue his day-to-day operation confining and torturing these sensitive
creatures. Dean, it appears that this is a hobby providing you only
supplementary income - it is our commitment to free your prisoners and cost
you more than you make until you shut down. To those nationwide who also
seek justice for the innocent, your nearest fur farm is at most a state
away. Take action for animals. -ALF
Imprisoned in cages for life,
fur-bearing animals killed to make unnecessary fashion statements are forced
to endure intensive confinement, compared to the miles of territory these
still-wild animals would enjoy in their natural state. The natural instincts
of these captive animals are completely frustrated; self-mutilation,
sickness, infection, poor sanitation and the sheer stress of confinement
lead animals in captivity to premature death. When they survive, animals of
sufficient size are killed by anal electrocution or gassing, then skinned.
In addition to liberating the wild animals destined for a certain, painful
and agonizing death, another goal of liberationists is to cause economic
damage to fur retailers and farms; dozens of stores and fur farming
operations have seen economic ruin since "Operation Bite Back" began by the
Animal Liberation Front in the 1990s.
The Animal Liberation Front
utilizes 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, the ALF 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 innocent, non-human
animals.
