Well done :) animals have rites & the rite to live free - not to become some idiots clothing.
Takecare matey.

By bim | June 9, 2010 6:05 PM

The man should be given a medal.Civilized countries outlawed mink farms long ago.

By Edward Ka-Spel | June 9, 2010 7:37 PM

The real criminal in this case is the person who ran the place where these animals were kept. Mr Janssen should be freed.

By JOHN GAFFEY | June 10, 2010 3:15 PM

hi i think this guy is cool
way to go at realising the minks
mink farming is wrong

By Angela Dijkstra | June 12, 2010 12:57 PM

Peter Janssen is a real life hero and should be freed immediately!!
Fur farming is barbaric,cruel and is banned in most countries.
So come on Holland .. catch up with the times and ban this evil and barbaric trade!!

By Steven McLean | June 12, 2010 3:51 PM

Imagine anyone wanting to free animals that are cruelly imprisoned in cages and that are going to be skinned for fashion? I would think most of society want that!

By Lindy | June 13, 2010 8:59 PM

First off, assuming all the minks were successfully "freed" they would not survive long anyway, because as a violent and invasive species they would destroy farms and livestock as well as pets, and would be brutally hunted by locals because of the damage they cause (an identical situation happened in Britain a couple years ago, only more animals actually escaped). Furthermore, what these "activists" (more aptly dubbed domestic terrorists) don't realize, is that on top of causing damage and headaches for the business and the surrounding communities, it also causes more pain and distress for the animals themselves. While minks are likely kept "captive" in relatively small areas, the animals must be treated well and kept healthy in these farms, because mistreated or highly stressed mink will produce pelts of lower quality than healthy and happy ones. So by "freeing" from their climate controlled, regulated evironment, you expose them to disease, hunger, and climate situations they are unused to. Also, now instead of being humanely euthanized, they'll have their heads bashed in with a shovel by some local trying to save his cat or chickens from getting eaten. Congratulations!... bloody vegan idiot.

By Michael | June 14, 2010 4:38 PM

Way to go!! I admire folks who go a step further for the animals. It is wrong that he has to go to prison for being a caring and compassionate person, the real criminal is the guy who is making money by torturing these poor animals, I would like to see him treated the way he treats the animals, that would really be justice.

By Suzievegan | June 15, 2010 6:21 PM

michael,

of course, you forget that if we didn't keep these animals in captivity in the first place (for monetary gain no less), they wouldn't need to find their way in a non-natural environment were they to be freed by people like Mr Janssen.

By john e boy | June 16, 2010 10:52 AM

Come off it, Michael: you're missing the whole point. What Peter did was to bring the plight of the mink to the fore. It is morally wrong to cage any animals - and, here, for the prospective "beautification" of the wearers of their pelts. Well done, Peter. A pity you were caught while the real criminals get away with species murder.

By Stevegan | June 17, 2010 3:18 PM

Well, Michael, what are mink doing in that area in the first place? Why aren't they left alone to breed happily and safely in their natural original habitat? Could it be that humans have destroyed so much of the earth's natural environment that there are more captive animals now than free ones? It's ridiculous to dub people terrorists because they made someone lose money. Money is what got us into this insane situation... And anyone who really cares about their animals would never 'bash' anything's head in with a shovel - sure, there ARE people who do, and that is why activists free animals.

By Nicky | June 17, 2010 4:19 PM

Michael, Dont blame the person freeing the mink, blame the farmer for having them imprisoned in cages with the intention of skinning them for profit in the first place! They shouldnt be there, its cruel!
Any compassionate person seeing how they are kept and killed would want them free!
If you think that animal rights are terrorists what do you think of someone who does what this farmer does for a living?
Freeing them "causes more pain and distress for the animals" You've got to be joking!! You think it gives them more distress to be freed instead of being locked in cages never seeing daylight even? Thats ridiculous.
And you underestimate animals and seem very naive as to what goes on in these dreadful places, for instance they will SEE and HEAR other minks being killed in front of them and know it will be their turn soon and you don't realise that will be far worse distress? Well would that distress you?
"Controlled regulated environment" Wow thats one heck of a misleading way to describe it. How do you know that they will be humanely euthanised anyway? What will that be then, anally or vaginally electrocuted perhaps? cooked from the inside out in other words, or heads repeatedly bashed in maybe? These are some of the methods of killing them. Congratulations aware compassionate kind vegan, Id rather have them any day!

By Lindy | June 18, 2010 1:50 AM

A mink belongs in the wild which is its natural habitat. They should not have been in captivity in the first place. It is not God's intention to have animals caged.

By Julie van Niekerk | June 18, 2010 6:35 AM

What a hero. Fur looks lovely on the animals not humans. This practice of fur farming should have been outlawed years ago. Very cruel.

By Belinda Barnard | June 21, 2010 9:48 AM

Such nonsense of Micheal cannot be tolerated.

Mink extended across all Europe, reaching Finland in the north, but it is now extinct in the major part of its ancient range... "due to extensive farming of its fur".

Of course, "these animals may be exposed to disease, hunger, and climate situations they are unused..." They are not pets or domesticated; they are just breed for their fur, which is not natural at all. I can imagine this animal having warm summer, eye problems because of the hair, etc.

Please wake up

By Benito Camelas | June 21, 2010 4:30 PM

Michael,
"controlled regulated enviroment", "humanely euthanised"...under what rock you have been living, Michael???
This guy Peter Janssen is a hero that tried to bring public attention to atrocities of fur farming.
Wake up, Mickie!

By Natalie | June 22, 2010 5:48 AM