The guys who released the mink from the farm were stupid; but no more so than those who dress themselves up to look like ginormous mink with a human head, thus giving stupid "mink farmers" the incentive to treat yet more mink with kind hospitality.
   I eat meat. Mostly deer from a free-run property. I eat fish. I play a bodhran made of goatskin. I detest beef--so all you ranchers and feedlot wallahs can disappear if you like. We don't need to wear furs in these "enlightened" days. So I have no great disdain for those who heave paint at the "I wanna look like a beastie" brigade.
There is a balance to be struck in all human affairs; consevation of wild species is one matter which needs redressing; too many have gone, too many will inevitably go. Like all human endeavours, two extremes are engendered; the one on the right is as loopy as the one on the left.
    Er----sorry about the bodhran------