I wonder what the average difference in quality of life is for the mink in this situation.

Nikolas Giakoumidis / AP
A mink runs past dead animals on a road in Hiliodendro, near the northern Greek city of Kastoria, on Monday, Aug. 30. 2010. More than 50,000 mink were set loose in the area on Friday and Saturday, after raids by suspected animal rights activists on two fur farms. Greece's The National Fur Breeders' Association said most of the released animals are likely to die, adding that the cost to the farm owners could pass 1 million Euros ($1.27 million) despite an effort to recover the animals.


I guess living in a wire cage, in your own feces and going crazy over the long confinement with others in the same wire cage hellhole is a great life! Only to be anally electrocuted, beaten or poisoned is a great thing to look forward to, and very often skinned alive! Good for the Animal Rights people that released them ( at least they are free and die instead of being murdered, we have NO right to murder animals, particularly for some UGLY person to wear that tortured, dead animal's skin! This barbaric cruel world of human exploitation against any and all other life, will certainly cause our extinction! It should, because there is so much death and torture in this world, much of it for "fun and entertainment", it is sickening and those in power who do not stop it are complicit in "keeping the status quo" just like each and everyone of us who are complicit for not speaking out against the horrors done to humans and the animals! The US government tries very hard to keep the murders "out of sight out of mind". Do I care that a murder industry lost their victims, hell no! Drive them all out of business! We have the freedom to choose what we like to do, but when it comes to killing, murdering another living being, WE DO NOT have that choice, even if we do not directly murder the animal, we are just as guilty for buying those products and supporting death merchants!
That's some expensive road kill.
John, I'd need to know the diet and natural habitat of a Mink to answer your question. Saying that, I'll go on out and surf The Net a while and get some unofficial info to report back with on this story of furry freedom.
I've never been run ovef by a car, but I bet it isn't pleasant.
Ok, I'm back from my Sabbatical.
According to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, Mink that are bred in captivity and freed from their captors often die from exposure, attacks by other Mink- they are extremely territorial-and automobiles. Apparantly these critters need about a five-mile zone, usually along a waterway, that they can call their own. Other Mink are not welcome.. They like Rabbit, Crawfish, fish and waterfowl to munch on, but their diet in captivity is usually made up of 'expired' food products, such as cheese and meat leavings.
I'd say these Mink have a chance, if slim of surviving.
I don't completely agree with the idea of a mink farm and the way the animals are treated. Still, releasing those same minks into the wild to starve or become road kill seems just as negligent and counter-productive to the process. Two wrongs don't make a right. The surest way to get marginalized or ignored in our current world? Act or operate like a radical or a terrorist. If you can't lobby for the change that you want, acting against society at large on your own, outside the law, makes you just as bad as the people you hope to combat. At your core, you're violating the agency of other folks, right or wrong... the same thing you claim to be against.
Oh, and Paul1316066... buy a dictionary.
murder, noun - the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.