This will probably only save animal lives in the distant future, when farms like this are no longer allowed to operate. It's one thing to hold quiet animosity

This will probably only save animal lives in the distant future, when farms like this are no longer allowed to operate. It's one thing to hold quiet animosity for the fur industry operating silently and invisibly. But this is now front page news in sleepy northwest Ohio, people from Findlay (where I've done some consulting) to Fort Wayne are now aware there's a newly built mink fur farm in their backyards. And even after the news fades, when your koi pond is suddenly empty, when you hear a rabbit scream at night, when you see a dead squirrel in your yard with its face chewed off, or when you just see an unusual white animal swimming in a pond, residents will think "Oh hey, that's probably one of those mink that were liberated from the farm in Van Wert." That kind of public opinion will eventually get the farm shut down. I don't think the ALF/the vandals were confused into believing that a likely outcome was 40,000 people adopting those minks to live happy, long lives as family pets. But every minute that farm is operating, 40,000 mink are suffering in small cages: https://www.farmtransparency.org/facilities/zx0hb-lion-farms-usa-mink-farm https://www.farmtransparency.org/facilities/zx0hb-lion-farms... That farm might still continue to operate for another 50 years or more, with each of 20,000 breeding pairs of mink having 8 kits per year. If 10,000 dead today is enough to make it unprofitable and shut down, it's easy to justify sacrificing 10,000 mink today for the sake of 8 MILLION mink over the next 50 years.