Är aktioner av djurbefrielsefronten etiska? Är det rätt att släppa minkar från minkgårdar lösa?

I en värld där en majoritet är icke-veganer så tror jag fritagningsaktioner inte minskar våldet mot djuren, och inte har någon möjlighet till att göra detta. P.g.a. en kraftig efterfrågan på djurprodukter, så blir de fritagna djuren ersatta av andra djur [detta resonemang utvecklas nedan]. Jag menar att vi istället ska fokusera på vår tid att göra aktioner som minskar det totalt våldet och den totala djurexploateringen, inklusive utbilda personer om veganism (t.ex. genom detta kraftfulla argument: http://bloganders.blogspot.no/2013/06/varfor-alskar-vi-hundar-men-dodar-och.html ).

Jag tycker detta är ett starkt argument om varför vi inte ska göra dessa aktioner:
When you speak of “direct action” above, you appear to be limiting it to removing animals from situations of exploitation. If this is indeed all that you mean, my view is that sometimes rescuing animals is morally acceptable or desirable, sometimes it is not clear whether a rescue is acceptable and other times rescues are clearly immoral.

I will start with the rescue situations that I am ambivalent about. On the one hand, there are individual healthy animals in need of rescuing, and it would be cold to turn one's back on them. On the other hand, rescuing healthy animals will cause more animals to be bred into existence to replace those rescued. In other words, the act of rescuing one healthy animal is casually connected to the response of the exploiter, who will respond to the demand that the rescuer has created, phone his supplier, and ask that more animals be bred into existence, used and killed. The rescuer is the cause of this suffering and death NOW. So, I am of mixed minds when it comes to rescuing healthy animals.

Regarding rescue situations that I believe are morally acceptable or desirable, these would involve “unhealthy” animals, or animals that the exploiter does not want for whatever reason. If the animals are sounhealthy that they would be discarded by the animal exploiter, then I support efforts to rescue them, so long as nothing is paid for them, not even $1. These situations do not create demand for breeding more animals into existence, whom would then be exploited and killed. Rescues are clearly unethical when not enough consideration is paid to the well-being of the animals. For example, cases of releasing minks from mink farms, where the minks have died of dehydration, starvation, or have been hit by cars. All of that said, it is a better use of an activist's time to do vegan education than to rescue animals. Vegan education saves* many more lives. One could spend days (or more) planning and executing an open or covert rescue. Perhaps that would save 10-50 animals. Or, instead, one could spend that same time doing vegan education. Helping just one person in her 20s to go vegan would save*(i.e. prevent _thousands_ of animals from being bred into existence, exploited and killed) NOW. As Francione notes, we’re in a zero sum game: every minute spent doing a rescue is one minute less that we could have been doing vegan
education, saving more lives.

So, in general, this is the reason why I believe direct action via rescue is not the best approach to abolish all animal use. That said, I do not actively oppose all rescues, as I explain above.”
[Citat Jeff Perz]

Jag skriver mer om mina tankar här: http://bloganders.blogspot.no/2013/05/are-vegans-justified-to-use-violence-to.html