I am sure the link to the Peta video will be posted.

I just wanted to let all know that FACT has pulled together a quick and
dirty web page with links to help people write letters on their own.

http://ferret-fact.org/TripleFarm.htm

Included is a link to the Peta release and video (for strong stomachs
only....); a link to the Associated Press article about the
investigation underway as a result; a link to the Animal Welfare Act
if you wish to quote anything from it. Also listed are the people who
would be responsible for investigating allegations of abuse; those who
have contracts to purchase animals from Triple F including the CDC,
NIH, Dept of the Navy; and Petland.

Also included in the contact information for the owner of Triple F.

I will repeat what I have stated before and elsewhere. Anyone who
thinks these types of places are warm, cozy family farms raising sweet
little ferrets is living in a bubble. These are factories. The animals
in them are raised just about the same way as chickens in battery
cages; dogs in puppy mills; and veal calves are - as a product to be
produced as cheaply as possible.

While clearly this one appears to be from the very bottom of a dirty
barrel, I would bet that most, while perhaps not as pernicious, are
cut from basically the same cloth.

Whenever profit is the motivator, there will always be pressure to
elicit every last dollar out of a venture.

Ann Gruden
Ferret Association of Connecticut, Inc.

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