Kiwi Mink Oil Contaminated in Stores Across United States

[Omaha Steve]

From email.

Received Anonymously
November 12, 2013

In a well coordinated action during the second week of November, 263 jars
of Kiwi mink oil sold in chain drug and big box stores were tampered with
across the United States. Fortunately for us, Kiwi does not use tamper
proof seals. Each jar was opened and a small amount of cyanic acid added.
They were then placed back on the shelves in Wal-Mart, CVS, Walgreens, and
other stores.

Mink oil is a leather care byproduct of one of the most cruel industries
on this planet. Mink on fur farms are crowded often six to a cage for
life awaiting a violent death in the pelting season, which comes in one of
two ways, neck breaking or gassing with a lethal dose of carbon monoxide.

Those who use this product will not die like the animals caged on fur
farms. The cyanic acid will cause a severe burn and eat through the
leather products it is applied to.

Kiwi's involvement with the fur trade will no longer be tolerated.

[Press Office note: Imprisoned in cages for life, or mercilessly trapped with painful leghold traps in the wild, fur-bearing animals killed to make unnecessary fashion statements are forced to endure intensive confinement, compared to the miles of territory these still-wild animals would enjoy in their natural state. The natural instincts of these captive animals are completely frustrated; self-mutilation, sickness, infection, poor sanitation and the sheer stress of confinement lead animals in captivity to premature death. When they survive, animals of sufficient size are killed by anal electrocution or gassing, then skinned. In addition to liberating the wild animals destined for a certain, painful and agonizing death, another goal of liberationists is to cause economic damage to fur retailers and farms; dozens of stores and fur farming operations have seen economic ruin since "Operation Bite Back" began by the Animal Liberation Front in the 1990s.

The Animal Liberation Front and other anonymous activists utilize economic sabotage in addition to the direct liberation of animals from conditions of abuse and imprisonment to halt needless animal suffering. By making it more expensive to trade in the lives of innocent, sentient beings, they maintain the atrocities against our brothers and sisters are likely to occur in smaller numbers; their goal is to abolish the exploitation, imprisonment, torture and killing of innocent, non-human animals. A copy of the Final Nail, a listing of known fur farms in North America, is available from the Press Office website at www.animalliberationpressoffice.org]

[Deep13]

1. So, vandalism. nt

"Mink oil" is made o synthetic chemicals, btw.

[wercal]

2. They probably put a drop of real mink oil

In the vat of silicone.

[Half-Century Man]

6. Kiwi mink oil is made from

Mink oil (from the fat layer under the skin), silicone, and lanolin; but I couldn't find the concentrations.
Cyanic acid is used as a weed killer and there maybe linked to animal cancers. The MSDS (Material Data safety Sheets) I could find referred to Cyanic acid as a solid, so I am unsure as to the concentration of a liquid form. Mink oil's main usage is in anti-aging cosmetic creams, so there is good news in that the names of, don't indicate the contents of, cosmetics.

[Deep13]

8. Most likely.

I had always been under the impression that it was all synthetic.

Anyway, I use Nixwax now.

[Brickbat]

3. Doubtful.

[meanit]

4. That e-mail

stinks of a right wing smear tactic.
Besides, I think Mink Oil is just a trade name by Kiwi, not actually oil from minks.

[alfredo]

5. My can says Mink Oil, Silicone, and Lanolin.

[Half-Century Man]

7. An actual animal product, like meat.

Used mainly in anti-aging cosmetics.