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Malcolm Kilmowicz says he’ll face charges of breaking and entering if it puts the spotlight on the alleged animal rights abuses he has documented at a mink fur farm.

The activist videoed graphic images of conditions at a Durham fur farm one night in June 2017 and posted the images online.

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“Most people would see what I did as in the interest of public good,” Kilmowicz said outside Oshawa court Thursday, after making his first appearance on the breaking and entering charges.

His video allegedly shows minks overcrowded in cages with babies and dead bloated carcasses. Minks are self mutilating and cannibalizing each other.

“People are breaking the OSPCA act against cruelty to animals and the system of enforcement isn’t being upheld. It was always in the back of my head that I could get in trouble, but that didn’t matter,” he said.

There is no reason to prosecute, insisted defense lawyer Leo Salloum, who also helped defend another animal rights activist, Anita Krajnc, who was found not guilty in 2017 of mischief for giving pigs water as they were on their way to slaughter.