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Mink Legislation Reintroduced to Protect Public Health and Compensate Farmers
Vectors for Infection Risk in the United States Act (Mink VIRUS Act), bipartisan legislation endorsed by the Animal Welfare ...
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Global Fur Production in Drastic Decline
The Netherlands, for example, recently exited fur farming. The ban in the mink-producing country ended up coming early in 2021 after mink were killed due to infections with Covid-19. Norway ...
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Over fear of bird flu outbreak, IL lawmakers want to regulate the mink trade
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — A bill filed by a State House Democrat would add regulations on an unregulated minx fur trade in ...
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Gov. Kotek Called on to Address Growing Disease Risks on Mink Farms
The groups are asking the governor to fast-track phasing out commercial mink fur farming in Oregon to stanch the significant risk of dangerous zoonotic diseases being spread from these operations. The ...
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Life and death in fur farming
Jo-Anne McArthur (Canada) shows American mink kits fighting for space in a nest box on a fur farm. Conducting investigations into animal cruelty is dangerous, but for Jo-Anne it is important to ...
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Illinois Bill Requiring Disease Monitoring on Mink Farms Passes House Committee
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) celebrates today’s passage of the Mink Facility Disease Prevention Act (H.B. 2627) in the ...
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Oregon Officials Petitioned to Add Farmed Mink to State Prohibited Species List
12,000-animal mink fur-farming operation have tested positive for COVID-19 and that the virus continues to spread within the facility. Adding mink to the prohibited species list would prohibit the ...
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Jewish farms are booming. Now the farmers want to grow their community.
Some 13 people responded to the invite, including Shani Mink, who was then farming at the Pearlstone Jewish Retreat Center outside Baltimore. That afternoon, the two women started a Facebook page ...
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Lithuania's top court upholds fur farming ban
VILNIUS, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Lithuania's Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that the fur farming ban passed by the previous parliament does not violate the Constitution, Baltic News Service (BNS ...