“Not only do mink suffer in cramped and crowded cages on fur farms, but we also cannot ignore the risk of disease proliferation and the possibility of human infection,” said Susan Millward, AWI’s ...

Fur farms dominate the trade, and production has more than doubled since the 1990s, to about a hundred million skins last year, mostly mink and some fox. Trappers typically add millions of wild ...

The Lion Farms USA Mink Farm in Hoaglin Township ... 40,000 Minks Released from Minnesota Fur Farm by Animal Rights Activists According to the FBI, ALF is a decentralized movement that promotes ...

The Department of Agriculture recorded 351 mink farms in 2000, down from the 2,836 farms that were in operation in the early 1940s. While American consumers were gravitating away from real fur ...

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 ...

Wildlife-advocacy and animal-protection groups sent an urgent letter today calling on Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and state officials to address mink fur farms’ escalating threats to public health and ...

There were at least 422 Covid outbreaks at 289 European and North American mink farms from last April 2020 to February 2021. The UK shut its last fur farm in 2003 but it has imported pelts worth ...

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 ...

The court noted that the ban aims to protect wildlife and prevent the spread of invasive species like the American mink. Lithuania is the 20th European country to ban fur farming. While farm ...