Chances are, it came from a terrified mink in a tiny cage. About 85 percent of the fur used in coats, scarves, wraps, and other fashion items is derived from animals in fur farms, primarily mink. Like ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Half measures lead to half results: the safety of people and animals are still at risk by allowing fur farming to continue in British Columbia. After numerous COVID-19 outbreaks on mink farms and ...

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 ...

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 ...