In early August 2023, Finland’s food authority ordered three of the nation’s fur farms to slaughter 50,000 of their animals. The purpose was not to create new fur coats, but to stop a virus: the H5N1 ...

A caged arctic fox. Photo by Claire Bass, via Humane Society International. The Minneapolis City Council adopted a new code last year that prohibits fur stores in the city. This decision follows ...

Trespassers targeted a mink farm in the Massillon area late July 2 or early July 3, cut through a fence and released about 2,000 mink, the Fur Commission USA said. The Stark County Sheriff's Office ...

As coronavirus tears through the world’s mink farms, the pandemic is accelerating the shuttering of a controversial industry. Earlier this month, the Danish government ordered the country’s mink farms ...

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SUNBURY — ”Pure and simple, it was a terroristic attack” is how the executive director of the Fur Commission USA describes the release of 700 mink from their cages at a Northumberland County farm.

Lars Holten Hansen spent the first Saturday in November in his barn in northern Denmark, killing the mink that his family had raised for two generations. His partner, Rina Skjøth, who designs jewelry ...

A wild mink in Utah is the first free-ranging native animal anywhere to test positive for COVID-19. It was found and tested near an infected fur farm, and that has some national groups raising alarms.