by Final Nail | Mar 26, 2025 | Fox farm, Mink farm
40% of laying hens in the U.S. are no longer confined to tiny wire cages. Over the last 10 years, thanks to groups such as The Humane League, there has been tremendous progress in ending the use of battery cages, gestation crates and other forms of extreme confinement...
by Final Nail | Mar 7, 2025 | Fox farm, Mink farm
As the fur farming industry declines, the industry has less money to support scientific research into fertility, nutrition, and diseases that are common in intensive confinement farms. Not too long ago, there were fur industry-funded research farms at Michigan State...
by Final Nail | Feb 26, 2025 | Mink farm
A peek inside the Masog mink ranch (Lebanon, Oregon).
by Final Nail | Feb 19, 2025 | Mink farm, Vaccines
Fur farmers depend on vaccines to protect against diseases such as distemper, mink viral enteritis and botulism that are common on fur farms. We learned recently that Ceva Animal Health, who had been the main vaccine producer, is no longer producing vaccines for mink...
by Final Nail | Jan 17, 2025 | Mink farm
This week, a cat in Iowa tested positive for bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza). In late December, Iowa reported the first human case of avian influenza in the state. The virus has been confirmed on hundreds of chicken, turkey and dairy farms across the...
by Final Nail | Jan 11, 2025 | Mink farm
Less than 3 months after mink were released from cages at the Richard Stahl & Sons fur farm in Pennsylvania, the farm is up for sale. We are waiting to see if the property sells, but this may be the last winter that mink are killed at the Stahl farm! (Photo from...
by Final Nail | Dec 29, 2024 | Fox farm, Mink farm
In 2024, we confirmed the closure of 70 fur farms across the U.S. Thank you to everyone who sent us photos and reports from farm visits this year! We plan to continue to whittle down our list in 2025. (Photos from the now-closed Woodring Fur Farm in Fredericksburg,...
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