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New documentary about fur farming in Canada
Check out the new short documentary by The Fur-Bearers about fur farming in Canada! https://youtu.be/4DtygQBreeg?si=e9fAFOa3BidtfRut
Only fur farm in Missouri has closed
The Mid-Missouri Fox Farm was the only fur farm in the state of Missouri, and the southernmost farm on our list. The property has been sold, and it looks like the new owners are not continuing in the fur business. Although a few sheds remain, the rows of fox cages...
Bio-Groom Mink Oil
Only one of the dozens of Bio-Groom pet grooming products contains mink oil. Ask the company to remove fur farm animal cruelty from their ingredients list! Contact Frank Pohl, President: bioderm@biogroom.com.
Reject mink oil, reject the cruel fur industry!
Mink oil is directly connected to the suffering of animals on fur farms! Urge Red Wing Shoes to end their use of mink oil. Learn more: https://finalnail.com/alerts/
There is no such thing as a cage-free fur 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...
There is only one fur industry research facility in North America
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...
A peek inside the Masog mink ranch
A peek inside the Masog mink ranch (Lebanon, Oregon).
Ceva no longer producing vaccines for mink farmers
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...
Smeal fox farm in Scribner, Nebraska
Conditions inside the Ohio fur farm that was in the news last week were terrible, but not unique. This was filmed at the Smeal fox farm in Scribner, Nebraska, where foxes continue to suffer in horribly small cages inside ramshackle sheds. Foxes are social animals, but...
Hundreds of animals rescued from fur farm in Ohio
https://youtu.be/bagdSUASDLU?si=Eob6kco_dIsf3TAv Disturbing video from Humane World for Animals of the end of the Grand River Fur Exchange in Rome, Ohio. Humane World for Animals stepped in to help hundreds of animals after the farm owner died in late December. There...
It’s only a matter of time before there is a bird flu outbreak on a fur farm in the U.S.
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...
Stahl fur farm is for sale
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...
It’s the time for year-end lists
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,...
We are pleased to declare the Fassett Fur Farm (Webster City, Iowa) closed!
Marshall BioResources holiday party
Rumor has it that Marshall BioResources, one of the world's largest breeders of beagles, cats, ferrets and pigs for laboratory experimentation, is having a holiday party for employees this Saturday at del Lago Resort & Casino in Waterloo, New York. We don't know...