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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...
Empty cages at the Soland fur farm
Fur farm for sale
We're happy that Kevin & Taylor Moyle have stopped mink farming and are selling their property in Jerome, Idaho. In this photo from the real estate listing, you can see the remaining mink sheds being taken apart.
Royal Oak Mink Ranch discovered empty
Another of Minnesota's largest fur farms, the Royal Oak Mink Ranch (Sauk Centre), was also discovered to be largely (completely?) empty this fall. The only activity on the farm was a tractor busy cleaning out the sheds. This video was taken inside one of the farm's...
Are Minnesota’s largest fur farms closed?
This past summer and fall, activists visited two of what were believed to be the largest mink farms in the state. The first was Mueller Bros. Mink Ranch, in the city of Kimball. Of the dozens of sheds on the farm, many were found to be empty. If not closed, this...