New data show that fur production worldwide has dropped significantly as fur farming has become known for cruelty and public ...

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends today’s filing of the Mink Facility Disease Prevention Act in Illinois, which ...

Last month animal rights activists released approximately 2,000 mink and vandalized fur farms in Northern Utah and Southern Idaho. Michael Whelan, the executive director of Fur Commission USA ...

W hile output in producing countries has decreased recently due to the culling of animals as a precaution against the spread ...

primarily mink. Like other industrial animal operations, mink farms typically involve thousands of animals intensively confined in long rows of adjacent barren pens barely large enough for the animals ...

But grandma's mink coat may not be fought over anymore. Animal rights campaigns, government regulations, and changing trends have pushed the fur industry into decline. Back in the day, working in ...

While fur coats remain status symbols in many cultures, fur producers have come under pressure on several fronts.