The Department of Agriculture recorded 351 mink farms in 2000, down from the 2,836 farms that were in operation in the early 1940s. While American consumers were gravitating away from real fur ...

The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center received its first American Mink in more than 5 years. The last time the center had a mink patient was 2019 and it’s only the seventh ever admitted ...

“Not only do mink suffer in cramped and crowded cages on fur farms, but we also cannot ignore the risk of disease proliferation and the possibility of human infection,” said Susan Millward, AWI’s ...

Jo-Anne McArthur (Canada) shows American mink kits fighting for space in a nest box on a fur farm. Conducting investigations into animal cruelty is dangerous, but for Jo-Anne it is important to ...