For more on what happens to these animals, see this PETA exposé of a U.S. 4 The animals-who are housed in unbearably small cages-live with fear, stress, disease, parasites, and other physical and psychological hardships, all for the sake of an unnecessary global industry that makes billions of dollars annually.
Minks used for breeding are kept for four to five years. There are about three or four surviving kittens in each litter, and they are killed when they are about 6 months old, depending on what country they are in, after the first hard freeze. 3 At facilities where minks are bred and slaughtered for fur, workers usually breed female minks once a year. For more on this investigation, please see .įifty percent of mink farms are in Europe, and the rest are dispersed throughout the world, in North America and countries such as Argentina, China, and Russia. At other facilities, workers didn’t bother to verify that animals were unconscious before severing their heads or breaking their necks.
2 A PETA exposé of Russian facilities where animals are bred and slaughtered for their fur revealed one operation where 700 cages imprisoned 2,000 animals in just a single shed. Chinchillas, lynxes and raccoon dogs are also farmed for their fur. The most commonly farmed fur-bearing animals are minks, followed by foxes.
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