Farmed mink peeking out of its nest box (Truth About Fur) Since it was learned that COVID-19 can pass from humans to mink, farmers in the United States have put in place strict biosecurity protocols ...

A wild mink in Utah is the first free-ranging native animal anywhere to test positive for COVID-19. It was found and tested near an infected fur farm, and that has some national groups raising alarms.

Animal rights groups are urging Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to examine mink farming’s risks to public health. Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy have ...

One or more intruders broke into an Iowa mink farm and released 2,000 of the furbearing animals in what a trade group called a “terrorist act” under federal law.

ROCKEFELLER TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WOLF) — A vandal reportedly broke into a mink farm in Pennsylvania, setting thousands of mink loose in the area. State Police said Richard H. Stahl Sons in Rockefeller ...

With an upbringing steeped in animal agriculture, it’s fair to ask how I can now be a leading voice calling on Congress to shut down mink farms and to turn the page on an industry that’s been around ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends today’s filing of the Mink Facility Disease Prevention Act, which would end mink farming in Illinois to protect human health. Sponsored by ...

Just weeks after Denmark ordered the culling of 17 million farmed minks to stop the spread of COVID-19, a mink in Utah has become the first known wild animal to contract the coronavirus in the U.S., ...

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, told ...

It was late in the day for muskrats to be out on Mill Creek, or at least the stretch that runs between a parking lot and a playground near the southern limits of the city. But there they were, two of ...

COVID-19 is running wild in America. A mink in Utah has tested positive for the contagion — the first-ever known case in a wild animal, according to officials. While the small mammals are known to get ...