Trapping/Fur Farming in the News

Here are but a few instances of animal cruelty reported in the fur industry. It should be noted that some of these stories are reported before the individuals involved have undergone legal proceedings. In essence, they are innocent until proven guilty.

I have taken care to include whole quotes as I find them. Accordingly, if you pay attention you may find a sentence that if removed would have made the statement far more demeaning to certain people and to the activity of fur farming or trapping in general. Because I believe in keeping things in relative context though, I have avoided this entirely. Therefore, these statements are as issued.
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• BBC News - "A company that runs a mink farm has been fined £5,000 with £15,000 costs after admitting 15 charges of cruelty and breaches of animal welfare rules. But all the charges against the farmer, Terence Smith, 73, whose farm trades under the name of TT Smith (Mink) Ltd, were dropped. . . . They found that some of the mink were suffering some horrendous injuries - some had tails missing, one was found to have died of blood poisoning - yet none of the injured appeared to have been given any veterinary attention. Oba Nsugbe, prosecuting, said: 'Some of the cages had faeces piled up underneath them. Some of the cages were missing nesting boxes and nipple feeders were broken. Blocked drains were overflowing with maggots and faeces and on that occasion they did see a number of injured mink.' The court heard some of the animals were so badly hurt that bones were protruding from infected wounds, some of which were inflicted by other mink. Some were in such a bad condition that they had to be put down. [44]"