“Life and Death in Fur Farming”
Journalist Jo-Anne McArthur took this harrowing image of American mink kits struggling for space inside a cage at a Swedish mink farm; the sign above in Swedish indicates that two minks have recently died.
There have been modest legislative changes to mink farming in the country since this photo was taken, such as mandated slightly larger cages. During the covid-19 pandemic, the emergence of the coronavirus among farmed minks also led to the shutdown of the mink industry and the mass culling of millions of minks in countries like Denmark and Sweden. But this year, Sweden allowed some farms to reopen for business and Denmark may decide to follow suit as well, raising the possibility that these sorts of conditions will once again return.
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