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Rethink Mink

We are working to ban inhumane and dangerous mink farming in the United States and the European Union, as well as pushing legislative proposals.

The Issue

We are determined to ban mink farming in the United States and the European Union, and we are pushing legislative proposals in both political domains. Mink farms are inhumane, with these wild, solitary, territorial animals kept in small, barren cages that create such stressful and unnatural conditions that the animals exhibit high levels of aggression, including cannibalism.

Mink are bilateral transmitters of SARS-CoV-2 and a serious risk of spreading the virus and incubating variants.

Prior to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, there were approximately 60 million mink killed worldwide for their pelts with Europe producing half the output and the United States five percent. In 2020-21, there have been viral outbreaks on more than 440 mink farms in the West, with at least three variants developing in Denmark, France, and the United States.

Read our scientific report on Mink Farming and Covid by Jim Keen, D.V.M., Ph.D. here

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Read our letter to Congressional Leaders on bipartisan amendment to the House’s COMPETES Act that prohibits U.S. mink farming due to the substantial public health risk from zoonotic mink-origin COVID-19 variants.

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Mink fur farms continue dramatic decline in capacity, market interest, and value, according to latest USDA annual survey

CDC Admits Recent Failures,
Promises to Reorganize and Re-energize

Denmark Acted with Proper Urgency After Mutated Virus Spilled from Mink to Humans

U.S. Senate Urges Nixing of House Provision to Ban Dangerous and Inhumane Mink Farms

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For Months, U.S. Centers for Disease Control Failed to Report Mink Variant Spillover to Michigan Residents

Mink Farms Deliver a Poisonous Blend of Cruelty and Contagion, Without Any Real Economic Benefits

U.S. House Passes Sweeping Ban on Mink Farming Citing Cruelty and Contagion Risks

Mink Farmers Threaten More Than Mink as They Confine and Kill the Animals for Luxury Consumers in China

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Mink Farming is Factory Farming

British Columbia’s Action to Shut Down Dangerous Mink Farms Applauded by Animal Wellness Groups

Mink farms pose extreme risk of spreading SARS-CoV-2, and a new study explains why

Mink Farming Industry Production and Revenues in Free Fall, according to new U.S. government report

CDC Goes Wild on Rabies, Ignores Urgent Domestic COVID-19 Threat from Mink Farms

Vaccinating Mink from COVID-19 Is Exactly the Wrong Response to the Animal Welfare and SARS-CoV-2 Crisis on these Farms

Startling Scientific Report from the Center for a Humane Economy Documents U.S. Mink Farms Have Potential to Extend the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic and Forge Variants

House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro, Rep. Nancy Mace and Other Leading Democrats and Republicans Seek Mink Farming Ban, as a Hedge Against New SARS-CoV-2 Variants

Mink Farming Ban Introduced in Congress, Led by House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro

The Urgent Moral and Public Health Case Against Mink Farming

Oregon Natural Resources Committee to Consider Nation’s First Proposed Statewide Ban on Mink Farming

Oregon Bill to End Mink Farming, Compensate State’s Few Remaining Producers

Mink Farms and COVID-19: A Case Example of an Alarming Failure of Political and Scientific Leadership in the U.S.

Are Mink Farms about to Undo the Work toward a COVID Vaccine?

Animal Wellness Call for U.S. Government Buy-Out of Illinois Mink Farms to Prevent Them from Becoming COVID Super-Spreaders

We Can Stop the Most Appalling Form of Factory Farming

Federal Government, States Must Shut Down American Mink Farms, Say Animal Welfare Groups

Animal Wellness Call for U.S. Government Buy-Out of Oregon Mink Farms to Prevent Them from Becoming COVID Super-Spreaders

Animal Wellness Calls for Buy-Out of American Mink Farms

Animal Wellness Groups Call for U.S. Government Buy-Out of Wisconsin Mink Farms to Prevent Them from Becoming COVID Super-Spreaders

Animal Protection Groups Call for Congress, USDA to Shut Down Mink Farms in the U.S.

Mink Farms Incubate Cruelty and COVID-19

California Adopts Two Remarkable Policies to Hasten the Demise of the Fur Industry

Fur Ban in New York City Requires Foresight, Fortitude from Council Members

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