Kopenhagen Fur, which describes itself as the world's largest fur auctioneer, said this week it will shut its doors in a few years. Some say this could be one element signaling the start of the end of ...

In early August 2023, Finland’s food authority ordered three of the nation’s fur farms to slaughter 50,000 of their animals. The purpose was not to create new fur coats, but to stop a virus: the H5N1 ...

Mink on fur farms incubate diseases such as COVID-19 and avian influenza, creating the perfect conditions for new variants to jump to humans—with potentially devastating results. Mink farms risk ...

There was a time when a mink coat was the ultimate status item. It was seen as an investment piece passed down through generations. But grandma's mink coat may not be fought over anymore. Animal ...

hen you enter the Edberg fur shed, one of the first things you notice is a distinct aroma. It is part wood smoke, a byproduct of the wood stove that heats the building. And it is part animal, ...

ARLINGTON, S.D. – Federal officials are now investigating a massive fire at a secretive mink processing plant in the small eastern South Dakota town of Arlington. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, ...

As coronavirus tears through the world’s mink farms, the pandemic is accelerating the shuttering of a controversial industry. Earlier this month, the Danish government ordered the country’s mink farms ...

Trespassers targeted a mink farm in the Massillon area late July 2 or early July 3, cut through a fence and released about 2,000 mink, the Fur Commission USA said. The Stark County Sheriff's Office ...

Throughout my career – as chair of fashion design at Parsons, creative director at Liz Claiborne, and host of “Project Runway” – I have advocated against fur. The fashion business has a troubling ...

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.