Fur-Farming Images
Merlin ID: 304229
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A mink with missing ears. Close confinement leads to stress and cannibalism. Fighting leads to extreme injury, usually on the mink's faces and necks. Sweden, 2010.
Photographer and activist Jo-Anne McArthur has been photographing and documenting the fur-farming trade, animal conditions and environment since 2009 throughout Canada and Europe. These images depict the atrocious conditions and animal cages at the fur-farms and deplorable state of the animals themselves.
Keywords: animal cruelty, humane society international, canada, europe, wildlife, fur-trade, fur-farming, fur-free, fur in fashion, captive wildlife One of thousands of injured mink kept in cages at a fur farm. Due to stress and cramped spaces, the mink often cannibalize and kill each other. These photographs make up part of an anti-fur campaign, organized by the Animal Rights Alliance of Sweden.
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Jo-Anne McArthur/We Animals
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