Shut down Ireland's fur farms
Ireland's National Animal Rights Association reports that around 200,000 mink are killed every year on Irish fur farms. The animals are kept in filthy cages, with a floor space equivalent of just two shoe boxes in size. They have no access to water, even though they are semi-aquatic animals. Their diet consists of liquidised fish organs, which they are forced to consume by licking it through the top of their cages.
They are forced to live with, and beside, other mink, despite being solitary creatures by nature. This, coupled with the stress of confinement, results in stereotypical psychosis - repetitive behaviour, self-harm, and cannibalism. At 6months of age, they are gassed to death, usually by carbon monoxide. 40 mink are put into the ‘killing box’ at a time, which often leads to them being unconscious, not dead, when they are skinned.
TAKE ACTION
Tell Ireland's Minister for Agriculture to ban fur farming.
Minister Simon Coveney
Department of Agriculture
Agriculture House,
Kildare Street, Dublin 2,
Ireland
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +353 1 60 72 884
They are forced to live with, and beside, other mink, despite being solitary creatures by nature. This, coupled with the stress of confinement, results in stereotypical psychosis - repetitive behaviour, self-harm, and cannibalism. At 6months of age, they are gassed to death, usually by carbon monoxide. 40 mink are put into the ‘killing box’ at a time, which often leads to them being unconscious, not dead, when they are skinned.
TAKE ACTION
Tell Ireland's Minister for Agriculture to ban fur farming.
Minister Simon Coveney
Department of Agriculture
Agriculture House,
Kildare Street, Dublin 2,
Ireland
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +353 1 60 72 884