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Update (November 5, 2021): Victory! British Columbia is permanently closing all mink farms in the province over concerns about the risk of COVID-19 posed by fur farms. Breeding minks is now banned across the province, and keeping live minks on farms will be prohibited by April 2023. All operations must be shut down by April 2025.
This move follows an appeal from PETA Honorary Director Pamela Anderson to former British Columbia Premier John Horgan and letters from dozens of concerned PETA supporters, the release of an eyewitness exposé of Canadian mink fur farms—which revealed that minks are forced to live in small wire-floored cages encrusted with feces, with maggot-infested puddles collecting underneath them—pressure from activists, and much more.
But other animals killed for their fur in British Columbia still need your help. Without a ban on all fur farming, chinchillas, foxes, and other animals can still be factory-farmed and killed for their fur. Please urge the new premier, David Eby, to ban all fur farming in British Columbia immediately!
Minks on fur farms all over the world—including in Denmark, Greece, the Netherlands, Spain, and the U.S.—have contracted the novel coronavirus from human workers. Six countries (Denmark, the Netherlands, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, and the U.S.) as well as the Faroe Islands are now reporting a new mink-related SARS-CoV-2 mutation in humans. Denmark started killing all 17 million minks in the country after a mutant strain of the virus spread from minks to humans. And COVID-19 outbreaks have been identified on multiple British Columbia mink farms.
As seen in this PETA video, animals on fur farms are warehoused inside filthy, cramped wire cages amid their own waste. These stressed, injured, and often sick animals are so closely packed together that blood, urine, and excrement can easily contaminate adjacent cages. Not only are these conditions extremely cruel to animals, they also create a perfect breeding ground for dangerous zoonotic diseases, which can jump from other species to humans.
If you’re a British Columbia resident, please join PETA in calling on Premier David Eby to ban fur farms in the province immediately.
Foxes and other fur-bearing animals can be infected by the novel coronavirus and pass it back to humans. These animals are individuals who just want to be left alone to explore, care for their young, and live as they please—they don’t deserve to live in filth and be gassed, bludgeoned, or skinned for fashion.