Sentences with phrase «mink farming»

Based on a study conducted on their behalf by CE Delft showing the environmental impact of mink farming compared with the production of other clothing, GAIA challenged whether the claim about the eco-friendliness of fur was misleading and could be substantiated.

Cary officials have invited Town and Country Homes back for a second round of discussions about developing a 333 - acre former mink farm into a golf course community, which could keep a nearby parcel of land from becoming a gravel pit unwanted by many neighbors.

The researchers examined data on the size and quality of 10,480 mink born in 2013 - 2014 at the mink farm at Aarhus University's Foulum research centre.

An animal advocacy organization says it went undercover at a mink farm near Guelph, where the OSPCA laid 14 charges last week.

The family lived on an acreage, where her father had a mink farm.

When I was a kid, about 13 or 14, I worked in a berry farm in the summer, got promoted to work at the mink farm across the street in the winter, cleaned a barbar shop on thursdays and also mowed yards whenever the grass would grow.

Not exact matches

For example, we should stop «hunting for sport or furs; farming minks, foxes and other animals for their fur; capturing wild animals (often after shooting their mothers) and imprisoning them in small cages for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 23).

The American mink was brought over to the UK for the fur trade and has been breeding in the wild since the 1950s due to escapes from fur farms and in some cases releases by activists.

She has also called for the ban on mink fur farming.

Before the first reintroduction, in 2000 on a 989 - square - kilometer island off Estonia called Hiiumaa, hunters and a trapper killed the island's entire American mink population, the legacy of a defunct fur farm.

The most farmed such animal is the mink, followed by the fox.

Most famously, he let 1,500 minks go free from a farm in Ontario and was arrested and denied bail for 10 days by a judge who had just granted bail in only one day to a sex offender.

Chris and Lori discuss the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act and the recent sentencing of Kevin Johnson, who released 2000 minks from a farm and was charged under that law.

Only the suffering inflicted by fur farming makes the suffering of both mink and prey species resulting from mink releases look superficially acceptable to animal advocates, and then only to those who don't think deeply about it.