Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFTUSA) exists to forever end the killing of wildlife for their fur.
Recently, anonymous aboveground activists conducted research of east coast fur farms, with the purpose of determining operational status and the number of active fur farms in the eastern United States, primarily Pennsylvania and New York.
Of the 18 farms visited, only one farm was confirmed as an active mink farm, the Stahl mink farm in Sunbury, PA (4130 SR 890). One fox farm was inconclusive, the Pacuchinski fox farm in upstate NY (2730 Lenox Road, Collins, NY). The remaining 16 others have shuttered. We found dilapidated and decayed sheds, and sheds that once confined mink were full of derelict machinery and various tools.
The number of operational U.S. mink farms is now under 100, down
from over 400 in the 1990s and 274 just ten years ago. Estimates of
active U.S. fox farms put the number between 25 and 50.
Last year, the Animal Liberation Front liberated over 15,000 mink
from U.S. fur farms. In recent years, global pressure campaigns have
seen nine designers go fur free. This is the grim state of the fur
trade.
As the fur industry teeters on the brink of collapse, it’s up to all of us to do what it takes to ensure this industry nevewr recuperates. Activist efforts and a diversity of tactics can destroy this industry that preys on native wildlife.
Look for the latest updates of closures and active fur farms at finalnail.com.
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Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFTUSA) exists to forever end
the killing of wildlife for their fur. CAFT currently organized
protest campaigns against LVMH and Max Mara around the world to
demand that fashion finally stops using fur.
The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and other anonymous activists
utilize economic sabotage in addition to the direct liberation of
animals from conditions of abuse and imprisonment to halt needless
animal suffering. By making it more expensive to trade in the lives
of innocent, sentient beings, they maintain the atrocities against
our brothers and sisters are likely to occur in smaller numbers;
their goal is to abolish the exploitation, imprisonment, torture and
killing of all innocent, non-human animals.
A copy of the Final Nail, a listing of known fur farms in North America, is available here: https://finalnail.wordpress.com/