The fur industry keeps receiving blows. From aboveground campaigning with CAFT in the USA and throughout Europe by many autonomous groups to underground activity by anonymous folks who during the pelting season last year released mink in multiple farms across USA and who kept striking through sabotage over winter.
Now, NAALPO has released last year’s sales figures and things are looking quite bleak:
“The US Department of Agriculture has just released statistics on US fur production for 2022. There has been a 15% reduction in the number of animals killed for their fur since 2021. Total value of the animal skins was down 17% from the previous year, and the price per skin was only $29.40, down another $0.60 from 2021.
Importantly, the number of female mink bred to produce the 2023 population was down 31%, foretelling another significant decrease in deaths expected for 2023.
The fur industry in the US is on the ropes, and we can finish it off. More economic sabotage and farm liberations, combined with continued forceful campaigning to stop designers and retailers from dealing in this barbaric trade will abolish the fur industry in the US.”
Meanwhile, an anonymous submission to Unsalted CounterInfo leaked a list of smallholding fox fur farms in the USA:
“An estimated 25 to 50 fox farms remain in the United States. These are a few of the backyard operations confining and killing foxes, a genetically wild species native to North America:
Schmuecker Fox Farm
7796 15th Avenue Trail
Luzerne, IA 52257
Price Fox Farm
4850 Highway 141
Norris City, IL 62869
Natural Fibers (Joe & Marie McFadden)
17519 L Drive S
Marshall, MI 49068
Fox Haven (James & Judith Brown)
1806 E Hinchman Road
Berrien Springs, MI 49103
Matthew Kieffer Fox Farm
6896 Partridge Road
Pierz, MN 56364
Coats of Many Colors Fox Ranch (Jean Glass)
37493 378th Street
Richville, MN 56576
Fredrick Halvorson
39306 Highway 52
Cannon Falls, MN 55009
Mid-Missouri Fox Farm (David W. Moyer)
12640 Derstler Road
Richmond, MO 64085
Sky Dog Ranch (Sky & Eileen Halsey)
6913 US Highway 12
Martinsdale, MT 59053
John and Peggy Smeal
963 County Road F
Scribner, NE 68057
Circle R Fox Ranch (William Ridenour)
1895 Riggle Road
Bellville, OH 44813
Grand River Fur Exchange (Mark Gutman)
6310 US Highway 6
Rome, OH 44085
Fox farm & urine farm (urine is collected from captive coyotes and foxes to create lures for trappers.)”
With so much ramping up against fur farming, how much longer does the fur industry have before it collapses? What are the most important targets that would bring it down? What is the critical infrastructure that upholds the fur industry, and how can you fight to send it into oblivion?
Fight back!
UA.
