In one clip a small white mink shivers as it lies on a pile of dead bodies while in another an animal struggles to get away from the gnawed and decomposing corpse of its cage mate.
LUKE ANDREWS: ‘Animal rights activists are calling for the closure of a French fur farm after undercover footage revealed mink crawling over mummified bodies and through their own feces in cages. Shocking video also showed that some of the animals had resorted to cannibalism. The disturbing images are set to intensify calls for the UK to ban the import of animal furs, France being the second biggest supplier, in an industry that was still worth an estimated £70million in the British market last year… A criminal complaint for acts of cruelty has been filed against the farm’s owners.
One Voice campaigners found the shocking scenes after entering the mink breeding farm. In one clip a small white mink shivers as it lies on a pile of dead bodies while in another an animal struggles to get away from the gnawed and decomposing corpse of its cage mate. Pictures from inside the farm showed rotting mink corpses strewn across cages as, in one, grey muck dripped onto the mink that were tightly packed together. The video has been branded some of the ‘most disturbing evidence of farm cruelty’ ever seen by animal rights group Humane Society International.
UK director Claire Bass said the animals appeared ‘tormented and tragic’, adding that it was ‘appalling’ to see this right on the UK’s doorstep. ‘In the wild mink are beautiful, intelligent and inquisitive little animals that dig and hunt and swim and range for miles. ‘The animals in this investigation are like tormented and tragic doppelgangers. ‘The fur trade tries to peddle a myth of fur as elegant and glamorous but I would defy even the most hardened fur-wearer to look at this footage and see anything but misery… Since the footage was released more than 26,000 people have signed a petition calling for the farm to be closed’. SOURCE…
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