Only a few years ago, seeing scores of women strolling around New York City in real animal fur coats would have seemed unimaginable.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A caged arctic fox. Photo by Claire Bass, via Humane Society International. The Minneapolis City Council adopted a new code last ...

In early August 2023, Finland’s food authority ordered three of the nation’s fur farms to slaughter 50,000 of their animals. The purpose was not to create new fur coats, but to stop a virus: the H5N1 ...

As Poland exits fur farming and fashion weeks institute bans, the European Commission's March 2026 response could define the future of fur in Europe.

As coronavirus tears through the world’s mink farms, the pandemic is accelerating the shuttering of a controversial industry. Earlier this month, the Danish government ordered the country’s mink farms ...

Twin concerns of cruelty and protection from COVID-19 are behind a new bipartisan proposal in the U.S. House of Representatives that would ban the sale, purchase, import and export of mink. H.R. 4310, ...

SHANGCUN/SHANGHAI, China, Dec 3 (Reuters) - As millions of mink are culled in Europe amid fears they could spread the novel coronavirus, struggling Chinese suppliers are defying calls for their ...

Lars Holten Hansen spent the first Saturday in November in his barn in northern Denmark, killing the mink that his family had raised for two generations. His partner, Rina Skjøth, who designs jewelry ...