40,000 Animals Are Neglected, Then Slaughtered for Fur at This Farm

by: Care2 Team
target: Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

42,402 SUPPORTERS – 45,000 GOAL

Millbank Fur Farm — the Ontario, Canada firm that is responsible for supplying pelts to the notoriously cruel fur industry — has just been charged with 14 counts of animal cruelty. The charges, ranging from medical neglect to causing undue distress to the animals in their care come after a recent exposé shined a light on the horrible conditions their minks endure.

Animal rights activists also found several cases of animals with “open, untreated wounds and infections, and documents a lack of adequate and sanitary mink shelters and food.”

What’s even more shocking is the fact that while undercover, activists didn’t see a single veterinarian. Not one single vet at a farm that houses around 40,000 minks.

After the findings came to…