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PETITION UPDATE

Irish Council Against Blood SportsMullingar, Ireland

SEP 3, 2021 —

Ireland’s largest fur farm appears to have shut down ahead of an upcoming ban on cruel fur farming.

When activists from the National Animal Rights Association visited the fur farm near Stradbally in County Laois at the weekend, they witnessed empty cages.

The cages had previously confined thousands and thousands of mink. In the past, the unfortunate creatures could be seen frantically jumping against the bars of the cages in desperate attempts to get free. They paced back and forth and circled repeatedly but their only escape from the cages came on the day they were killed. They were mercilessly grabbed, pulled out and dumped into a box filled with poisonous Carbon Monoxide gas before the fur was pulled from their bodies.

The sight of the empty cages was hailed by NARA as “a great moment…