Looking around in today’s society, pending
which suburb or area you are in, you will notice lashes on most women’s eyes.
Some look very heavy, some actually suit the person and help to open up their
eye area. Have you ever wondered where they came from, I mean the lashes not
the person? The ever so popular minklashes, also available in mink brows and much more, have come from fur
farming. Fur farming is in popular demand worldwide.
Report from PETA- “Eighty-five percent of
the fur industry’s skins come from animals
living captive in fur factory farms. These farms can hold
thousands of animals, and their farming practices are remarkably uniform around
the globe. As with other intensive-confinement animal farms, the methods used
in fur factory farms are designed to maximize profits, always at the expense of
the animals.
Painful and Short Lives
The most commonly farmed
fur-bearing animals are minks, followed by foxes. Chinchillas, lynxes, and even
hamsters are also farmed for their fur. Fifty-eight percent of mink farms are
in Europe, 10 percent are in North America, and the rest are dispersed throughout
the world, in countries such as Argentina, China, and Russia.3 Mink farmers
usually breed female minks once a year. There are about three or four surviving
kittens in each litter, and they are killed when they are about 6 months old,
depending on what country they are in, after the first hard freeze. Minks used
for breeding are kept for four to five years. The animals—who are housed in
unbearably small cages—live with fear, stress, disease, parasites, and other
physical and psychological hardships, all for the sake of an unnecessary global
industry that makes billions of dollars annually.
To cut costs, fur farmers pack
animals into small cages, preventing them from taking more than a few steps
back and forth. This crowding and confinement is especially distressing to
minks—solitary animals who may occupy up to 2,500 acres of wetland habitat in
the wild. The anguish and frustration of life in a cage leads minks to
self-mutilate—biting at their skin, tails, and feet—and frantically pace and
circle endlessly. Zoologists at Oxford University who studied captive minks
found that despite generations of being bred for fur, minks have not been
domesticated and suffer greatly in captivity, especially if they are not given
the opportunity to swim. Foxes, raccoons, and other animals suffer just as much
and have been found to cannibalize their cage mates in response to their
crowded confinement. Animals in fur factory farms are fed meat by products
considered unfit for human consumption. Water is provided by a nipple system,
which often freezes in the winter or might fail because of human error”
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