Update on Teresa Platt since leaving the Fur Commission. Part fourteen in a thirty-article series this month on the ALF’s fur farm campaign. If ever there was a real-life Cruella De Vil, it was Teresa Platt. After previous director Marsha Kelly left the Fur Commission in 1996 (she quit...

Part five in a thirty-article series this month on the ALF’s fur farm campaign A poll in the fur industry newsletter Fur Farm Letter placed “the animal rights movement” as the biggest problem facing the North American fur farming industry. From reading fur industry newsletters...

Read an article from The Fur Farm Letter on dealing with “threats” from animal rights activists. Part three in a thirty-article series this month on the ALF’s fur farm campaign For decades, a magazine called Fur Rancher was the only publication written specifically for fur...

Thirty articles in thirty days on the ALF’s war against the fur industry. We are in the middle of what the fur industry calls “the pelting season”, the time from late-November to early-December when over 2 million animals on fur farms across the US are killed. To honor them,...

In a letter, government refuses release of public records due to potential for “vandalism”. This week a reader submitted a letter they received from the Utah Dept. of Natural Resources, rejecting a formal request for the release of all licensed fur farms in the state. The request...

Read the 1998 article on securing fur farms, written at the height of the ALF fur farm campaign. Following up with the release of the Fur Commission USA document “Site Security: Strategies and Protocols“, I am posting a 1998 prequel: “A Comprehensive Security Plan for Mink...