Mink and fox farmer Palmer Erickson dead at 83. Palmer Erickson lived to see something that was long overdue:  in his final days, anonymous liberators opened cages and released 1,500 mink from his fur farm. Erickson died of esophageal cancer this week, shortly after this action. Since at...

Images of the recent fire at the Utah Fur Breeders Agricultural Co-op. On December 19th, one of the most important businesses in the US fur industry went up in flames. The Fur Breeders Agricultural Cooperative caught fire and suffered major damage after a welder’s torch ignited the roof....

Utah Fur Breeders Co-op burns down for the second time. A fire broke out at the country’s largest fur feed supplier around 10:30 AM Monday. The fire raged out of control until 2pm and was not fully extinguished for many hours. The building was reported as “heavily...

It is unknown if security cameras at a Lebanon, Oregon mink farm have deterred the release of mink by the A.L.F. However this week, they failed to prevent the theft of the cameras themselves. Police reported this week that two of an Oregon mink farm’s night vision security cameras had...

Fur farmers attending a county council meeting to support a Morgan, Utah anti-fur farm protest ordinance hadn’t considered one thing: by being present, their names were now public record. As an unintended consequence, one previously unknown fur farm unknowingly exposed its location to...

Activists will from across the country will be converging on Morgan, Utah for Fur Free Saturday (November 28th). Morgan is the largest fur farming town in the country, with 15 active mink farms. In the spirit of the march to Birmingham in 1965, this convergence will climax in a one mile march...