Farms: Hodgson's Mink Farm | Ontario, Canada | undercover footage

Undercover footage of mink factory farms in Ontario, Canada collected in the summer of 2015. Communique: "Over the summer of 2015, we visited Willow Pond Fur Farm at 105 Maple Grove Road in Scotland, ON. We documented injured mink with gaping wounds and mink that were too ill to even move. The ground at the farm was covered in feces. Animals were forced to breathe in a toxic odour of urine and feces and did not have access to water. This factory farm has a large waste containment unit at the rear. There is no fence and no other security measures to protect the farm were observed. We also visited Hodgson's Mink Farm at 423 Erie Street South in Wheatley, ON. The mink here are forced to live in cramped wire cages just as at the Willow Pond factory farm - with little room for movement. We also documented the mink being fed rancid food filled with maggots. This industrial scale farm has advanced security with a fence that has a movement sensor, multiple security cameras and guard dogs. Also visited was the Parkinson Fur Farm at 5675 4th Line in Guelph/Eramosa, ON. There were several mink sheds observed but there were no cages and they appeared to have been decommissioned and were being used for storage. The good people of Ontario will not stand for this cruel treatment of animals. Confining animals in horrific conditions where their movement and normative behaviours are restricted, where they are denied medical treatment for severe injuries obtained in captivity, and where they are forced to breathe toxic fumes from their own excrement is despicable and shameful. This perversion of nature must end. We call on the government of Ontario and the Federal Government to enact legislation banning the farming of fur bearing animals and to enact legislation that ALL animals be classified as sentient beings and not as property. We also call on the fur farmers of Ontario to close down your fur farms and find new and rewarding careers that don't profit from the misery of animals. If you don't close these farms, we will close them for you. The Real Humane Society Animal Liberation Front"