Animal Equality has revealed its latest investigation into mink farms in Spain, accompanied by more than 650 photographs, and several hours of video footage documenting for the first time the terrible suffering of animals exploited by the fur industry in Spain.

Once more, we reveal the hidden side of animal exploitation to encourage societal debate and lead us to stop seeing other animals as objects to be used for our benefit.

For the first time in Spain, we go behind the closed doors of an industry that ends up killing more than 400,000 animals each year. These are animals that spend their entire lives imprisoned, going quite literally insane inside their cages, innocent animals that end up being skinned to be converted into clothing. In the eyes of this industry the minks are simply goods that will reap economic benefit, but for us they are sentient beings that require us to act in their defence, as we would wish if we were in their place and our lives were at stake.

We have inspected close to 50% of the mink farms in Spain, covering Galicia, The Basque Country, Catalonia, Aragón, Madrid and Castilla-León. Beginning in 2008 the investigation has involved both Animal Equality activists and anonymous supporters entering where fur farmers do not want us to go, with the aim of bringing us one step closer to the end of this industry. In spite of alarms, walls, dogs and security guards, it has been possible to get to the heart of this industry, installing a hidden camera inside their own installations to film how they rip the skin off these animals.

In addition to compiling more than 5,000 photographs of which we offer a high-resolution selection of 650, we have been able to film the lives of the animals in the cages over many hours, their births, their desire for freedom and their deaths... with a documentary soon to be presented showing this reality.

In this pioneering investigation in Spain, it is possible to see minks that have gone completely insane, incessantly moving repetitively from side to side in their cages, how mothers are utilised as reproductive machines and separated from their babies, images of births, fights between minks due to the confinement they are forced to suffer, and hundreds of corpses piled up in containers...

In short, it is possible to see what the fur industry does not want us to know: the history of horror hidden behind each garment made out of, or trimmed with, animal fur.

It is up to us to stop financing this exploitation. We have alternative clothing made of plant-based or synthetic fabrics that do not involve the slavery and deaths of other animals, who like us, want to enjoy their lives in freedom.

Animal Equality continues to investigate and document the reality that animals are forced to endure daily in different sectors, and works day after day to demand a more just world for all, independent of the species we belong to.

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Investigation website - Piel es Asesinato (Fur is Murder)
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