Overview of fur farming in Ontario:

• There are 40 fur farms in Ontario.  The majority of which are mink farms and some fox, rabbit, and chinchilla farm operations to a lesser degree.
• Animals are housed in small wire cages and restricted from performing mandatory natural behaviours such as swimming and boroughing (mink are semi-aquatic animals and spend 60% of their time in water in nature). This restriction in addition to extended periods of inactivity causes frustration, boredom, deformities, distress and results in abnormal repetitive behaviour such as self mutilation, pacing, cage biting, and other stereotypicacies. Causing animals to be in a state of distress is a violation of the OSPCA Act. This form of captivity essentially inflicts physical and psychological trauma and is considered cruel by many countries.
• Farming animals for fur has been occurring for only roughly 100 years. Unlike other farmed animals mink and fox remain undomesticated and do not possess traits like docility and fear humans. These fur bearing species genotypes are unsuitable for farming.  
• Animals are killed inhumanely by electrocution or suffocation.