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Some Comments on the Review of Nimon and Broom on the Welfare of Farmed Mink

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2023

C M Vinke
C M Vinke*
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Department of Animals and Society, Utrecht University, Yalelaan 17, 3584 CL Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Fur-farming is a politically sensitive issue today. Therefore, discussions on the welfare situation of commercially farmed fur animals may be particularly valuable. The aim of this Short Communication is to address some issues, in addition to those covered in the review of Nimon and Broom on the welfare of farmed mink (Animal Welfare 1999, 8: 205-228), that may have received too little attention. This Short Communication addresses domestication and animal welfare, indispensable resources and behaviours of farmed mink, and the use of negative and positive indicators of welfare in research on farmed mink.

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animal welfaredomesticationessential needsmink

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Animal Welfare , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , August 2001 , pp. 315 - 323
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© 2001 Universities Federation for Animal Welfare

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