80 percent of furs sold are the skins of minks kept throughout their lives on mink farms. Minks are intensely sensitive to stress and noise; and living, giving birth, and dying all under human control is a stressful life. They are treated merely as objects to serve the exclusive minority of people who buy fur products. It shouldn’t happen at all. - See more at: http://friendsofanimals.org/programs/fur/trapping-fur-bearing-animals#sthash.P9vrfL0f.dpuf