Film released for the first time today showing conditions in a mink farm in Ireland will be used as evidence in a submission to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine urging the government to honour the commitment to ban fur factory farming. The film shows mink in tiny, barren, filthy wire cages. Some animals are clearly suffering with untreated wounds and piles of mink faeces can be seen in their cramped cages. A group of Irish and International animal welfare organisations have joined forces in an effort to ensure this Irish government does not renege on the previous government’s policy of a phase out of fur farming.