{"id":15865,"date":"2025-12-08T17:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=15865"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:44:36","slug":"mink-farming-may-be-finished-in-the-state-of-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2025\/12\/08\/mink-farming-may-be-finished-in-the-state-of-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Mink farming may be finished in the state of Illinois!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15867\" src=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink2-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink2-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink2-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink2.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Last month, activists visited the only remaining mink farm in the state, the Monteleone Mink Ranch in Elgin, owned by convicted child molester Frank Monteleone.<\/p>\n<p>Although not all of the sheds were closely inspected, most were empty or in very bad shape, and the stacks of cages at the back of the property is a good sign! (If the farm is still operating, it is a much smaller operation.)<\/p>\n<p>For a list, by state, of all remaining US Fur Farms: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/finalnail.com\">finalnail.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15868\" src=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink3-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink3-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink3-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink3-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink3.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15866\" src=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MonteleoneMink1.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, activists visited the only remaining mink farm in the state, the Monteleone Mink Ranch in Elgin, owned by convicted child molester Frank Monteleone. Although not all of the sheds were closely inspected, most were empty or in very bad shape, and the stacks of cages at the back of the property is a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2025\/12\/08\/mink-farming-may-be-finished-in-the-state-of-illinois\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15869,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions\/15869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}