Minkes on Swedish mink farms have gotten better, but more research is needed. This conclusion is drawn by the Swedish Board of Agriculture, which this week presented the so-called mink investigation.

The authority's claim is nothing more than a betrayal of the minks.

The entire investigation is a betrayal of the hundreds of thousands of individuals who are annually raised and killed on Sweden's mink farms.

Neither more investigations nor more research is needed to show what we already know. And what we already know is reason enough to wind up the fur industry.

Last year, the former government commissioned the Swedish Board of Agriculture to evaluate the welfare of minks in the Swedish fur industry.

The purpose was to investigate whether minks can behave naturally in the way they are kept today on the country's farms. What Swedish legislation requires - the animals should be able to behave naturally.

But the team text will only become empty words on a piece of paper if we take a look at reality.

Minkes are predators that live in the wild alone in large areas. They spend much of their active time in water.

Nevertheless, in Sweden it is allowed to close minks together in minimal net cages without access to, among other things, swimming water.

The law and the reality of the minks on the farms do not go hand in hand.

I really wonder what world you live in if you think that a mink can have an outlet for its natural behavior in a small cage. But at the same time, I wonder if anyone really believes it.

Because it's about something else. It's about us humans seeing other animals like ours to exploit.

If we put the animal's interests first, there would have been no mink farms. It's about financial interests; that you can make money on the fur of other animals.

For several years, in the Animal Rights Alliance, we have documented the situation of minks on a large part of the country's mink farms.

I myself have stood eye to eye with an infinite number of minks with completely intangible fate.

Never that I will forget the intersecting scream a mink gave away as she constantly tried to get away from her siblings. She had nowhere to escape. Her whole head was just an open wound.

Our images and films have aroused despair, anger, frustration and shock in the public.

But despite the fact that a large majority of the Swedish population is against fur farming, the politicians are failing to keep the minks going. By investigation after investigation.

At the same time, the minks pay the price with their lives. Country after country forbids fur farms and Sweden should do the same.

It is about time that we leave today's reprehensible view of animals behind us and create a world we can stand up for - from an ethical perspective.