Norway to Shut Down All Mink and Fox Fur Factories By 2025
CHRISTIANNA SILVA: ‘Norway introduced a total ban on fur farming… A statement by the Norwegian animal rights organization NOAH said. Norway has nearly 300 fur farms, which produce fur from 700,000 minks and 110,000 foxes every year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) added. The ban, which will go into full effect once the farms are shut down in 2025, is the result of strong anti-fur campaigns across the country…
“We are thrilled to see such an unequivocal pledge from the Norwegian government to ban all fur farming, and look forward to seeing this important decision receiving the political backing it deserves,” Ruud Tombrock, Executive Director of Humane Society International/EU said in a statement to Newsweek on Monday. “Factory farming wild animals for fur in appallingly deprived conditions is unconscionably cruel, so to see a ban on this dreadful trade in a Scandinavian country is truly historic”…
“Fur farming bans have been introduced in Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, the Netherlands, Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia and the United Kingdom, with bans being considered in Belgium and Luxembourg,” according to the Humane Society International/EU. Fur farming is still legal in the U.S., however, with almost 300 mink farms in 23 states producing 3 million pelts every year, according to the U.S. Fur Commission’. SOURCE…
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