With over 135 million animals slaughtered for their fur every year, animal rights campaigners have been calling for a general ban on the sale of fur for years.
DAN HALL: ‘Crammed in cages, dripping with bloody wounds and eating each other alive. This is the dark reality of life for the millions of helpless animals reared in European fur factories that supply UK companies. The Queen banned the use of fur in an any of her new clothes… she has decided to ditch animal fur in favour of ethical alternatives — but she won’t chuck controversial coats that she already owns…
But Brits have spent a staggering £700 million on imported fur since 2003 which is still worn on a daily basis, with over 135 million animals slaughtered for their fur every year. Animal rights campaigners have been calling for a general ban on the sale of fur for years because of the brutal conditions fur farms keep animals in…
Last November, investigators told of deplorable conditions and animal suffering at two fur farms in Finland. Both centres had been certified by fur industry chiefs as “high welfare”. But the sleuths found conditions at the randomly selected farms were inhumane. One of the fur centres in question housed an estimated 12,000 mink — a small mammal around 12-18 inches long native to North and South America and Europe.
Distressing footage also showed foxes with “deformed feet and diseased eyes, and mink with open infected wounds, some even driven to cannibalism”, according to Humane Society International (HSI)… A sting by Finnish animal rights group Animal Justice found foxes fattened to five times their usual weight. The foxes were kept in tiny cages and were barely able to move…
Britain banned fur farming in 2003 on animal cruelty grounds, but fur imports arrive every year — including £14m worth from Finland since the ban. Much of it originally came from China, the US, France, Italy and Poland… Rights groups also say a lack of labelling tricks some shoppers into buying real fur when they think they are buying fake. In 2017, an investigation found real fur being incorrectly sold as faux fur in British high street stores including House of Fraser and Missguided’. SOURCE…
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