A YouGov poll earlier this year revealed that 93% of the British population reject wearing real animal fur, with 72% supporting a ban on the sale of fur in the UK.
CAMERON FREW: Fur sales will be banned following the UK’s departure from the European Union, under plans being drawn up by ministers… While fur farming was banned back in 2003, UK law still allows the product to be imported from overseas, with France being one of the most prolific suppliers alongside Denmark, Finland, the US, Italy, Poland and Canada…
The action is being spearheaded by Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and a close friend and political ally of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancée Carrie Symonds, also an animal rights campaigner… This also comes after former CEO of the association, Mike Moser, announced his support for HSI’s #FurFreeBritain campaign, describing the practice as ‘barbaric’…
Humane Society International’s (HSI) executive director Claire Bass said: ‘We welcome signs that the UK government is taking seriously public calls for a fur sales ban, because that is what the vast majority of British citizens want, and that is the morally and politically consistent thing to do.’ She added: ‘The UK banned fur farming two decades ago precisely because it’s an inherently cruel business, so we cannot in good conscience continue to sell fur from millions of animals suffering overseas.’
The British Fur Trade Association will lobby against the proposed ban, describing it as ‘irrational, illiberal and misjudged… those that shout the loudest seldom have the support of the majority or their moral backing’… A YouGov poll earlier this year commissioned by HSI/UK revealed that 93% of the British population reject wearing real animal fur, with 72% supporting a ban on the sale of fur in the UK. SOURCE…
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