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Norway announces total ban on fur farming
- saiya-jin 9y agoCan't reach the page ('core files updade'?), so commenting just on title: Not that I don't approve general approach and direction, but what about other animals being 'farmed' for fur/leather and other 'components', ie cows? Yes, we use much more of dead animal compared to just fur, but that seems just semantics and has nothing to do with minimizing suffering or any other moral aspect I can think of. If I got it all wrong please correct me, couldn't access the cached version due to proxy restrictions at work.
- wowsig 9y agoFrom the article since you were unable to access. The ban, they say, will be finalized in 2025, when all farms in the country will be shut down. It’s unclear, at the moment, how this will affect the sale of fur (whether Norway intends simply to stop producing it). Norway is a large fur producer with over 300 fur farms, with farms breeding and killing over 700,000 minks and 110,000 foxes every year — simply for their fur. They’re far from the largest manufacturer (that’d be China) but they aren’t the smallest either.
- stmfreak 9y agoFools placing animals rights over human property rights will be coming after meat next.
- simion314 9y agoI am also thinking at the people that work in this industry but on the other hand can't we use other materials? I would add a tax though that could be used for other green projects and not make it illegal.
- jkmcf 9y agoYou mean the property rights humans appropriated from the natives, be they native humans or animals? Might makes right and all that BS? I respect animals since they are generally honest about their intentions. Humans not so much.