A collapsing fur farming industry brings negligible economic benefits but very consequential health threats On December 1, Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki signed a law phasing out fur farming, making his country the 23rd of the 28 European Union member states to abolish the industry. This was a major step toward ending the mink fur trade … Read more
Killing beautiful animals for fur was, since dawn of Homo sapiens, a matter of animal sacrifice for human warmth. Fur-wearing, you could say, was coldly utilitarian. Over the last few centuries, the fur industry procured its commodity by killing free-roaming wild animals with deadly and indiscriminate body-gripping traps. Within the last century, it added to … Read more