Fur Farms and Trapping

Vanity kills

Fur no longer seems beautiful to those who know its history. Wild animals are captured in traps that can cause hours of pain. Foxes, mink, rabbits and chinchilla spend their whole lives imprisoned in cramped wire cages just to end up as fur products. These animals suffer both physically and mentally from never experiencing anything but the four walls of their wire cage.

The animals are either electrocuted, gassed or have their necks broken – deaths that are justified by human vanity.

In Norway it wouldn’t be acceptable to keep dogs and cats in cramped wire cages or to kill them for the sake of their fur. Paradoxically though, some of the fur on the international fur market does in fact come from dogs and cats – and they too have been imprisoned in cramped cages and suffered painful deaths.

But the majority of the Norwegian population don’t in fact accept that foxes and minks should be used in this way. In many European countries such as the UK and Sweden, fur production is either partially or totally banned. The Norwegian fur industry is propped up by state subsidies and export to countries where animal rights is still an alien concept.

Today, fur is no longer a status symbol but a sign of ignorance and thoughtlessness. Only those who lack either knowledge or compassion will contribute to animals being imprisoned and killed just so that their bodies can be used as a fur trim along the sleeve of a jacket.