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The Fur
Industry
The fur ads we see in magazines
and commercials portray fur
coats as a symbol of elegance.
But these ads fail to show how
the original owners of these coats
met their gruesome deaths.
Approximately 3.5 million furbearing animals--raccoons, coyotes, bobcats, lynxes, opossums, nutria, beavers, muskrats, otters, and others--are killed each year by trappers in the United States. Another 2.7 million animals are raised on fur "farms." Despite the fur industry's attempts to downplay the role of trapping in fur "production," it is estimated that more than half of all fur garments come from trapped animals.
Some people believe that animals raised in captivity on fur "ranches" do not suffer. This is not the case. Trapping and "ranching" have both similar and disparate cruelties involved, and neither is humane. "Ranched" animals, mostly minks and foxes, spend their entire lives in appalling conditions, only to be killed by painful and primitive methods.
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