It has been another busy year in our campaign to end the cruel fur trade and 2025 promises to be even more so. The EU will be considering a fur farming ban in great detail and the UK Parliament will debate and vote on a bill to end the trade in real fur in Britain.  At Respect for Animals, we are the only organisation with staff who experienced the original fur farming ban
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A private members’ bill to end the import and sale of real fur in Britain has been introduced to Parliament by Ruth Jones, Labour MP for Newport West and Islwyn. The bill would extend current trade bans on cat, dogs and seal fur to other species, including mink, foxes, raccoon dogs, chinchillas, coyotes and more. Update: The crucial second reading of the bill will take place on Friday 13 June
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In a monumental victory for animal protection, the Romanian Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to ban chinchilla and mink fur farming, the only two fur farm industries that exist in the country. Romania now becomes the 16th EU Member State to ban fur farming, marking a significant milestone in the global campaign to end the cruel practice of breeding and killing animals for fur fashion. In May 2022, Respect for Animals
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A study of animals and systems in China has found viruses that could infect people are rampant in farms breeding mink, raccoon dogs and foxes for their fur. The public health risks of fur farms have been made apparent in recent years with the worrying outbreaks of Covid-19 and avian flu on mink, fox and raccoon dog fur farms in Europe and North America. The intensive, cramped, caged systems of
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After receiving hundreds of thousands of emails, thousands of phone calls, countless social media posts and even having a hot air balloon flown over its headquarters in Italy asking them to go fur-free, Max Mara Fashion Group has officially announced a fur-free policy. In an internal memo to staff, Max Mara said, “The Company does not sell, online nor in any of its physical retail locations, any products made with
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The Sofia City Administrative Court rejected the mink farm’s appeal against the order issued by the Ministry of Environment and Water to ban the import and breeding of the “American mink” species in Bulgaria. The court’s decision can be appealed to the Supreme Administrative Court. The Administrative Court of Sofia City has issued a decision on the case regarding the ban on the import and breeding of American mink in
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MP Malgorzata Tracz has submitted her bill banning the breeding of animals for fur to Sejm Speaker Szymon Holownia. More than 120 politicians and politicians signed the bill, including Aleksandra Gajewska, Katarzyna Piekarska, Adrian Zandberg, Paulina Hennig-Kloska, Gabriela Lenartowicz, Dorota Olko, and Speaker Szymon Holownia himself. Now the bill will wait for the Speaker to assign a print number to go to further parliamentary work. Małgorzata Tracz’s bill envisages a
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WARSAW, 16 May 2024 – Today, animal advocates from the international coalition Fur Free Alliance have gathered in Warsaw in support of a new Polish fur farming ban proposal due to be submitted soon. Poland is currently the biggest fur producer in Europe. There have been several attempts to introduce a fur farming ban bill in the country. However, all of them failed due to strong lobby activity and lack
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Retailers and brands based in the UK continue to commit to fur free fashion. The popular online womenswear brand Joanie has become one of the latest Fur Free Retailers. Also, the newly launched eponymous brand line of renowned fashion designer Phoebie Philo has joined Fur Free Retailer, another example of high-end fashion opposing the cruelty of fur. Respect for Animals are the UK administrators of the global Fur Free Retailer
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