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River Island joins Fur Free Retailer

5th May 2021

Respect for Animals is delighted to welcome leading High Street brand River Island as the latest member of the international […]

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Fur Free Retailer program welcomes internationally-renowned sports brand adidas

8th May 2025

Sportswear giant adidas announced to commit to a fur-free future and join the global Fur Free Retailer program. While adidas

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Pressure On The Government For A Fur Free UK

12th February 2021

Three senior Labour ministers have written to Liz Truss calling for a Fur-Free Britain, supporting the aims of Respect for Animals’ Early Day Motion 267 on banning fur imports.

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Mink farms in Ireland will be shut down ‘by the end of the year’

12th February 2021

Successive governments have pledged to ban fur farming in Ireland for some years now, after a campaign co-led by Respect

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Sweden shuts down mink fur farming

27th January 2021

Sweden will ban breeding of mink in 2021 to prevent the risk of mutations of the coronavirus spreading to humans,

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Ireland: mink to be culled and not replaced after Covid-19 mink mutation

20th November 2020

The Republic of Ireland’s Chief Medical Officer has advised the government to cull the mink on Ireland’s three mink farms,

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Ask Denmark to ban fur farming of mink

21st October 2025

As Denmark slaughters 17 million mink, after a Covid-19 mutation infected humans from mink caused by factory farm conditions, it is time for Denmark to end fur farming permanently.

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