Kristian Vigenin, MEP: This new study gives us even stronger grounds to demand legislation that ensures no trade is allowed to benefit from cruelty and ecological damage within the single market.

@spietikainen.bsky.social: Let’s make a fair transition for everyone!

@spietikainen.bsky.social: It is a dying industry. It will go away. And it is understandable there is frustration among fur farmers. But this frustration should not be the reason to go on. It is a cruel and unethical industry and this is one of the reasons why this business is going away.

Mike Moser: “The fur industry knows its days are numbered. It’s economically unviable. It’s time to support a just transition from fur farming to more economically viable sectors.”

Mike Moser, former Director of Standards for the International Fur Federation and former Chief Executive for the British Fur Trade: “There’s no doubt about it, fur farms are hideous places.”

The True Cost of Fur shows EU fur industry in serious decline. In the last decade, the number of animals killed for fur is down 86%, number of fur farms is down by 73% & value of sales is down 92%. There’s no future in fur. We call on @ec.europa.eu to end cruel fur farming for good

Griffin Carpenter, author of the report, explains the findings showing #EU #furfarming is in serious economic decline, it’s been unprofitable for years.

The new paper, for example, cites this paper from last year from @eddieholmes.bsky.social and others on spillover-potential CoVs on fur farms (which we did cover at the time). How many times do people have to be told before they understand the problem??

www.nature.com/articles/s41...