... and commercials want you to believe. Of course, this is very far from the truth. These ads fail to show how the original owners of these coats met their gruesome deaths. Millions of fur bearing animals- including foxes, raccoons, minks, coyotes, bobcats, lynxes, opossums, beavers, otters, nutria, muskrats and others- are killed each year. The reason why, you may ask? For human being's sick obsession with "fashion." Due to public concern over cruelty, sales of furs have decreased in recent years, driving many furriers and fur traders out of business for good. But, despite this dramatic decline, millions of animals are still suffering from fur farms and trappers, and there are signs that the year after year fall in fur sales is beginning to slow. Today, around 85 per cent of the pelts produced by the fur trade originate on fur farms. Despite efforts by the industry to cast ...

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