Links; press information etc.
At present we devote our links section to articles and evidence to show that fur is in line with new Conservation thinking, and debunking the animal rights movement.
This will be useful in dealing with many of your questions should you think fur unethical; it is quite the opposite.
This section will also be of interest to journalists who wish to find balance against animal rights spokespeople. However; do not expect your newspaper to publish what you find : remember animal rights organisations have huge advertising budgets so editors quote them often unchallenged.
Those of you who know horses know the vile propaganda against the racing and horse world too.
The same bigotry aganst fox hunting has been also against fur; and often against indigenous native hunting peoples. It is time to stand together; to protect the countryside and wilderness from urban and corporate ignorance and hypocrisy; side by side with true Conservationists.
It may not have occurred to many that the most hunted mammal predators on the planet are the most succesful; the fox and mink; also used by man for fur for millennia. Long may it be so. A society that does not need animals is the society which presents animals with their greatest foe in history: for they will use their habitat instead as an alternative resource.
The Rio declaration on the Environment defends the principle that indigenous people can manage their environment sustainably using traditional methods and practices. This is because it is what has conserved the wilderness thus far.
The animal rights movement and various governments including Britain are in clear breach of that declaration.
You will discover in our links why most Conservationists now support fur and sustainable animal use and why many organsations, including the one who indirectly donated £1 million to New Labour, are consistently refused entry to the World Conservation Union, because their ideas compromise Conservation ideals.
Animal Rights make snuff propaganda movies when evidence is lacking
The evidence that much animal rights propaganda uses snuff film making:
Brendan O'Neill on fur
And Brendan O'Neill in the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/mar/19/whyfurishumane
Fur is Green: a Conservation perspective
The "Fur is Green" campaign of fashion designer Paula Lishman who is married to famous Conservationist husband William Lishman.
How the people of the north, some of whose furs we buy for our garments when possible, live
when possible we include native furs in some garments as this is the most direct way we can help REAL free trade support their traditional way of life and stop the relentless destruction of their lands for non renewable resources. Native people have centuries of experience managing animals sustainably. Sometimes we also have complete garments made with native furs in stock; and sometimes chokers etc from the Sioux, Cree and so on. At present for example we have a Cree sheared beaver coat and a red fox piece coat and from time to time we have hats and other items made in Siberia. Check out for example the Cree gallery to show how beaver is eaten. Beaver is also prolific in Cree lands whee they encourage them. In many urban areas of Canada, they are treated as a pest and exterminated as they flood land yet in these same urban areas you get anti fur sentiment.
http://www.arcticphoto.co.uk/gallery2/arctic/peoples/peoples.htm
Josie Appleton in Spiked online on fur
The new philosophy on fur from Josie Appleton in Spiked online:
Peta Kills Animals
The expose of the Corporation who have been secretly doing this while telling your fur is cruel:
Sustainable use in the Arctic
Sustainable use is now the target of true Conservation Organisations as less damaging to habitats than alternaives. Fur is an infinitely renewable resource.
The Inuit View: Save the baby veal
Anti fur sentiment hurts aboriginal people. We buy furs from a variety of native peoples when possible and it is important you heed their words.
The Inuit View: their responses to celebs like Paul McCartney
The sinister Evidence of political reasons behind a fur farm welfare report being doctored.
For what possible reason would animal welfare scientsts commissioned by Brussels to research animal welfare on fur farms have their findings doctored and altered? They are adamant its for "political reasons". Maybe because fur farms stand in the way of more sisniter land use. Here is their evidence published in outrage. Yes...no surprise to us they atually found furbearers better treated than any other farmed animals. Mink for example are one of the only domesticated animals weaned correctly. Read from page 6: http://ec.europa.eu/food/fs/sc/scah/out74_en.pdf
What is animal welfare on fur farms really like?
And if you want to see what conditions on fur farms are really like look here. An appalling crime of slander and libel has been committed against these people who care for the animals to the highest possble standards; and the western press has allowed the con bcause they receive so much in AR propganda advertising. Well here you can s for yourslf the animals are kept in very fine conditions: they HAVE to be to produce the finest furs.
a reminder of where Animal Rights ideas came from
The basis of animal rights ideology in Nazism: Also copy and paste http://www.social-ecology.org/article.php?story=20040611140817458
world conservation union sustainable use policy
"Embracing The World’s Resources: A Global Conservation Vision " was published in 2003. Its by Eugene Lapointe the former director General of CITES and is now head of the IWMC (World Conservation Union). Anyone who realises that fur is just one part of animal rights and eco swindle that has actually been responsible for bringing animals close to extinction should familiarise themsleves with their site: