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A fur farm in Ostrobothnia, Finland Map of countries that banned fur farming. A mink farm (after 1900) A mink farm in the United States A mink farm in Poland. Fur farming is the practice of breeding or raising certain types of animals for their fur. Most of the world's farmed fur was produced by European farmers.
The last fur farm in Scotland closed in 1993, but rural development minister Ross Finnie nevertheless said the Scottish act was "very necessary", adding that "It would be somewhat perverse to have one part of the UK paying compensation to ban fur farming only to allow it to relocate and start up a fresh business in another part of the UK." [3]
Fur farming and the manufacture of fake fur both stress the environment. Fur farms use natural fur to create commercial fur products, and fake fur is obtained from other resources. Fur farms implement sustainable, efficient operating practices to mature minks, raccoons and foxes, using animal waste as additional fuel to power the farm and ...
"Fur" rabbits are fed a diet especially balanced for fur production and the pelts are harvested when they have reached prime condition. Rabbit fur is widely used throughout the world. China imports much of its fur from Scandinavia (80%), and some from North America (5%), according to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service GAIN Report CH7607.
Mink pelts at Kopenhagen Fur. The mink industry in Denmark produced 40 percent of the world's pelts.Denmark used to be the largest producer of mink skins in the world. [1] [2] Ranked third in Denmark's agricultural export items of animal origin, fur and mink skins have a yearly export value of about €500 million.
The first records of attempts of mink farming are found around Cassadaga Lakes, New York, during the American Civil War. These attempts were made to provide soldiers with warm clothing for the winter. [13] The first mink fur farming attempts in Canada were done from around 1866 to 1887 by Patterson Bros. in Richmond, Ontario. [14]
The Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT) is an informal international coalition of grassroots groups that campaign against the production and use of animal fur for clothing and other items. It started in the US in the 1990s, when fur farms were being raided during the Animal Liberation Front 's Operation Bite Back .
Siberian fur trader at the fair in Leipzig, Saxony (c. 1800). Russians used several methods of acquiring the fur pelts from the Siberian furriers: yasak, purchase, confiscation, hunting expeditions, trade with natives, and in much later years, fur farming of the most valued animals. [6]