Norway is phase out fur farms by 2025 , grant to an ecstaticpress statementreleased by the animal rights organization NOAH .
Once one of the creation ’s top producers of pelts , allot tothe Guardian , Norway currently generates about $ 46 million in tax revenue from 200 remaining fur farms . EcoWatchestimates that approximately 700,000 mink coat and 110,000 fox are killed each yr .
“ After 28 yr of battle against pelt farming NOAH can finally cheer for victory ! The fresh regime political program is in favour of the remotion of fur farming in Norway , ” NOAH exclaimed . “ January 14 will be a felicitous day for the pelt animate being and for all who have struggle for them . ”
Reacting to the news , Norwegian pelt breeder argue that their farms already comply with stern national animal welfare regulations . Only one yr ago , the rural area ’s parliament supposedly put the long - moot upshot to layer bymandating the adoptionof sustainable practices . Among other experimental condition , pelt farmers had to agree to be monitored by WelFur , a third - company judgment platform for European pelt producer that claim to be “ unconditionally the world ’s most advanced animal welfare assessment programme to be implemented on a continental level , ” according to theirwebsite .
The change in policy stems from a coalition compromise between the Conservative political party of prime pastor Erna Solberg and the anti - fur loose party . The farmers must level their businesses before a 2024 deadline .
Two recent newspaper headline - generating event have been cited as bolstering the surge in pro - sensual sentiment among the Norwegian voting base . First was the 2014 release of a PETA - grow unmasking film that capture footage of dismaying weather condition at pelt farm in Norway and other countries that qualify for the so - called"origin assured"label . Second , a 2016 protest organise by NOAH drew 13,000 marcher in Oslo and other cities , making it the largest anti - fur protest in European account ( hey , 13,000 people is a lot for a body politic of 5.2 million , which is roughly the same population as the metropolis of Milan ) .
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Immediately following the victorious proclamation , animal welfare organizations around the world divvy up in the festivity and hailed Norway as a leader in the progress against inhuman treatment .
" We are thrilled to see such an definitive pledge from the Norwegian governing to ban all fur agriculture , and look forward to seeing this authoritative conclusion receiving the political mount it deserves , " said Ruud Tombrock , Executive Director of Humane Society International / EU , in a assertion . " Factory farming unfounded animals for pelt in appallingly deprived precondition is unconscionably cruel , so to see a Bachelor of Arts in Nursing on this dreadful swap in a Scandinavian country is truly historical . "
Norway now connect the ranks of Austria , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia , Czech Republic , Denmark , the Netherlands , Republic of Macedonia , Serbia , Slovenia , and the United Kingdom – European nations with pelt farming bans in berth .
The lead suppliers of pelt intersection are China and Finland .
