Greens launch fur farming campaign

THE Green Party last night launched a parliamentary campaign to ban fur farming, saying it was a “very clandestine activity” which was cruel to animals.

However, as the debate on the party’s private members’ bill to prohibit the practice opened last night, it became immediately clear the Government was going to oppose it.

There are six mink farms operating in the country under licence, one of which also farms silver and arctic foxes. No details were given as to their location, other than that five are located in the Border-Midlands-West (BMW) region.