Fur industry never treats animals kindly

IN the article headlined ‘Fashion for fur survives protests of rights lobby’ (July 30), fur shop owner Caroline Barnardo said all their all their furs came from animals which were well looked after and humanely killed.

Anyone who believes the fur industry treats animals kindly is naive.

To cut costs, fur farmers pack animals into small cages, where they cannot take more than a few steps. They use slaughter methods which keep pelts intact, not those which minimise suffering. Small animals are crammed into boxes and poisoned with hot, unfiltered engine exhaust which is not always lethal; some animals wake up while being skinned. Larger animals have clamps put on their mouths or rods forced into their anuses and are electrocuted.