Spring Muskrat Trapping in Quebec
It was a crisp, bright morning in early April when I set out for my first lesson in Spring muskrat trapping. I had agreed…
It was a crisp, bright morning in early April when I set out for my first lesson in Spring muskrat trapping. I had agreed…
Over the past months, several prominent designer brands have announced that their collections will henceforth be “fur free”. Animal activists have been quick to…
The growing media and public interest in sustainability – especially among young people – provides an extraordinary opportunity for the fur trade. To understand…
Like any business, fur retailing has its challenges, and some would say the challenges have never been tougher. But could there also be exciting…
Animal-rights activists argue that we are not morally justified to kill animals for any purpose, and certainly not for products they consider to be…
Anti-fur protesters today are an established part of our autumn scenery, like falling leaves or the southbound migration of Canada geese. But, in fact,…
The fur retailing season is beginning, and with it we can expect the usual flurry of fur protests. Despite decades of anti-fur campaigning, activists…
Gucci CEO Marco Bizzarri puzzled many when he recently announced that the prestigious design label would go “fur-free” in 2018. The confusion wasn’t about…
It has been some 35 years since I began promoting the ethical credentials of the fur trade and denouncing the fallacies of animal-rights extremism….