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Urge Etsy to Ban Fur From Its Website!

Etsy, an online global marketplace, claims to be committed to having a positive social impact. However, it continues to allow its users to sell items made of fur stolen from tormented animals. Before their fur ends up being sold on Etsy, foxes, rabbits, minks, and other animals spend their entire lives confined to filthy cages before finally being beaten, electrocuted, gassed, or skinned alive.

The fur industry also poses a risk to public health. Fur farms packed with sick and stressed animals have become breeding grounds for diseases and have been identified as COVID-19 hotspots around the world.

Etsy prides itself on selling an array of fashionable and artistic items, but there’s nothing artistic or fashionable about killing animals. The company has a policy on animal-derived products that prohibits the sale of items made with the body parts of endangered species, ivory, bones from ivory-producing animals, or materials derived from cats and dogs. A ban on fur should be part of these restrictions. 

Hundreds of other companies have already banned fur, and we’re calling on Etsy to do the same.

Sign our petition urging Etsy to update its Prohibited Items Policy with a fur ban.

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Dear Ms Moskowitz,

I was deeply disappointed to learn that items made of real fur are sold on Etsy. 

It’s shocking that, even after hearing from PETA US that animals who are killed for fur suffer immensely, your company still allows fur to be sold on its website. 

Etsy claims to be a company that strives to lead with optimism and that focuses on sustainability and responsibility. Yet continuing to allow sellers to offer items made of fur – for which animals spend their entire lives confined to filthy cages before finally being beaten, electrocuted, gassed, or skinned alive – is anything but sustainable or responsible. Hundreds of other companies have already banned fur, and it’s time that Etsy got on board! 

If your company really wants to make a positive impact, please take a stand against the violent fur trade and ban the sale of fur immediately. 

Yours sincerely,

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