Urge Your MP to Support a #FurFreeBritain

The fur industry is cruel, barbaric, and unnecessary. Millions of animals suffer and die every year for nothing more than bobble hats, keyrings, and fur trim. The vast majority of Brits (95%) refuse to wear fur, more and more designers no longer work with it, and even Her Majesty the Queen has ditched it from her wardrobe. Even though fur farming has been banned in the UK for almost 20 years, fur is still imported for sale in stores nationwide, effectively condoning animal suffering.

As numerous PETA exposés of fur farms have revealed, minks, foxes, raccoons, and many other animals who are farmed for their fur spend their entire lives being driven insane by confinement to cramped, filthy wire cages. Neglected and often left suffering from untreated injuries and infections, they’re finally beaten to death, electrocuted, gassed, or skinned alive.

It’s simple: the production of fur always involves extreme suffering and a painful death.

On 31 May, the UK government launched a month-long call for evidence asking for the public’s views on the fur trade. More than 30,000 people responded, and their views will now be considered as the government analyses the responses and potentially develops legislation to ban the importation and sale of fur. Early Day Motion (EDM) 193 has been tabled, calling for the government to bring forward this legislation without delay.

Now is the time for action. As the UK has left the EU, a ban on importing fur is no longer restricted by prohibitive EU trade regulations, and implementing one is essential to ending cruelty to animals. The UK government stated in the Queen’s Speech that the UK will have and promote the highest standards of animal welfare. A ban on fur sales and imports would help achieve this and continue its legacy of protecting animals. The UK has an opportunity now to be the first country in Europe to ban all sales and imports of fur, setting an example for the rest of the world to follow.

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Please write to your MP and ask them to sign EDM 193 to show their support for ending the UK’s involvement in an industry that tortures and kills animals for their fur, putting pressure on the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs to act now. As your representative, your MP must respond to your letter.

Personalising your e-mail is best, but here’s a template you can use as is or amend as you wish.

Dear {contact_data~firstName} {contact_data~lastName},

My name is {user_data~First Name} {user_data~Last Name}. I am writing as your constituent – my postcode is {user_data~Postcode} – to urge you to support a #FurFreeBritain. You can join the call for a ban on UK sales and imports of fur items by signing EDM 193.

As you may know, this proposal has received significant cross-party support – MPs across the Commons attended a Westminster Hall debate in June 2018 and spoke in favour of a total UK ban on fur sales and imports. Over 30,000 members of the public have responded to DEFRA’s call for evidence in June 2021, and more than a million have signed petitions demanding such a ban. Countless investigations have exposed the shocking and barbaric cruelty endured by animals farmed for their fur throughout their miserable lives – all for frivolous fashion accessories. Every year, over 100 million animals endure this fate worldwide in the fur industry. The pandemic also exposed the risk fur farms pose to public health, with millions of minks killed in Europe as a result of outbreaks of COVID-19 on fur farms.

Permitting the importation and sale of fur flies in the face of the values held by the overwhelming majority of British people, 95% of whom won’t wear animal fur (according to an RSPCA poll) and don’t want to support an industry in which animals are drowned, electrocuted, or even skinned alive. Please represent me in Parliament by signing EDM 193 without delay to back a total ban on fur sales and imports.

Yours sincerely,

{user_data~First Name} {user_data~Last Name}
{user_data~Address 1}
{user_data~City}
{user_data~Postcode}

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