Norway Set To Ban Fur Farms By 2025

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A bill submitted to Parliament would make it illegal to own animals after 2025 in order to kill them "for the sale or any other use of their fur", PHY ORG reports.

The proposed ban is the result of an agreement that was reached in January 2018 when the right - wing government expanded to include the small Liberal Party that insisted on the action.

While the fur sector has largely come to terms with the idea of a gradual dismantling of their industry, it was critical of the compensation the government was offering farmers, calling it a "historic betrayal".

"We're being offered a few kroner, which is far from compensating for the planned dismantling of farms," Guri Wormdahl, a spokeswoman for the fur farmers' organisation Norges Pelsdyralslag, told AFP.

"The way it has been designed, it will lead farmers straight to bankruptcy," she said.

The government has estimated it will have to pay farmers around 500 million kroner (52 million euros, $54 million) in compensation for either the dismantling or reconversion of their businesses.

According to Norges Pelsdyralslag, the country's fur farming industry employs around 500 people and has annual sales of 300 million kroner.

Norway accounts for about one percent of global production of mink fur and about two to three percent of production of fox fur.

Germany closed its last fur farm this week, following similar bans around Europe.




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