• ‘We keep pets and eat livestock, why not this?’: China’s defiant fur farmers

    ‘We keep pets and eat livestock, why not this?’: China’s defiant fur farmers
    Business is declining amid growing awareness of animal abuse, but bans on fur farming in Europe could restore fortunes“Now it’s a bad time to get into the fur business,” says a farm worker in Hebei province, northern China. The worker, who has been farming foxes for more than 30 years, says they have stopped after operating at a loss for several years in a row.China is the world’s biggest producer of animal fur, but here in Suning county, its “capital of fur”,

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