{"id":161,"date":"2019-01-08T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T20:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/?p=161"},"modified":"2019-01-08T16:18:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T20:18:19","slug":"international-fur-bans-continue-serbia-ends-chinchilla-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/2019\/01\/08\/international-fur-bans-continue-serbia-ends-chinchilla-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"International Fur Bans Continue: Serbia Ends Chinchilla Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Michelle C. Pardo<\/p>\n

Serbia joins the ranks of European countries that have enacted bans on fur farming.\u00a0 Serbia’s\u00a0Animal Welfare Act legislation passed in 2009, with a 10 year phase\u00a0out\u00a0period on farming.\u00a0 The Act makes it illegal to keep, reproduce, import, export and kill animals only for the production of fur.\u00a0 Efforts to delay or reverse the ban proved to be unsuccessful and the ban went into effect on the first of the year.\u00a0 Serbia’s fur farming centered on\u00a0raising chinchillas, which are native to Northern Chile and known to have extraordinarily dense and soft fur.\u00a0 While both the long-tailed and short-tailed\u00a0chinchilla are listed as “endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List, chinchillas are still commercially bred.\u00a0 Serbia joins a number of countries that have banned fur farming or sales, including Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom.\u00a0 More countries have bans on their parliamentary agendas.\u00a0 Animal and environmental activists have long advocated for bans on fur farming due to animal welfare and environmental “sustainability” issues.<\/p>\n

However a recent\u00a0study commissioned by the\u00a0International Fur Federation and\u00a0Fur Europe found that natural fur biodegrades rapidly even in landfill conditions without oxygen as opposed to fake fur which did not biodegrade at all.\u00a0 The study results, announced last summer,\u00a0note that synthetic fashion materials contribute to plastic pollution and directly challenge claims made by environmental activists who claim that fur production is an energy consumptive process.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.wearefur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Desintegration_Factsheet.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Fur bans are not only\u00a0trending in Europe.\u00a0 In 2018 the Los Angeles City Council voted to ban the sale of fur clothing and directed the City Attorney’s office to draft an ordinance outlining the ban.\u00a0 The LA City Council will have to approve the ordinance and have it signed by the mayor before it becomes law.\u00a0 The LA ban will likely have exemptions for fur trapped by California Fish and Game license holders and for fur worn for religious purposes.\u00a0 Some in the fashion industry have debated whether fur bans are only the first step in an activist agenda to ban the sale of leather and wool.\u00a0 Sustainability has become the “buzz word” in the fashion industry as more companies feel pressures to source their goods from\u00a0raw materials that generate environmental, social and economic benefits while not using too many resources or causing pollution.<\/p>\n

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by Michelle C. Pardo Serbia joins the ranks of European countries that have enacted bans on fur farming.\u00a0 Serbia’s\u00a0Animal Welfare Act legislation passed in 2009, with a 10 year phase\u00a0out\u00a0period on farming.\u00a0 The Act makes it illegal to keep, reproduce, import, export and kill animals only for the production of fur.\u00a0 Efforts to delay or … <\/p>\n

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