“This kind of treatment of animals doesn’t belong to this day,' a spokesman said. 'Times have moved on and now it’s time to leave this kind of cruelty behind.'
This photo provided by Humany Society International shows a fox inside a cage at a fur farm in western Finland, in late October, 2024. GENEVA — A red fox frantically scratches the wires of its small cage. An Arctic fox meanders lazily with a bloody tail. Other furry creatures, some with teary eyes, stare blankly into a light on an activist’s video camera.
FIFUR, a Finnish fur-breeders group, blasted the “covert filming” of the farms, accusing the intruders of “breaching strict biosecurity requirements” on farms where operations are “strictly controlled by national laws and regulations” and where veterinarians monitor animal welfare. “These pictures and these intrusions ... it creates a false image of normal lab animal welfare and animal keeping in the farms,” said FIFUR spokesman Olli-Pekka Nissinen, adding that his group believed the initiative to ban fur farming will be rejected.
Oikeutta Eläimille spokesman Kristo Muurimaa says the operation involved entering the farms to observe and document the conditions in which the animals are kept and that the photos were taken in compliance with Finnish law.“Fur has been used by people for a long time, since the Stone Ages basically,” Muurimaa said. “However, a practice where animals are kept in very small barren cages is not that old. It is a product of modern times where animals are seen just as products.
In neighboring Switzerland, which is not an EU member, a three-month public consultation ended last month on a government proposal to ban the import and sale of furs drawn from the “mistreatment” of animals. The measure would allow authorities to seize such furs. Finland, the advocacy group said, is one of the last European countries where farming such animals for their fur remains legal — and finger-pointed a number of retail brands that use fox fur from Finland.
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