People are being told that the fur trade not only sees animals suffering in filthy farms but they are also the breeding ...

We were tromping out onto a wetland frozen nine inches deep. It felt like how the fur trade began, someplace long ago, far away. Bill Mackowski, in his 60th year of trapping, mostly around ...

The City Council voted 26-19 against a ban on new fur sales in the city. Ald. Raymond Lopez and animal rights activists ...

So did Hudson’s Bay, the Toronto retail company that owns Saks Fifth Avenue and started as a fur-trading business in 1670. Macy’s, Bloomingdale's and Neiman Marcus stopped selling new furs.

A representative from the American Fur Industry, a trade association, told The New York Times that by the late 1980s, retail sales reached a record $1.9 billion. In those days, business was ...

In the late 17th century, hundreds of Frenchmen trekked into the wilderness of North America to seek their fortune in the fur trade. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) They left the ...

More than a century after the Hudson's Bay Company was founded, another great Canadian fur-trading company was born. The North West Company took its trade to the Indians by establishing a network ...

Dozens of MPs and peers have raised the alarm over “a very serious risk to public health” from the trade in real fur after viruses with a high risk of spreading to humans were found on Chinese ...

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People are being told that the fur trade not only sees animals suffering in filthy farms but they are also the breeding grounds for deadly new viruses that can jump to humans Animals are kept in ...