The fur trade is a multi-million-dollar industry. It is estimated that over 100 million animals are killed in fur farms worldwide annually. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the state of fur factory farming worldwide, and an ethical critique of the main arguments propounded by the fur industry. Consideration is also given to an attempt to justify fur farming through the concept of Welfur." Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey argue that from any ethical perspective, fur factory farming fails basic moral tests.

Ethically examines the practice of fur farming. Written by two leading experts in animal ethics. A work of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, the premier centre of its kind in the world.

Autorentext

Andrew Linzey is Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and has been a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford for 28 years. Clair Linzey is Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and the Frances Power Cobbe Professor of Animal Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Brief Overview: Fur Factory Farming Worldwide.- 3. Legislation on Fur Factory Farming.- 4. The Putative Justifications.- 5. The Case against Welfur.- 6. Fur Farming and Public Health.- 7. The Ethical Case Against.- 8. Summary and Overall Conclusion.