MPS alarm alarm to "very serious danger" new epidemic of animal fur trade

Dozens of parliamentarians and peers have increased alerting a “very serious risk to public health” from real fur trade after viruses that have high risk of spreading in humans in Chinese fur fields.

According to prominent scientists, more than 40 politicians have warned the government that fur farm practices can arouse everything with the permission of new pathogens to emerge.

In particular, the prevalence of bird flu in hundreds of European fur fields pose similar risks to human health.

Fur farm animals suffer from painful injuries and infections and mental torture from the cage. (AFP through Getty Images)

In the United States, one person died of bird flu after mutating and spreading to the cow, prompting California to declare emergency.

At the time of Boris Johnson, when he was Prime Minister, conservatives abandoned plans to ban the import and sale of fur.

They also failed to publish 30,000 responses to the official call for the fur trade in the UK.

The labor force has also been stopped as a pre -election ban on fur.

In a letter to the Minister of the Environment, 42 MPs and peers call on the government to support the new fur ban, citing a new study that concludes that fur farms “are” epidemics or illness. Epidemic “and” dangerously “and” an obvious path [for the] The next epidemic to occur. “

The major part of the British fur comes from China

The authors of the letter, who claim to be “outsourcing,” said: “The fur trade does not just attack the animal welfare [but also] Recent scientific research shows that the industry is pose a very serious risk to public health.

“Prominent viruses, including the group of infectious diseases in the London College of London, have recently issued serious warnings that the species involved and the usual conditions in the fur fields make this very good action to create and spread disease factors. Be new, and concluded that agricultural fur increase[s] The possibility of the future epidemic. “

The study that Essence In September, about viruses in Chinese fur fields, 39 viruses identified as “high risk” for human expansion potential, including 13 potential risky novel viruses.

In 2023, the London College of Imperialist viruses demanded that “fur agriculture, especially Mink, would be eliminated in favor of epidemic.”

At the peak of the CoVID-19 epidemic in 2020, millions of meinks in Denmark, the second largest producer in the world of animals, were destroyed due to the contamination of Coronavirus.

Blue foxes are treated like infected objects on a farm in Belarus (AFP through Getty Images)

In general, the prevalence of COVID flu and birds in 540 European fur farms killed 20 million animals whose bodies were destroyed.

In June 2023, environmental minister Alex Sobel said at the time: “A labor government is taking the necessary steps to import fur to England. Will be no fur ”.

“The fur belongs to animals, not the hats of Baba,” a member of parliament, Ruth Jones, whose private member ban in June, said.

“Public sentiment against the terrible fur trade is very strong, I hope the government listens to it and viruses warn us to stop fur fields before the next epidemic.”

It is understood that the government will express its official stance on the bill when it is discussed, and the ministers are waiting for a report by the Animal Welfare Committee, commissioned by conservatives. “Fur.

The signatories of this letter include Baronens Redfen and Bob Blackman MP.

HMRC records show that approximately 40 million pounds of fur came from countries such as China, Finland, Spain, Greece and Poland in 2023.