CANADA VOX POP: IS IT ETHICAL TO WEAR FUR?
July 1st, 2006
BY MONICA DOBIE
INTRODUCTION
IN 1534, Jacques Cartier the founder of Canada, swapped knives for animal skins with natives off the shores of Quebec, and soon a burgeoning fur trade attracted 1000's of European settlers. Fur has since become unpopular, a luxury based on cruelty, some say. But are Canadians, whose country was built on the fur trade, among them?
Ann James, 61
Farmer's wife
Balderson, Ontario
"I wouldn't wear fur and I don't think that ethically it is correct unless people hunt the animal and wear it themselves. Rearing animals for fur is not ...
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