Anti-Fur Society

http://www.npr.org/2013/12/19/255319621/russian-market-fuels-comeback-of-north-american-fur-market == The fur sales that are the strongest now are not necessarily your grandmother's old mink coat," says Herscovici. "Rather, it's the bunny cuffs and coyote fur ruffs that helped grow the retail fur industry to [$15.5 billion] last year — 45 percent more than sales 10 years ago." Ten years ago, it wasn't very lucrative at the other end of the business, either, especially for trappers. Maine trapper John Sewell says a coyote fur that would net $7 at auction a decade ago would sell for $50 today. "That's what they want for the trim trade," he says

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