playwithJoycee said:
After I sw this one video on the internet about how the process of fur collecting really works, I could never dare buy anything made by just fur. I can't stop other people from wearing it.. it's just my preference that's all.
you must probably be talking about that peta video from fur farming in China, where they slaughter, beat and skin live foxes and roccons while they are still alive, that´s really an inexcusable way to treat any breathing creature, i personally emailed saga furs talking about that video and expresing my concerns when it comes to ways of how to produce fur, their responce was that in China there are no fur farming regulations at all, but in finland, where fur farming is one of the country´s main activity, there are rules about fur farming, the way you treat the animal when is alive depend on the final fur quality, if the animal lives an stressful live, its defences decreace and its hair quality will not be as ordered or soft as the one on carefully treated ones, (for example in chinchilla farms, the breader shout keep a radio all day long for the little animals to get use to noise, and there for not freak every time someone gets inside, they aren´t forced to reproduce, because one male can have 5 females at a time, two times a year, in a space that instead of dust have marble dust for them to bathe).
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a copy of the mail from Saga Furs:
Thank you for contacting Saga Furs.
I understand your concern and appreciate your awareness. In general, I believe it is a very good thing to maintain consumer awareness in all aspects of our consuming, i.e. food, living, apparel etc.
Regarding Saga Furs I can assure you the skins we represent come from farms with very high ethical standards to fur farming – and what you have seen in the video clip you mentioned in your mail is not the way that the fur farmers we represent take care of the final stage of the process. And we simply cannot imagine that anyone would be able to carry out such an evil action to an animal.
To answer your specific question: mink are killed by CO or CO2 in an air-thight box (they are taken from the cage and put directly in a box for this purpose – a few seconds later the animal is dead). Foxes are killed by electrocution and die instantaneously.
To round things up, confidence in a product/label is important and that is actually the essence of the SAGA branding. The SAGA brand represents a quality system, that starts on the farm while the animals are alive, and the quality system is also the pelting, sorting, grading process – all stages until the skins are sold at the auction under the SAGA brand and hence sold as garments also under the SAGA brand (label)/information hang tag.
On Finnish Fur Sales web site,
www.ffs.fi, you can find more detailed information regarding fur farming.
Best regards,
SAGA FURS