did you know that wearing your fur coat
could actually be good for the
environment hi I’m Lisa sim for
watchmojo.com and today we’re gonna be
talking about how wearing fur can
actually be green what do you mean by
saying fur is green some of the activist
groups today are saying we don’t need
fur we have all these great synthetics
and we’re certainly not against
synthetics but most synthetics are made
from petrochemicals they are
non-renewable resources there’s
pollution problems and so on so you know
fur really has a role to play it’s been
around a long time it’s proven it has a
track record here we are you know 400
years after the commercial fur trade
started in Canada the way ologist tell
us that the beaver are as abundant as
they were when Europeans first came
that’s quite an environmental success
story what do you have to say to people
who believe that fur is unethical we
shouldn’t kill animal for frivolous
purposes and some activists say oh fur
coat is a frivolous purpose but we do
have to wear something we do wear
clothing we do wear winter clothing when
you think of her as being a natural
product such a long-lasting product that
we can remodel in and restyle it it can
be passed down or more in vintage you
know hits anything but frivolous and we
should remember the other side it’s not
at all frivolous for the people who live
on the land you know we have three
hunters and trappers and members of our
fur Council like the curry of James Bay
in northern Quebec and Ontario they eat
beaver and muskrat they hunt them for
food they don’t have cows up there when
they’ve eaten the meat should they throw
the fur away or does it make sense as a
respectful for us to use it so that’s
not frivolous the fur trade accounts for
a what percentage of animals that are
killed every year in North America you
have maybe 5 million mink produced a
year and Walter you have maybe 3 4
million wild animals
compare that to food Adam
we have 800 million almost a billion
cows a year for food we have three to
four billion chickens a year we have
pigs and sheep and goats turkeys all
these animal we’re talking about
billions we added together the fur trade
itself represents maybe a quarter of one
percent of the animals that are being
used in society but important is to
realize that they’re being used
responsibly if the animals welfare
taking a consideration do they suffer
the Canadian government and their trade
have you know invested over 20 million
dollars in the last years to have the
world’s leading trap research program
which means devising new traps and
testing them so that the animals die
quickly and humanely and that is led to
the development of the agreement on
international humane trapping standards
you start an initiative and a website
called fur is Green Comm can you tell us
about that there seems to be that people
are ready to hear another side of the
story and although the trade it’s so
hard as antal it’s really a craft a
handicraft game heritage industry and
that’s why we haven’t heard the other
side when you attack a big modern
industry they give it a some PR
department and you’ll hear the answer
the reason you haven’t heard the other
side of the first story before is
because who is the fur trade gets
perhaps people they’re not communicators
it’s trappers out in the bush it’s
farmers family farms everything around
us does come from the land does come
from the earth does come from people who
got their hands dirty
you know Lumberjacks are miners or
cattle men all these people that are
being attacked by these protest
campaigns are the people that feed us
and clothe us and there’s something
bizarre that we we’ve had the privilege
that the people on the land have done
such a good job of becoming productive
that most of us can live in the city and
have nice clean fingernails and talk
about stuff and call that working that
what do we do with that freedom that’s
amazing for the first time in human
history we turn on the people on the
land as if there was something wrong
with them and I think that’s something
we have to
it’s bizarre cultural arrogance I think
it’s time we turned that around just as
a question of social justice and also to
realize you can wear fur and enjoy it
could actually be good for the
environment hi I’m Lisa sim for
watchmojo.com and today we’re gonna be
talking about how wearing fur can
actually be green what do you mean by
saying fur is green some of the activist
groups today are saying we don’t need
fur we have all these great synthetics
and we’re certainly not against
synthetics but most synthetics are made
from petrochemicals they are
non-renewable resources there’s
pollution problems and so on so you know
fur really has a role to play it’s been
around a long time it’s proven it has a
track record here we are you know 400
years after the commercial fur trade
started in Canada the way ologist tell
us that the beaver are as abundant as
they were when Europeans first came
that’s quite an environmental success
story what do you have to say to people
who believe that fur is unethical we
shouldn’t kill animal for frivolous
purposes and some activists say oh fur
coat is a frivolous purpose but we do
have to wear something we do wear
clothing we do wear winter clothing when
you think of her as being a natural
product such a long-lasting product that
we can remodel in and restyle it it can
be passed down or more in vintage you
know hits anything but frivolous and we
should remember the other side it’s not
at all frivolous for the people who live
on the land you know we have three
hunters and trappers and members of our
fur Council like the curry of James Bay
in northern Quebec and Ontario they eat
beaver and muskrat they hunt them for
food they don’t have cows up there when
they’ve eaten the meat should they throw
the fur away or does it make sense as a
respectful for us to use it so that’s
not frivolous the fur trade accounts for
a what percentage of animals that are
killed every year in North America you
have maybe 5 million mink produced a
year and Walter you have maybe 3 4
million wild animals
compare that to food Adam
we have 800 million almost a billion
cows a year for food we have three to
four billion chickens a year we have
pigs and sheep and goats turkeys all
these animal we’re talking about
billions we added together the fur trade
itself represents maybe a quarter of one
percent of the animals that are being
used in society but important is to
realize that they’re being used
responsibly if the animals welfare
taking a consideration do they suffer
the Canadian government and their trade
have you know invested over 20 million
dollars in the last years to have the
world’s leading trap research program
which means devising new traps and
testing them so that the animals die
quickly and humanely and that is led to
the development of the agreement on
international humane trapping standards
you start an initiative and a website
called fur is Green Comm can you tell us
about that there seems to be that people
are ready to hear another side of the
story and although the trade it’s so
hard as antal it’s really a craft a
handicraft game heritage industry and
that’s why we haven’t heard the other
side when you attack a big modern
industry they give it a some PR
department and you’ll hear the answer
the reason you haven’t heard the other
side of the first story before is
because who is the fur trade gets
perhaps people they’re not communicators
it’s trappers out in the bush it’s
farmers family farms everything around
us does come from the land does come
from the earth does come from people who
got their hands dirty
you know Lumberjacks are miners or
cattle men all these people that are
being attacked by these protest
campaigns are the people that feed us
and clothe us and there’s something
bizarre that we we’ve had the privilege
that the people on the land have done
such a good job of becoming productive
that most of us can live in the city and
have nice clean fingernails and talk
about stuff and call that working that
what do we do with that freedom that’s
amazing for the first time in human
history we turn on the people on the
land as if there was something wrong
with them and I think that’s something
we have to
it’s bizarre cultural arrogance I think
it’s time we turned that around just as
a question of social justice and also to
realize you can wear fur and enjoy it
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