House of Fraser is to ban the sale of fur products in the latest boost to the Mirror’s Fur Free Britain campaign.
Parent company Frasers Group announced yesterday it will tell all its suppliers it will no longer buy any items containing fur.
The firm, which also owns Sports Direct and fashion brand Jack Wills, joins Burberry, Chanel, Gucci, Prada, Net-a-Porter and Canada Goose in snubbing fur.
Claire Bass of Humane Society International, campaigning with the Mirror to stop sales on fur in the UK, said: “Frasers Group is showing it is in tune with the vast majority who believe animals shouldn’t suffer in the name of fashion. It brings us another big step closer to a Fur Free Britain.”
Last year a Mirror probe found stores with signs reading “No fur products stocked in House of Fraser” above racks of fur garments.
But Frasers Group chief exec Michael Murray said yesterday: “Frasers Group is committed to a future without fur.”
Annually, more than 100 million animals worldwide are bred and killed for their fur, living their short lives in miserable, painful confinement.
Millions more are trapped in the wild, left in agony for long periods before they are killed.
This dreadful suffering is endured simply to provide the fur trim on coats, gloves, hats, hoods, and other fashion accessories.
The UK closed the last fur farm in 2003 on animal cruelty grounds but since then pelts worth more than £800million have been imported from around the world.
The Daily Mirror and Humane Society International UK are calling on the Government to ban these imports to help put an end to this horrific trade.
Our campaign has the backing of celebs including Dame Judi Dench, Ricky Gervais, Leona Lewis and Chris Packham, as well as the former boss of the British Fur Trade Association Mike Moser.
You can play your part by adding your name to this petition hsi.org/furfreebritain and using #FurFreeBritain on social media to help urge the Government to make Britain the first fur free country in the world.
