Fur is organic and biodegradable. By demonizing the use of fur, PETA has inadvertently become a promoter of the highly-pollutant synthetic materials used in faux fur, a material eventually destined for landfills.

Tuesday April 3, 2012 (West Hollywood, CA) — Not just your garden variety “here today gone tomorrow” disposable trend, fur is once again crowned as the MUST HAVE item for fall/winter 2012-13 for both women and men.   Hailed for its warmth, comfort, durability, and versatility; the praises of fur, and its many innovative applications, [...]

They boast about how they will “take down” an evil system that exploits animals. They glory in the “bravery” of those who go underground and steal, vandalize and disrupt in order to stop the abuses they decry. Then they turn around and file suit when laws deal with the very lawlessness they espouse are used against [...]

A group of animal rights activists sued the U.S. government Thursday to challenge the constitutionality of a rarely used law they say treats them like terrorists if they cause a loss in profits for businesses that use or sell animal products. 

Americans love animals. We keep more pets than any country in the world, and we treat them like family: celebrating their birthdays, including them in vacation plans, even hanging stockings for them at Christmas. 

NATIONAL ANIMAL INTEREST ALLIANCE PRESS RELEASE, JANUARY 10, 2001 Charities Report Says HSUS Misleads Donors (The following article was prepared by theNational Animal Interest Alliance and first appeared in the January 2001 issue of FCUSA’s newsletter “Fur Farm Letter”.) THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER Animal Peoplehas issued its latest report on the finances of charities involved in animal rights, [...]

JOINT MEDIA RELEASE BY THE INUIT TAPIRIIT KANATAMI AND THE FUR INSTITUTE OF CANADA, OCTOBER 20, 2010 Seal Ban Challenge Receives Clarification by EU Court OTTAWA: Members of a 16-plaintiff alliance welcomed a favourable ruling from the European General Court regarding their challenge to the European Union’s ban on seal products. “Inuit, who are central [...]

FUR COMMISSION USA COMMENTARY, MAY 25, 2005 By Simon Ward,  The world’s fur industry held its breath this spring as animal rights groups released new and truly shocking video purporting to show “normal” fur-production practices in China. Short-term damage, at least, has been limited in North America, in part because the media seem at last to [...]

FUR COMMISSION USA PRESS RELEASE, JANUARY 18, 2002 International Mink Show: 55 Years Young and Getting Better! Attendance by farmers and vendors continues to climb By Teresa Platt, Executive Director, FCUSA (April 1998 – May 2011) ATTENDANCE CONTINUED ITS UPWARD CLIMB at the 2002 International Mink Show where over 500 mink and fox farmers from a [...]

FUR COMMISSION USA PRESS RELEASE, OCTOBER 18, 2001 Update: See Terrorists Hit Iowa Farm Twice in Six Days. FCUSA press release, Oct. 24, 2001. Fur Farm Animals Released and Abandoned in Iowa ELLSWORTH, IOWA: In the early hours of Oct. 17, animal rights terrorists attacked a small fur farm in the sleepy community of Ellsworth, releasing [...]