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	Fur Free Action - http://www.furfreeaction.com Provides ways to take meaningful action against the fur trade and some easy ways to help prevent the killing of animals for their fur.
	HSUS: Fur and Trapping - http://www.hsus.org/furfree/ Articles and suggestions from their campaign to make trapping and the fur trade illegal. Includes Fur Free activist guide. From the Humane Society for the United States.
	Fur trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_trade Fur Trade defined by Wikipedia: Details the history of the fur trade including socio-economic implications, anthropology and more.
	Fur Free Alliance: inFURmation - http://www.infurmation.com/ Information center on the fur fashion trade including its animal welfare and conservation impacts on wild and domestic species.
	Fur Is Dead - http://www.furisdead.com/ Information about the cruelty involved in the Fur industry.

	Fur-Free Friday - http://www.furfreefriday.com/ Anti-fur facts, photos, the history of the event and links to related sites. From CAFT (Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade) and LCA (Last Chance For Animals). Not updated since 1999.
	Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade - http://www.caft.org.uk/ Includes factsheets and materials used in protesting the fur trade.
	Respect for Animals - http://www.respectforanimals.co.uk Campaigns against the international fur trade, both fur farming and trapping. UK.
	Time Line - A Brief History of the Fur Trade - http://www.whiteoak.org/learning/timeline.htm An interesting glimpse into the history of the fur trade in North America.
	Fur Information: A Look at the Fur Industry - http://fur.elehost.com/ Personal page about fur farming and fur trapping includes rebuttals for reasons people give for buying fur. Photos and links to other anti-fur sites.

	Observer: Fur is all the rage as sales rise 35pc - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/nov/17/animalwelfare.world Retailers believe fur's sudden popularity is partly fuelled by a new generation of consumers rebelling against the anti-fur movement and the political correctness of the Nineties.
	Models Anti-Fur - http://www.lifeofamodel.com/models_anti_fur.html Information and resources to promote and help models that are anti fur.
	CNN: McCartney backs anti-fur fashion - http://europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/10/29/design360.mccartney.fur/ The revival of fur on the catwalks for winter 2002 shows that animal rights activists are having difficulty converting the fashion industry. They have a strong advocate in British designer Stella McCartney: "Everything in [my] store and every single garment and accessories that you see is cruelty free in the sense no animal has died to make anything in here." Karl Lagerfeld: "It should be handled in the nicest way but as long as we eat meat and wear leather, I don't even think there is a subject to discuss."
	Telegraph: Pop singer brandishes skinned fox in protest against the fur trade - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1412881/Pop-singer-brandishes-skinned-fox-in-protest-against-the-fur-trade.html The singer Sophie Ellis Bextor and the photographer Mary McCartney, the daughter of the former Beatle, have donated their services to PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) for their campaign against the increasing popularity of fur.
	Telegraph: Gisele left exposed on catwalk by fur protest - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1413381/Gisele-left-exposed-on-catwalk-by-fur-protest.html Campaigners from PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, invaded the runway during the Victoria's Secrets show in New York targeting one of the most prominent models to wear fur since it began to creep back into acceptability in fashion circles.

Facts: Fur - http://www.idausa.org/facts/furfacts.html
The truth about the fur trade including facts about "natural fur" e.g. chemicals required, environmental devastation and what you can do to put an end to animal suffering

New York Times - The War Against the Fur Trade Backfires, Endangering a Way of Life - http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/04/international/americas/04CANA.html
Native Canadians discuss the antifur campaigns of IFAW and Greenpeace that began in the late 1960's, and how the "Hollywood rich people, bleeding hearts and self-righteous groups" have killed the Inuit way of life and replaced it with oil, gas and mining interests. Free registration required.

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