Just like leather fur is the skin of an animal. Most of the fur you buy today comes from China's fur farms. The most common animal killed is the raccoon dog.

Wild Animals are trapped for fur as well.

If fur farmers like their pelts they may then bred the animals for next season. Often times the animals are kept in tiny cages and they circle madly as they are wild animals. Many develop sores, diseases and some have chewed their legs to escape from the trap.

Pet dogs are occasionally accidentally trapped. Only then is this when people realize how terrible traps are. Traps can cause broken bones, an animal to bite its own limb off, death if the trapper doesn't regularly check traps (they could freeze to death, starve or die from dehydration on hot days).

Here's an inside look at a mink farmer, not on a fur farm but to show an idea of the methods of killing.

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It's very common for animals to be gassed alive or anally electrocuted as this will not ruin their fur coat.

If the animal is not dead after gassing they try to collapse the lungs by stepping on the animal till they bleed out OR they break their neck.

After the animal is dead... They skin them.

In some cases the animal is skinned alive (they can live up to 10 min after being skinned)  this either happens because they were not killed through gassing and the farmer didn't notice or because the fur farm routinely skins them alive as it takes less time.

Environmentally fur farmers and trappers are disrupting the animals ecosystem. That animal is there to control the population, take out the old and weak so natural selection can occur. Instead hunters come to the rescue claiming they control the population.

It's a good thing there is alternatives:

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