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Mick Barry TD questions Agriculture Minister about upcoming fur farming legislation

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PETITION UPDATE

Irish Council Against Blood Sports ICABSIreland, Ireland

https://www.change.org/p/ban-fur-farming-in-ireland/u/27393155?cs_tk=AiK39gzH5vAXAP8FI18AAXicyyvNyQEABF8BvHTQ1tEdghkRs-ltTsquPMo%3D&utm_campaign=c102a16d7de74500986e50879657e2e1&utm_content=initial_v0_4_0&utm_medium=email&utm_source=petition_update&utm_term=csJUL 27, 2020 — 

Thanks to Mick Barry TD (Cork North Central, Solidarity) for asking Agriculture Minister Dara Calleary about “the progress on legislation regarding the prohibition of fur farming”.

Responding, Minister Calleary said that the Department of Agriculture “is in the process of preparing a Bill to provide for the phased introduction of a ban on fur farming which will include a prohibition on mink farming”.

ACTION ALERT

Contact Minister Calleary and tell him that you want fur farms shut down now (instead of being phased out). Remind him that an 80 per cent majority want fur farming banned.

Email: dara.calleary@oireachtas.ie
Tel: (096) 776 13 OR (01) 618 3331
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/daracalleary
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/daracalleary

Dail Question, 21 July 2020

Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity): To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on prohibiting fur farming; the progress on legislation regarding the prohibition of fur farming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17062/20]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail): My Department is in the process of preparing a Bill to provide for the phased introduction of a ban on fur farming which will include a prohibition on mink farming.

Along with animal welfare considerations, social and economic aspects in relation to the industry need to be taken into account. The Bill will make it illegal for any new fur farms to be established and will put in place phase-out arrangements for the small number of current operators. This will allow for an orderly wind down of the sector and allow time for employees to find alternative opportunities.

The Programme for Government 2020 contains a clear commitment regarding the prohibition of fur farming and Department officials are currently preparing the appropriate draft heads of a Bill to facilitate the achievement of this objective with a view to seeking Government authority at an early date.

https://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2020-07-21a.1401

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Solidarity bring bill to ban fur farming

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Irish Council Against Blood Sports ICABS

Ireland, Ireland

 

JUL 19, 2018 — “https://www.change.org/p/1753085/u/23032726?utm_medium=email&utm_source=petition_update&utm_campaign=382004&sfmc_tk=r%2ff4W2iW7iRcZhCc4lpkbASvtXo40j1uSOXag2FRLd3grPSaJZ5UkLMB8X1vy9O3&j=382004&sfmc_sub=140542604&l=32_HTML&u=64667104&mid=7259882&jb=12

Those animals shouldn’t have to endure one more day of the hell on earth that is fur farming” – read John Fitzgerald’s Letter to the Editor in today’s Irish Examiner…

Solidarity bring bill to ban fur farming
Irish Examiner, 19 July 2018

Fair play to the Solidarity party for preparing a bill to ban the cruel practice of fur farming in Ireland. The bill will be introduced in the Dáil after the summer recess.

More than 200,000 mink are killed on Irish fur farms every year and their treatment cannot reasonably be likened to that of conventional farm livestock. These are wild animals, inherently unsuited to captivity, let alone to being confined in small spaces for their short lives. The cages that hold them are each about the size of two shoe boxes.

Though semi-aquatic by nature they are denied a watery environment on the farms. Their captors feed them on bits of liquidised fish organs, which they have to “earn” by licking at these through the tops of their cages.

Mink are solitary creatures in the wild whereas on the farms they are forced to mingle and co-exist with other mink. They react against these cruel and deviant conditions by indulging in repeated self-harm and cannibalism, while also suffering from extreme levels of stress as they struggle in vain to escape.

At the age of six months, they are taken from their cages for slaughter. Up to 40 mink at a time are squeezed into the killing box, and gassed to death by carbon monoxide. The skin is then ripped from their bodies. Some mink are still alive and unconscious when removed from the box and have to be “dispatched” before skinning. This is definitely not a humane farming practice. It came close to being banned in 2010 but the legislation didn’t go through owing to the collapse of the Fianna Fáil/Green Party coalition.

We earnestly appeal to the Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, to respond to the Solidarity bill by putting an immediate end to this practice.

Those animals shouldn’t have to endure one more day of the hell on earth that is fur farming.

John Fitzgerald
(Campaign for the Abolition of Cruel Sports)
Callan, Co Kilkenny

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ICABS ACTION ALERT

Please contact your TDs and urge them to support the upcoming Solidarity bill to ban fur farming. Contact details for TDs can be found at https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/tds/?term=/ie/oireachtas/house/dail/32 Also contact the political parties to urge them to back the bill – find contact details at http://www.banbloodsports.com/parties.htm

Join us in urging Minister Michael Creed and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to put in place a long overdue ban on fur farming.

Email “Ban fur farming NOW” to Leo.Varadkar@oir.ie, michael.creed@oir.ie, taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie, AnimalHealthAndWelfareAct@agriculture.gov.ie

Tel: +353 (0)1 6194000 (Leo Varadkar)
Tel: 01-607 2000 or LoCall 1890-200510 (Michael Creed)
Tweet: @campaignforleo @creedcnw Ban fur farming NOW
Comment on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/campaignforleo/
https://www.facebook.com/michaelcreedtd

VIDEOS

ICABS footage – Victims of Ireland’s cruel far farming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=artr7qwCLLk&index=2&list=PL43C1F00F38986C68

NARA footage showing caged mink in a fur farm in Donegal
https://www.facebook.com/NARAcampaignsIRELAND/videos/1694193503937318/

Mink pulled from cages and thrown into gassing box
https://youtu.be/m52k4aPXahU?t=3m6s