Nothing is wasted!Every day, we use animals in many ways: for food, clothing, companionship, medical and scientific research, entertainment, and transport. The Fur Trade accounts for perhaps one-quarter of one percent of the animals we use for food, clothing and other purposes each year. About twice as many unwanted pets are put down in humane shelters, ten times more animals are killed on Canadian highways. 

We have a responsibility to ensure the highest possible standards of care for the animals we use: this is why trapping is strictly regulated by provincial and territorial governments, and fur farms follow Codes of Recommended Practices developed by Agriculture Canada in cooperation with producers and the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies. Strict government controls ensure that NO endangered species are ever used.

Photography by Luc Farrell, for Photographie Animalière

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" Aboriginal hunting traditions emphasize total use of the animal.
One of the worst things you could do is waste any part of
 the wildlife you had taken. Those ancient traditions continue today."
- This land is our life, Department of Renewable Resources,
Government of the Northwest Territories


Wildlife authorities endorse the Canadian fur trade