Protection Of Animals And Clothing Culture: What Is The Difference Between Fur Culture And Fur Culture?

To make a fur coat, you need a 3~4 fox or a 10~30 mink or 10 raccoon. The squirrel skin is usually used for making necklines and other decorations.

Fur or not, this is a problem.

From the debate on the battle of living bears in February, the controversy caused by the stars wearing fur and then the goose fat liver incident and the continuous death of the finless porpoise attracted numerous eyeballs. In 2012, it became an animal protection year.

But one obvious phenomenon is that neither the opposite side nor the support side seems to have changed the other side.

For example, the technical code for leather and fur market management was formally implemented in November 1st last year.

On the basis of norms, be bigger and stronger.

The report on the current situation and development trend of China fur industry published by the Ministry of Commerce in March this year, the first systematic industry survey report of China fur industry also shows that nearly 7 million employees in the fur industry and 20 million people's lives have been benefited. The social and economic benefits gained in China can not be ignored.

Fur processing power

In early twentieth Century, fur of wild animals

Popular in the west, because of the abundance of wildlife in China, with the rapid growth of international trade, wild animal fur has become one of the bulk commodities of China's exports, mainly in western developed countries.

But at that time, almost all wild animal fur came from the wild, and excessive demand caused serious damage to wildlife resources.

By 1980s, China's export of animal fur and clothing and clothing products still had about 40% to 45% directly from the wild.

At present, the production of animal fur and clothing and clothing products in China almost all come from artificial breeding resources.

According to the chamber of Commerce of China food, animal and Animal Import and export, after more than 50 years of development, China has become a big country for fur animals (Fox, raccoon, mink, Rex Rabbit) breeding and fur processing.

According to the latest survey by the chamber of Commerce, fur farming is now distributed in 14 provinces and municipalities in Shandong, Liaoning, Hebei and Heilongjiang.

Fur clothing processing enterprises are mainly distributed in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hebei, Shandong and other places, the output accounts for more than 80%, and there are more than ten fur trading markets (fur and their products distribution centers) in China.

At present, domestic animal husbandry mainly includes mink, fox, raccoon and Rex rabbit.

In 2011, the output of raw skins was 16 million mink skins, 6 million Fox Skins and 12 million raccoon skins.

By the end of 2010, there were 151 fur clothing manufacturers above Designated Size, with an output value of 17 billion 220 million yuan, an increase of about 50% over 2009.

The chamber of Commerce said, "the rise of fur industry has not only enriched China's industry chain, but also greatly promoted regional employment and improved the living standard of local people."

The report on the current situation and development trend of China fur industry, for example, says that Suning County, Hebei Province, is known as the "fur city of China". The fur industry has pferred 80 thousand surplus rural labor force, accounting for 37% of the total population of the local population. It has been known as "the first village of the Northeast mink village" in Pulandian. The village has 800 thousand mink, 800 large scale farmers, and the average mink income has been over 10000 yuan. Mink farming has become the leading industry in the whole village.

Large farmers also employ more than 1000 local and peripheral labor force each year to increase farmers' income by about 10000000 yuan.

But in recent years, animal protection organizations have also found that animal cruelty is prevalent in farms, slaughterhouses or all kinds of trading places.

Big policy environment is difficult to change

The report on the current situation and development trend of China fur industry believes that the production of fur animals is suitable for the phased characteristics of China's developing countries, and is consistent with China's actual national conditions. Therefore, a large policy environment will not change in a period of time.

There is also a lack of exclusivity in all regions. Fur breeding is widely used in existing areas.

As for the production, processing and sale of fur, the State Forestry Administration, as the competent government department, has always held the attitude of "rational development and utilization".

Promulgated by the State Forestry Administration in October 2009

"Animal breeding, utilization and management" clearly pointed out that the Chinese forestry department attached great importance to the guidance and management of breeding and utilization of fur animals. According to the protection policy of "strengthening resources protection, actively taming and breeding, and rationally developing and utilizing", the pformation of wild animal fur from the wild to artificial breeding of fur animals was realized.

The white paper, which is known by the industry as the "fur industry of China", pointed out that although human beings no longer rely on wild animal fur and cold cover, today, the inheritance and innovation of human clothing and clothing culture will continue to yearn for this element.

However, as the Protection Department of forestry resources, the State Forestry Administration also said, "protecting and caring for wild animals reflects human kindness and emotion, and is a sign of human civilization and progress.

The breeding and utilization industry of fur animals carries two demands of human civilization, which need to be coordinated and compatible with human intelligence.

According to our reporter, in the promotion of all aspects of society, in 2005, the Provisional Regulations of the State Forestry Administration on the technical management of fur wild animals (domestication, breeding and utilization) demanded that the fur animals be executed by safety, humanity and environmental protection.

In terms of animal welfare, the interim provision also requires that fur animals should have suitable living environment, necessary free space for movement, adequate food and drinking water. During pportation of fur animals, they should be protected from injury. The pport cage must meet the basic requirements of fur animals' life. Prohibition of noise and other adverse conditions impede the physical and mental health of fur animals, as well as various acts of cruelty to fur animals and the welfare of fur animals.

The technical code for leather and fur market management, which was formally implemented in November 1st last year, has also made detailed regulations on the welfare of live fur animals that are traded in the market.

For example, live animal dealers should minimize pportation time, ensure adequate and comfortable sleep and rest, and provide enough space for living animals to ensure that they are free or alone with their peers.

Controversy on "absolute protection"

However, in dealing with these problems of protection and utilization, tradition and modernity, there are always difficult choices in concrete operation.

According to the State Forestry Administration, the breeding and utilization of wild animals and plants is closely related to the spread of national traditions.

There are many ethnic traditions in China, which originated from wildlife breeding and utilization or relying on wildlife resources, such as traditional Chinese medicine, erhu, tambourine and other traditional carving techniques, traditional horns, etc., which involve thousands of species of wild animals and plants.

Once the wildlife resources involved in these national traditions are exhausted, the inheritance and development of the related national traditions will inevitably be affected.

In addition, more people and less land are a major problem in the development of rural economy in China.

Under the condition that rural land resources are very limited and must first ensure that the basic farmland is used for the production of grain crops, the development of wild animals and plants in mountain forests and other areas by using the ecological characteristics of wild animals and plants can not only effectively promote the growth of resources and fundamentally reduce the pressure of protection of wild resources, but also alleviate the contradiction between serious shortage of raw materials and wildlife, so as to maintain the sustainable development of related industries and industries, and provide a new way for the development of rural economy and the employment of surplus labor force.

However, animal protection people also have their own views.

The animal protection team "action Asia" explains in its brochure: the rejection of bloody fur is to show cruelty to animal cruelty and slaughter behind fur, and to be packaged into gorgeous and noble goods. This is also a process of arousing people to ponder and reflect on moving objects, and to care for species outside human beings.

Zhang Shijun, a member of the drafting group and an associate professor of Law School of Shandong University, told reporters that he hoped the legislature would face up to the appeal of the society and introduce the anti cruelty animal law as soon as possible.

However, our reporter has noticed that with the rise of the "absolute protectionism" trend in recent years, some protection circles also reminded that "absolute protection is dangerous".

"The starting point of some people is good, but the effects of their actions are not entirely conducive to wild species, nor are they fully conducive to those who depend on wild species for their livelihood."

Eugene Lapointe, Secretary General of the international trade convention on natural resources conservation and the endangered species of Wild Fauna and flora, believes that the use of consumption is usually the only way to protect diversity.

If there is no scientific evidence that past use is unsustainable, there is no reason to prevent the use of resources in a traditional way.