Every year, the day after Thanksgiving a bunch of well meaning, but misguided, animal rights protestor industry advocates trying to make you feel guilty about wearing fur or eating a turkey dinner. Let me give you a few tips to show you why you should feel proud to wear fur.

1. Fur is a renewable resource.

Trapping is a highly regulated activity in the U.S. and Canada. None of the species being legally trapped for fur are in danger of extinction. Under proper management, fur bearing species are an eternal resource. (In fact, some states like Louisiana have to institute bounty programs to encourage animals causing property damage to be trapped.

2.Trapping is environmentally friendly.

Contrary to many so called environmentalists, trappers can make money off the environment without destroying the underlying habitat. Not even loggers can say that.

3. Trapping is almost a 1 billion dollar industry in N. America.

Don't let anti's tell you that Europe doesn't allow trapping. Holland for example traps tens of thousands of muskrats each year, except they just throw the pelt away. In America we don't see the muskrat as a pest. We see it as a valuable resource, which makes a fine fur too. Unlike European countries that lack wide open spaces, the US still has land that people can use for a variety of recreational purposes. For more information on the costs of animal damage and its control visit Animal Use

4. The Foothold isn't cruel.

For more information debunking the animal rights protest industry, visit Politics of Animal Damage Control.php

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