Fur Trade in Canada

For once, your newspaper has printed an article on the people who survive on the fur trade without the propaganda of animal extremism. Urban city dwellers have lost touch with nature. What they need to be educated about is that fur is one of our most renewable, recyclable, reusable and natural resources.

And the animals trapped for fur do not live to a ripe old age in the wild; they often die from disease or starvation or are eaten by other animals. The emotionalism of animal rights extremists may raise big bucks for their organizations, but all those petroleum-based synthetic fake furs won’t do a thing for our fragile environment sitting in landfills for eons to come.

DANIEL WACHTENHEIM

Los Angeles