Boris Johnson could ban the sale of animal fur in the UK

Some well-known designers, including Stella McCartney and Vivienne Westwood, have written to the British Prime Minister to ask him to ban the sale of animal fur.

The battle continues for ban the sale of fur in the UK.This time, there is a group of British stylists, led by, pleading the cause Stella McCartney And Vivienne Westwood, who launched the campaign #FurFreeBritain and wrote a letter addressed directly to the prime minister Boris Johnson.The aim is to convince the government to transform the United Kingdom into first country in the world to ban the sale of fur.

Initiatives against animal fur

It is not the first initiative that England has implemented to protect animals:already in 2000 it was decided to close all farms of fur animals.Furthermore, since 2018 the British fashion council he is committed to making the London Fashion Week totally fur-free.This new campaign, supported by Humane society international, therefore adds a piece to the path undertaken by the United Kingdom, promoting a conscious and definitive change in the fashion sector.

And if Boris Johnson accepted the appeal of English designers quickly, the country would become the first in the world to ban the sale of animal fur.Primacy that competes with the California:in October 2019 the US state approved a law banning the production and sale of fur throughout the state, starting from 2023.

“It is a shared opinion that fashion is evolving for make animal fur obsolete – we read in the letter sent to Downing Street – as more and more designers and retailers eliminate it from their collections, while the majority of British consumers reject it for ethical reasons”.

The words of Stella McCartney

Always a staunch opponent of a “barbaric, cruel and immoral” trade, to use the words contained in the letter, there is Stella McCartney, who considers the use of fur "useless and unforgivable".“I don't believe that animals should die for the love of fashion – states the designer -.Fur has no place in any compassionate society and today its use is unnecessary and unforgivable.Clearly, fur is immoral, cruel and barbaric.I greatly admire Humane Society International's #FurFreeBritain campaign and support its aim to ban the sale of fur in the UK."All that remains is to hope that common sense prevails.