But the current revival is a story of the fur trade responding to its critics and often outmaneuvering them, combined with increased demand from the newly wealthy in China, South Korea ...

People are being told that the fur trade not only sees animals suffering in filthy farms but they are also the breeding grounds for deadly new viruses that can jump to humans ...

Dozens of MPs and peers have raised the alarm over “a very serious risk to public health” from the trade in real fur after viruses with a high risk of spreading to humans were found on Chinese fur ...