Ethical Critique of Fur Factory Farming

Andrew Linzey is Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and has been a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford for 28 years. Clair Linzey is Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and the Frances Power Cobbe Professor of Animal Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Brief Overview: Fur Factory Farming Worldwide.- 3. Legislation on Fur Factory Farming.- 4. The Putative Justifications.- 5. The Case against “Welfur”.- 6. Fur Farming and Public Health.- 7. The Ethical Case Against.- 8. Summary and Overall Conclusion.