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                        style="FONT-SIZE: 30px">The EU Must Ban Fur Farming, 
                        Just Like Member State 
                        Bulgaria</SPAN></SPAN></B></P></DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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                        size=2></FONT><BR><B>Bulgaria has officially banned fur 
                        farming</B>, in a huge win for animals! Back in 2022, 
                        the country's Minister of Environment and Water signed 
                        an order to prohibit breeding or importing a popular 
                        species of mink in Bulgaria.</P>
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                        <P style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 16px"><A 
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                        href="https://www.care2.com/go/z/e/A0XZ8/zzbo/DCXRB" 
                        rel=noopener target=_blank><B>Predictably, greedy 
                        companies protested loudly, claiming they should have 
                        the right to torture animals for the sake of selling 
                        clothing.</B></A> This month though, Bulgaria's 
                        Supreme Administrative Court upheld the country's ban on 
                        fur farming — <B>meaning profit-obsessed companies 
                        failed, and the animals won!</B><BR><BR>Fur farming is 
                        <B>incredibly distressing</B> to the captive animals 
                        involved. Mink are locked into tiny, dirty, feces-filled 
                        cages. In some cases, <B>living mink have been left 
                        alongside the rotting corpses of their fallen 
                        comrades.</B> Unsurprisingly, this results in 
                        infections, disease, pain, and horrible suffering. Some 
                        recordings have even captured disturbing video of the 
                        animals <B>self-maiming in distress.</B><BR><BR><B>Once 
                        they are old enough to have produced "enough" fur, they 
                        are sent to gas chambers. After they are dead, their 
                        furs are cut from their bodies</B> and sold to become 
                        clothing.<BR><BR>Luckily, because of the Bulgarian 
                        government, the country's last mink farm closed in 
                        January 2025. It was able to breed around 129,000 mink 
                        per year. Now, mink will be safe from this and other 
                        farms.<BR><BR><B>We must ensure that more member states 
                        in the EU protect mink from cruelty and death as well! 
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                        rel=noopener target=_blank>Sign the petition to urge the 
                        European Union to ban fur farming of mink and other 
                        species!</A><A 
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                        protect innocent captive animals in other countries, 
                        too. The entire EU must ban fur farming! <A 
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