Fur Commission was set down by the coalition government. The mandate was to examine and discuss a controlled liquidation or sustainable development of fur industry in Norway. Forward / FRP government has also asked the Committee to recommend one of the options.
The committee submits its conclusion to Agriculture and Food Sylvi Listhaug (FRP) on Monday.
Sample composition has been criticized, and now reaping the criticism that it declined to offer preview of the movie “Fur” was shown on NRK Tuesday evening newspaper Nationen.
– Arrogant
– A selection that says no to insight? It appears to me that almost incomprehensible, says parliament and former Environment Minister Bård Vegar Solhjell said.
– It seems bordering on arrogant and makes it harder to have confidence in conclusion, says the Green Party Une Aina Bastholm .
She thinks the film is unique because for the first time in Norway gets documented violations of animal welfare outside the Authority to report on.
Committee chairman Anne Karin Hamre said on its side that was ethically questionable to allow a closed viewing a movie recorded with a hidden camera. She believes a closed view would have been in violation of openness, adding that members have seen many movies that animal rights activists have made.
Filmed surreptitiously
There are animal rights activist Frank Nervik as surreptitiously filmed fur farms over two years, under the guise of wanting to learn the profession. He says that he experienced an industry without respect for public demands, and that he was taught that it was enough to follow the rules “on paper”.
– Fur industry focus is on profitability and not on welfare. This has abnormally overweight blue fox, so heavy that bones become deformed. It has been more animals per cage, which in the mink has given more aggression and injuries, says Nervik itself.
After she had seen the film, reacted Agriculture and Food Sylvi Listhaug (FRP) strongly it she calls serious breaches of animal welfare regulations.
– This is unacceptable. The film also shows unacceptable attitudes and lack of respect for animals and regulations, said Listhaug said.
Want meeting
The minister says it is good that unacceptable circumstances disclosed, and the film emerges relationship as she about cards will take up both Norges Pelsdyralslag and FSA.
FSA reacts to the killing of animals takes place too fast, and highlights a number of depictions of unlawful conduct in the film, including related to feeding and fewer audits than regulations require.
Listhaug says setting of selection and consultation responses that follow, will form a good basis for a factual discussion about fur industry and its future.
Even before the documentary was shown on television Tuesday night, criticized fur industry film. Information Officer Kathy Wormdahl in Norwegian pelsdyralslag admitted, however, that the film shows unacceptable treatment of fur.
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