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Unfortunately, fur is still in fashion and the continued demand keeps more animals at risk. The industry is not only matters to our mental desire but also affect our physical health. Animal skins are very valuable and perishable. My father used to make leather car seat cover. The way to keep the skin fresh and thick is to first soak it in sodium arsenate solution to kill the bacteria. And then put them in lime water and sodium sulfide solution cleans the hair and organs remnants. It needs to be put in sulphuric acid and sodium dichromate acid solution to make the thickness and volume expansion. Finally, runs the skins with a huge amount of hot water. There are following step like dying color and cut into slices. After those hazardous chemicals (chemicals that can be found in batteries) are applied, the skins already become goods instead of part of animals. Most fur industry factory disposes of those solutions with untreated condition direct to the underground. The water can seep into the soil, the underground water. This could lead to allergies booming and hormonal imbalance. These harmful chemicals and resulting diseases can seep up the food chain into the food consumed by human beings. And we humans are the highest level of this biology chain. Thinking about humans who consumes water and vegetables that were planted in the local soil, aren’t we going to be affected too? Lots of people get cancer with the problem of their daily life by water and food.

It is evident that the production and processing of fur results in pollutions and has adverse effects on the environment. The first solution to checking the level of pollution is to filter the water and then perform a bacterial treatment to eliminate algal booming in our water system. Because water is the

fastest way to affect our biology system. The concept of animal protection should be more integrated into the education of the next generation. Also, there needs to be an increase in the laws and regulations banning or regulating fur production. If the practice is made illegal then the chances of individuals buying fashion products made out fur go down. Finland is under pressure from the rest of the world to make all the fur farming activities in the country illegally since most of the other countries have done the same. However, China and Russia are slowly becoming the next big suppliers of fur as the fur industry continues to boom in those countries. In the end, it might be left to our common-sense wisdom to realize that fur farming and buying of clothes made out of the same promotes cruelty to animals and harms the environment. The education would shape people’s mind eventually and the purchase of fur and leather goods would eliminate from the beginning. When the buying stops, the killing can too.

Work cited

“The Environmental Costs and Health Risks of Fur.” Fur Free Alliance, www.furfreealliance.com/environment-and-health/.