POPiS decided to end the fur industry

Informal POPiS Coalition voted yesterday, the ban on rearing animals for fur, providing for an 8-year period of extinction of the manufacture and a strategy of compensation for breeders and checks for workers. The fight of the bambinist communities to ban animal breeding on fur has been going on for over a decade. The first draft laws had already appeared in 2011, but no had previously received the support of a parliamentary majority. presently Poland is the largest fur maker in Europe and the second largest in the world. This will change quickly, however, and others will take over the market.

Although Poland's economical and financial situation is steadily deteriorating, the COPIS continues to carry out ideological projects primarily, eliminating the thriving industries. 1 of the actions is the bill on the decommissioning of the fur manufacture proposed by the Bambinists. 339 Members voted in favour yesterday, 78 opposed and 19 abstained. If the changes are approved by the legislature and the President, the law will come into force later this year, and fur farms will cease operations by 31 December 2033.

The ban was supported by 150 Members of the Civic Coalition, 100 Members of Law and Justice, 30 PSL Members, 31 Members of Poland 2050, 20 Members of the Left, 5 Members of the Total, 1 Republican and 2 Members of the non-attached. All voters of the Confederation and the Confederation of the Polish Crown were powerfully opposed.

Farmers of fur animals are informing that the ban will lead to the elimination of many jobs and large economical losses. any of them foretell a advanced compensation claim from the state, estimated at up to EUR 113 million. The government shall guarantee that it implements support and compensation mechanisms for the entrepreneurs and workers affected by this decision. The compensation money, as usual, is to come from debt loans that we and the next generations will pay.

Poland is 1 of the largest fur producers in Europe and the world. The registry of the Main Veterinary Inspectorate lists 318 farms of carnivorous fur animals, of which about 200 were active in 2024. The value of mink exports amounted to PLN 300 million last year. There is besides a large subsidiary sector around the industry, profiting from, among others, the sale of animal feed and the disposal of production waste. They will besides endure from the introduced legislation.

OUR COMMENTS: The introduction of a ban on fur farming in Poland will not origin them to cease to be bred at all. The marketplace will simply be taken over by current and fresh abroad farms, for example in China, Russia, Ukraine or India. However, these farms will no longer operate outside the jurisdiction of the Warsaw authorities and will not supply animals with the welfare they could have hoped for. That's how naive, idealistic politics end, sewn up by a child. Bambiism.

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