Fur: Import and Sale - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords am 2:49 pm ar 22 Ebrill 2024.

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Photo of Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle Green 2:49, 22 Ebrill 2024

My Lords, last week in the Grand Committee, the noble Lord and I were agreeing about the importance of biosecurity and the threat presented to human and animal health—indeed, One Health. During Covid 19, we saw huge numbers slaughtered on mink farms because of the risk of transmission. Does the Minister agree that the fur farms that keep animals in such dreadful conditions as my noble friend referred to present a threat to the security of all of us, in terms of the transmission of zoonoses? If we were to ban the imports, we would actually be making the world safer for all of us by helping to discourage those farms from continuing and presenting the biosecurity threat that they do.