The last mink fur farms in France will be shut after the animals’ suffering was made public.
The French authorities acted after an expose from animal rights group One Voice which we featured this month.
Footage showed scenes “from a horror film” which included mink with paralysed back legs and putrefying flesh.
Letters urging the farms be closed were sent from campaigners including Humane Society International/UK, which is working with The Mirror to change the law here.
The UK imported £44million of fur from France between 2012 and 2016. Britain banned fur farms in 2003, but not imports.
Claire Bass, of the Humane Society International/UK, said: “This is a great first step for France, but allows the suffering of mink for another five years.
"It also excludes Orylag rabbits farmed for their fur.”
She said as long as the UK allowed the sale of foreign fur “we are complicit in this cruelty.”
