Politician carries handbag made of raccoon fur
CDU politician Sarah Schweizer demands that more raccoons be shot and their fur processed into handbags. The criticism is fierce.
Raccoon fur as a handbag
CDU politician Sarah Schweizer demanded that more raccoons be shot and their fur processed into handbags. PETA campaign director Peter Höffken: «The stigmatization of the raccoon as an invasive species is unjust. Studies show that it does not threaten our native birds at all.»
Raccoon recreational hunting is useless
Increased culling is pointless: the animals simply reproduce even more as a result. Most recently, 6’000 raccoons per year were killed in Baden-Württemberg, an increase of 3’000% compared to 2005. Recreational hunting fails as a means of population control. More on the topic of species protection and animal rights.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier The Role and Criticism of Recreational Hunters we shed light on the training, power and self-image of recreational hunters. What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
