Fur Ban for Mill Valley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmgPAGS0QAQ&t=27s

Fostering a community of consciousness to live in a humane world for our beautiful progressive City of Mill Valley. We can easily join other progressive countries, high-end fashion designers, cities and countries against the selling of fur.
Fur farming is banned in Germany, Austria, Croatia, Chez Republic the U.K. and Switzerland, these progressive countries know that fur is outdated in this 21st Century as cruel, barbaric and a detriment to our environment.
Raising wild animals for fur is extremely cruel, they are denied veterinary care, raised on barren wire cages, running in circles, deprived of sunlight, chew their limbs off, are artificially inseminated, denied their babies. Then anally electrocuted as a stun, which most of the time never works, necks are broken if still squirming, and or are skinned alive in front of others. Eighty-five percent of the fur industry's skins come from animals on factory farms.  The majority of fur comes from China from all fur bearing animals including dogs and cats, no animal protections whatsoever and they are all skinned alive.  
We are in a our 6th mass extinction, animals are entering on the list at an alarming rate. Leg-hold traps are classified as inhumane, as the animal struggles to free itself, it cuts to the bone or leg mutilating it's leg or paw. A mother will desperately try to return to their young and will attempt to chew off their trapped limps, suffer from shock, frostbite, exhaustion and a cruel death. These traps end up killing millions of raccoons, coyotes, wolves, bobcats, opossums, beavers, otters and other fur bearing animals, also including dogs.
The environmental toll to raise animals for fur is a large costs to our environment. Each mink skinned produces about 44 pound of feces in his/her lifetime. That adds up to 1M pounds of feces from U.S. Mink farms alone. A dangerous component of these waste is 1,000 tons of phosphorous, which wrecks havoc on lakes and streams. Fur is then treated in a toxic soup of ammonia, formaldehyde, hydrogen peroxide, and other chromates and bleaching agents that are used to preserve and dye fur. The energy costs required to raise fur products, for each kilogram of factory farmed mink, 110 kilograms of carbon dioxide is produced enough to drive a car from San Francisco to Denver. Including delivering feed to animals, raising feed, removing animal waste, using pesticides, vaccines, and antibiotics, etc.... it takes 20x more energy to produce than a faux fur garment. Contributing to air and water pollution from feces.

This is the 21st Century, there is no need to wear animals, there are so many creative faux- fur alternatives that are now available and are the latest fashion trend. The high-end fashion leaders are taking note, the recent ban of fur by GUCCI, Net-A-Porter, the largest high-end online retailer, Michael Kors, Burlington Coat Factory, BCBG, Intermix, Hugo Boss, Calvin Klein, and a host of others have all joined the fur ban, for the animals, environment and a fashion stance. As Gucci CEO stated, "Fur is just not modern anymore."
Mill Valley, CA is a progressive city and it's time to join the City of Berkeley, West Hollywood and soon to be San Francisco and many other cities joining against this cruel product of tortured animals. 

References: International Fur Trade Federation "Farmed Fur" 2013
Washington State Department of Ecology. U.S. Dept of Ecology "Whatcom County Mink farm fined for water pollution. Gregory H. Smith, "Energy Study of Real vs. Synthetic Furs, University of Michigan. 'Racing Extinction', a documentary showing the evidence of using animals for any industry as detrimental to the environment.