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No one should “get a ton of compliments” when wearing a fur coat or a coat trimmed with fur, as a person quoted in your story did.

For the sake of fashion, animals can be electrocuted, drowned, killed with carbon monoxide or even skinned alive for a fur coat. There is no humane treatment whatsoever for fur-bearing animals and no federal law protects them from any abuse.

People should remember that when buying their next “fashion statement.”