Special Interests
Animal Welfare
Struan led the campaign to have an EU-wide ban imposed on the import, export and sale of cat and dog fur products.
Working with Humane Society International, he uncovered a burgeoning trade with an estimated one million dogs and cats being cruelly slaughtered in China alone, to supply the EU with fur.
Slaughter of these animals is horrific, with cats strangled outside their cages as other cats look on and dogs noosed with metal wires and then slashed across the groin until they bleed to death as the wire noose cuts into their throat.
After eight years campaigning, Struan finally persuaded the European Commission to draw up a comprehensive law banning the import, export and trade in cat and dog fur products. The European Parliament unanimously approved this in a vote in Strasbourg in June 2007. The ban came into force in all 27 member states on 1st January 2009.
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