Bowing to public pressure, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth will wear fake fur for the first time — so why do Americans still buy real fur?

The anti-fur lobby scored a significant victory Tuesday with news that Britain’s Queen Elizabeth will wear fake fur for the first time, according a new memoir of the monarch cited by the Daily Telegraph in the U.K. It’s not a total victory for organizations like the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, however. Queen Elizabeth II will still wear items of clothing made from real fur that are already in her wardrobe, including ceremonial robes.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, last month signed Assembly Bill 44 into law, which bans the sale and manufacturing of fur products in California. Retailers and manufacturers could be fined $1,000 for violations. “California is a leader when it comes to animal welfare and today that leadership includes banning the sale of fur,” Newsom said, announcing the legislation.

This is the first statewide fur ban in the U.S., but it follows the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles, which separately announced last year that they’re banning the sale of animal fur products. The anti-fur movement has also gone global: Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Norway, Luxembourg and Serbia, among others, have banned fur farming.

“Their staffs, many of them highly skilled craftsmen, will join the ranks of the unemployed, unlikely to find work at similar wage levels,” it added. “To be sure, it is the stuff of legacy, just not the legacy any other chief executive would want.” Fur farms dominate the trade, and production has more than doubled since the 1990s, to about 100 million skins last year, mostly mink and some fox,” it found. “Trappers typically add millions of wild beaver, coyote, raccoon, muskrat and other skins. That’s besides untold millions of cattle, lambs, rabbits, ostriches, crocodiles, alligators and caimans harvested for food as well as skins.”

In announcing its upcoming fur ban, Macy’s said last month that it has had regular conversations with the Humane Society and other groups, and noted that improvements in fabric technologies such as faux fur should make the transition easier, the Associated Press reported. New York City and state are also mulling similar bans on the manufacture and sale of fur.

FAKE THE fake double swop and no one will know .

100% polyester? What about climate change?

mrtgr You could have found a nicer photo, folks. QE rocks.

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