Etsy to Ban Fur Sales

Etsy to Ban Fur Sales

The online marketplace best known for handmade and small-batch goods will ban the sale of all animal fur, regardless of age or origin, on Aug. 11.

Online Retail Giant Bows to Activists by Banning Fur Sales. It's Hurting Conservation and American Trappers

On Thursday Etsy, the massive online marketplace for handmade goods and craft supplies, joined the list of groups pressured by animal-rights activists to adopt a sweeping fur ban. The new policy goes into effect on August 11. The fur ban, which echoes language in a similar petition advancing in Colorado, will disrupt thousands of global sellers and upend small businesses owned by American trappers. Etsy’s new policy, which was distributed to sel…