Victory: Etsy Bans Fur After Pressure From PETA!
After facing relentless pressure from PETA and its international entities, including messages from over 100,000 supporters, Etsy has committed to banning the sale of fur! The new policy takes effect August 11, 2026. This victory for animals proves that when compassionate people speak up, companies listen—and real change happens!
However, Temu still sells fur, wildlife skins, and angora stolen from animals. Please urge Temu to join hundreds of brands and retailers that have adopted a fur free policy.
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Etsy, an online global marketplace focused on artistic and handmade items, claims to be committed to having a positive social impact. However, it continues to allow sellers to post and sell items made of real fur, despite hearing from PETA that animals in the fur industry spend their entire lives confined to filthy cages before finally being beaten, electrocuted, gassed, or skinned alive.
Etsy prides itself on selling an array of fashionable and artistic items, but there’s nothing artistic or fashionable about killing animals. The company has a policy on animal-derived products in place prohibiting certain items, such as pieces made from the body parts of endangered species, ivory and bones from ivory-producing animals, and cat and dog parts or pelts. Banning fur would be as simple to implement as any of these other policies. Hundreds of other companies have already banned fur, and we’re urging Etsy to do the same.
