After receiving dozens of emails from concerned constituents, Chesterfield MP Toby Perkins has urged Ministers scrap their reported plans to continue imports of fur and foie gras into the UK.

Residents across Chesterfield and Staveley have urged Toby to support moves to ban such imports, particularly given that the homegrown production of fur and foie gras are both rightly banned across the country.

In their correspondence, constituents raised the issue that animals suffer terribly on intensive farms and in brutal metal traps so their pelts can be turned into some frivolous trim on clothing and accessories that no one needs. They added that, to produce most foie gras, geese and ducks are brutally force fed with feeding tubes to produce a ‘delicacy’ from their fattened livers.

Toby stated “Animal welfare is of huge importance to me, and I’ve been proud to champion this issue throughout my tenure as an MP. 

I have previously written to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs about this matter however his department he set out that “some skin and fur products which may never be legally imported”, it is clear that the government have stopped short of a blanket ban.

I have reassured concerned residents that, if the issue is put before the House of Commons, that I would support the call to ban both the importation of fur and of foie gras”.