Yes, the fur industry keeps us safe from those vicious minks who are just waiting to attack us if given a chance:

The Chanel supremo said it was “childish” to even discuss the issue of wearing fur in a world where eating meat was normal.
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Hunters in the north “make a living having learnt nothing else than hunting”, he said, “killing those beasts who would kill us if they could.”

Of course, as the PETA spokesman points out in the article, most fur comes from fur farms, not hunters. Though, I didn’t realize that fur is being imported from China. Yet another industry we’ve lost to China?