The Fur Free Downtown Dash is quickly approaching! It’s a fun, activist-oriented scavenger hunt type of event hosted in downtown Victoria, and will have a fur theme, or better said, anti-fur theme! You can find out a bit more about the event on our page: http://TheVictoriaVegan.com/fur RSVP info is there, or if you’re on Facebook, simply join our Event page there: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=276401265736282 We hope you can join us, and if this is a popular event, we’ll come up with more activist ‘sporting’ events! Below are some recently released statistic on fur in Canada, thanks to Lesley Fox from the Fur-Bearer Defenders for all this! 2010 Fur Stats Statistics Canada has recently updated their information for fur stats,2010. The number of ranch-raised furpelts increased from 2,279,810 peltsin 2009 to 2,601,335 pelts in 2010, up14.1%. The value of ranch-raised fur pelts increased 31.0% to $192.5millionin 2010 compared with 2009 The quantity of…