Depression 2.0 upside: Fur goes out of season

Better times ahead. CC/Ron Dunnington

Better times ahead. CC/Ron Dunnington

It’s hard to say whether next year’s Massachusetts Trappers Association fur sale will be a bust, but things have already turned ugly for Renfro, deep in the heart of Texas.

Renfro is a pest control guy who eats his kills, and sells the pelts. Nothing goes to waste. makes shows him to be a real hunter, at least.

Renfro, 46, is the first cog in the many-layered, $15 billion global fur industry, one that is caught in the steel jaws of the global economic downturn.

via Luxury downturn hits U.S. beaver trappers | Reuters.

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