Visitors to the Albert Cuyp have received a mostly positive response to the municipality’s plans to curb the sale of live lobsters, crabs and fur from next year. Entrepreneurs, but also some expats react less enthusiastically.
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It sales ban for the sake of animal welfare should come into effect from 2022. From Monday there is the possibility to object. And that will mainly come from the side of entrepreneurs.
Amsterdam has 34 markets. In certain places (second-hand) fur and live crabs and lobsters are sold. Alderman Everhardt says that the ban will also be enforced.
“This is normal worldwide”
“You can expect this from Amsterdam. They are of course ‘animal friends’, in quotes, because there are things that are much more serious. Anyway, this has been happening since time immemorial. And in markets worldwide this is normal and animals sometimes get even worse treated,” says fishmonger Schilder, who sells live lobsters and crabs on the Albert Cuyp.
“A lot of animal suffering”
Market trader Hans de Leeuw sometimes sold furs in the past. He understands the tendency and understands that animal suffering plays a major role. But an entrepreneur is still an entrepreneur. “If I can sell a few fur coats tomorrow, I certainly won’t resist. Profits never killed anyone, but my thought is that there is a lot of animal suffering behind it,” he admits.
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