I still don't understand what is "unique" about the fur trade compared to animal agriculture or how someone who eats meat on a regular basis could logically object to fur.

Similar to fur, the majority of animal meat consumed in the US comes from factory farms. Similar to fur, most factory farms exist specifically to raise animals and kill them solely for meat. Pigs and raccoons are both shockingly smart and rabbits and chickens perhaps less so so it's not like there's some qualitative difference in animal intelligence.

If anything, fur and leather seem less problematic to me because they last longer. A fur coat or leather upper on a good pair of boots can last ten years. In that same time-frame a diet that includes daily meat will result in substantially more animal death.