Why are people willing to have a living creature like you and me brutally killed for it’s fur? Why is this even legal? Just because it’s not illegal to kill animals for their fur does it make it right?
Animals on fur farms live out their short painful lives in dark, windowless, cold sheds, surrounded by the bodies of other dead animals hanging off hooks. They are not fed or given water. The tiny metal cages used to transport the animals to the slaughter houses are thrown onto and off trucks, breaking the limbs of the innocent animals inside and injuring them badly. In order to kill the animals without damaging their fur, animals slaughtered on fur farms are killed by extremely sickening methods such as electrocution, drowning, beating and trapping. Animals are hung by wire nooses, skinned alive, have their necks snapped, beaten and then left to bleed to death, gassed, starved to death or slaughtered in some other barbaric way. These grueling methods aren’t always effective resulting in the animals being alive while skinned.
Should any living creature endure that kind of pain and suffering? Put yourself in their position…you can’t, because the ways in these animals suffer is unimaginable. Why? For a fur coat.
Millions upon millions of innocent animals are bred or captured and taken to live in these horrifying conditions just so you can walk around in their skin. IT’S NOT FASHIONABLE!
Every minute, in China alone, four cats or dogs are barbarically slaughtered, uselessly for the fashion industry. Most of these cats and dogs are stolen family pets. One cat fur alone, requires the killing of 24 adult cats, meanwhile 12 – 15 dogs are killed for dog fur coat.
Years of campaigning against this bloody trade are making a difference. The US Dog and Cat protection Act in the year 2000 requires all products to be DNA tested. Violators face 6 month imprisonments and a US $10,000 fine. In February of 2005, the Weekly International Fur News says – ‘EU member states suggest the fur industry is becoming less viable. The introduction of bans on all fur farming in Britain and Austria and a ban on fox fur farming in the Netherlands.’
So think about it next time you walk into that shop to buy the remains of a poor animal that had to suffer incredibly for your horrendous taste in so called fashion.
Fur should be banned from all markets and fashion designing houses.
