It’s Not Fashionable to Torture Animals
Animals on fur farms suffer immensely throughout their entire lives in order to produce fur products. Around 100 million wild animals are farmed and killed globally each year in the fur trade, 95% of whom are bred and confined in cages Fur farmers use the cheapest and cruelest killing methods available, including suffocation, electrocution, gas, and poison.
More than half the fur in the U.S. comes from China, where millions of dogs and cats are bludgeoned, hanged, bled to death, and often skinned alive for their fur. Chinese fur is often deliberately mislabeled, so if you wear any fur, there’s no way of knowing for sure whose skin you’re in.
Animals who are trapped in the wild can suffer for days from blood loss, shock, dehydration, frostbite, gangrene, and attacks by predators. They may be caught in steel-jaw traps that slam down on their legs, often cutting to the bone; Conibear traps, which crush their necks with 90 pounds of pressure per square inch; or water-set traps, which leave beavers, muskrats, and other animals struggling for more than nine agonizing minutes before drowning.
During the annual Canadian seal slaughter, tens of thousands of baby harp seals are shot or repeatedly bludgeoned with clubs tipped with metal hooks. Also in Canada, hundreds of black bears are shot at point-blank range or caught in traps and left to suffer for days so that their skins can be used to make the ceremonial hats worn by Queen Elizabeth II’s Five Guards’ Regiments.
PETA
“Fur is stolen goods,” says PETA Director Elisa Allen. “All the biggest, most sought-after names in fashion, from Versace to Chanel, have dropped fur. Others must do the decent thing and follow suit or find itself left behind – because when it comes to fur, the tide has turned, and there’s no going back.”
The Independent
The following fashion houses/shops/brands still sell real fur and completely ignore the appalling pain and cruelty inflicted on millions of animals:
- Dior
- Louis Vuitton
- Fendi
- Max Mara
- Harrods
- Alberta Ferreti
- Carolina Herrera
- Roberto Cavalli
