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Links to organizations focusing on defending animals killed for
their fur.
www.animalinks.net/links/fur.html
http://www.antifursociety.org/
Fur animals in China suffer one of the most cruel and savage
practices ever heard against defenseless beings. The hideous cruelty
is hidden from consumers who may not know that each fur article
comes with an unimaginable amount of agony. All this in the name of
fashion.
The shocking footage from a recent investigation into the Chinese
dog and cat fur industry, in which millions of dogs and cats are
bludgeoned, hanged, bled to death, and strangled with wire nooses so
that their fur can be turned into trim and trinkets. Their fur is
often mislabelled as that of other animals and exported into the
United States, the European Union, and other countries, where it may
be sold to unsuspecting customers.
Killed So As Not To Damage Their Pelt
Fur-bearing animals are killed by gassing, neck breaking, anal
electrocution, clubbing, trapping and injection with poisons so as
not to damage their pelt, These fur animals live horrendous
existences when they are "ranch-raised" on a "fur farm", where they
spend their entire lives in tiny, filthy cages and suffer
tremendously until they meet with their brutal deaths. The U.S.
produces about 10% of the cage-raised fur in the world; 60 to 75% of
the fur in coats sold in the U.S. comes from cage-raised animals,
and 90% of cage-raised foxes are used in fur-trim. (HSUS 2004)
Since
1997, The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has
investigated and documented the international trade in dog and cat
fur and skins. This undercover investigation has spanned the globe
from source countries in China, the Philippines, and Thailand to
retailers and wholesalers in the United States, Russia, and the
European Union.
Two
Million Dogs And Cats Slaughtered
Over
two million dogs and cats are slaughtered each year for their furs
and skins, mostly in China and other Asian countries. Investigators
documented 50,000 to 100,000 cat pelts stockpiled at animal
by-product factories in China. At least ten dogs are slaughtered to
make a single coat – more if puppies are used. Up to 24 cats are
slaughtered to make one cat fur coat. Dog and cat fur is used in
trims, linings, hats, decorative figurines, and folk remedies. Skins
are used in dog chew toys and shoe leather.
The
slaughter of these animals is violent and pitiless. Cats are
strangled inside their cages as other cats look on. Dogs are noosed
about the neck by metal wires, and then slashed across the groin.
The wire noose cuts into their throats as they struggle in pain
before finally losing consciousness. In Harbin China, HSUS
investigators documented a German shepherd still blinking and
conscious as he was being skinned. At a dog farm several hours north
of Harbin, investigators documented dead dogs hanging from hooks as
others, still alive, awaited their fate outside the same cold,
dismal room.
Dog and cat fur is often falsely labelled to obscure the true source
of the fur. Dog fur products have been sold as gae-wolf, goupee,
Asian wolf, China wolf, Mongolian dog fur, Sobaki, Pommern wolf,
dogues de Chine, Corsac fox, Asiatic racoon, and loup d’Asie. Cat
fur has been sold as rabbit, maopee, goyangi, katzenfelle, gatto
cinesi, natuerliches mittel, wild cat, and chat de Chine. In fact,
fur manufacturers in China told HSUS investigators they could sew
any label they asked for onto dog and cat fur products to make them
more marketable.
Contact the AntiFurSociety at:
Antifursociety@msn.com
International Organization for Animal Protection
(OIPA)
If you cannot imagine how people can kill innocents for their fur,
then you can now watch on our website!
http://www.animal-protection.net/furtrade/movie.htm
VERY IMPORTANT:
We ask people with unstable nervous systems not to watch this, and
don't allow children to watch this either!
Results of the Petition to
President of the People's Republic of China
Good News
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On June
19th 2007 the European Parliament voted unanimously
to ban the
import and export of Cat and Dog fur from China
into the European
Union by December 31st, 2008
http://www.oipa.org/fur/campaign/furcatdog-mep.html
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