Fight the Fur Farming Industry
- by: Jenna Griffiths
- recipient: Producers, designers and sellers of fur and world leaders
Across the world millions of cats, dogs, rabbits, minks, foxes, racoon dogs, and chinchillas are bludgeoned, hanged, poisoned, bled to death, and often skinned alive for their fur, and then they're left there to die an unbearable death without there skin. Additionally fur is often deliberately mislabeled, so if you wear any fur, there's no way of knowing for sure whose skin you're in. Some think fur is acceptable because they think that as with most leather, animals are not killed specifically for their skin. This is not true, most animals killed for their fur are raised for fur production on fur farms and their bodies are burnt afterwards.
Animals on fur farms spend their entire lives confined to cramped, filthy wire cages. They become physically and mentally unwell, some dying from their injuries or resorting to canabalism. Fur farmers use the cheapest and cruelest killing methods available, including bludgeoning them with metal rods, slamming them on hard surfaces, suffocation, electrocution, gas, and poison.
When undercover investigators made their way onto fur farms across the world, they found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal's leg, the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut.
Before they are skinned alive, animals are pulled from their cages and thrown to the ground; workers bludgeon them with metal rods or slam them on hard surfaces, causing broken bones and convulsions but not always immediate death. Animals watch helplessly as workers make their way down the row
When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals' heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals' hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera.
Animlas are either born on farms for their fur or are trapped in the wild. 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
We the undersigned fully disagree wth all aspects of the production, use and sale of fur from any living creature. We disagree with the murder of animals for their fur, we disagree with the conditions they are kept in, and the methods that they are killed. We request the production, use, and sale of fur to be stopped worldwide and that the animals held in the farms are released into the wild or are able to live out their lives in a safe, natural, caring environment.
We hope that the below information and video will help you understand why these acts of cruelty must stop and do not belong in our world.
When undercover investigators made their way onto Chinese fur farms, they found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal's leg, the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut.
When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals' heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals' hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera.
Before they are skinned alive, animals are pulled from their cages and thrown to the ground; workers bludgeon them with metal rods or slam them on hard surfaces, causing broken bones and convulsions but not always immediate death. Animals watch helplessly as workers make their way down the row.
Undercover investigators from Swiss Animal Protection/EAST International toured fur farms in China's Hebei Province, and it quickly became clear why outsiders are banned from visiting. There are no regulations governing fur farms in China, farmers can house and slaughter animals however they see fit. The investigators found horrors beyond their worst imaginings and concluded, "Conditions on Chinese fur farms make a mockery of the most elementary animal welfare standards. In their lives and their unspeakable deaths, these animals have been denied even the simplest acts of kindness."
Similar Investigations in EU and canadian fur farms have also documented similar cruelty
On these farms, foxes, minks, rabbits, and other animals pace and shiver in outdoor wire cages, exposed to driving rain, freezing nights, and, at other times, scorching sun. Mother animals, who are driven crazy from rough handling and intense confinement and have nowhere to hide while giving birth, often kill their babies after delivering litters.
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.
Some fur is also often deliberatly mislabeled so designers and customers have no idea where it has come from. Additionally most fur is not a by product of the meat trade, the animal is used soley for thr purpose of its fur and its body discarded afterwards.
We ask you, whether you are a producer, seller, designer, or a political leader please see what you do for a living is doing to these poor creatures, ask yourselves, do they deserve to live and die like this? Or do they deserve to enjoy a happy life like we humans expect to do, why should they be given any less? Look at most of the animals on the list of those used for fur, many of these are companions to humans that we know feel pain, suffering and sadness and are very intelligent creatures, how can they be put through this suffering? It is disgusting, inhumane, and completly unnecessary.
Please watch the following video that confirms some of these horrors
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-clothing/fur.aspx
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