Supervisor Katy Tang just
announced legislation to ban the sale of fur apparel in San Francisco. The ban would not apply to secondhand and vintage stores, unless they're selling fur from endangered animals.
Please sign this petition urging the Board of Supervisors to pass this important legislation!The fur industry is riddled with animal cruelty and suffering. Every coat, bag, or shoe that uses fur comes at an extreme cost to the animal it belonged to before. Thanks to
Direct Action Everywhere and
Compassionate Bay, San Francisco is considering taking an historic step to limit animal cruelty.
According to
PETA, animals on fur farms are contained in tiny, cramped wire cages until they are skinned alive. To minimize damage to the fur, animals are anally and genitally electrocuted, a gruesome and painful process. Some animals are trapped in the wild using steel-jaw traps, where the animals are left suffering with injured limbs until they eventually die, sometimes days later.
If there's a cruelty-free way to obtain fur for clothing, we haven't found it.With more and more big-name fashion designers going fur-free, it's time we admit fur is no longer fashionable. And now, San Francisco has an opportunity to be a real leader in the cruelty-free movement.
Please sign this petition and let's demand that the Board of Supervisors take a stand against animal cruelty by banning fur sales in San Francisco.