Fur comes from the extremely cruel fur industry. We have absolutely no right to remove the skins of animals and wear them ourselves.
"There's nothing fashionable about a dead animal that has been cruelly killed just because some people think it looks cool to wear."
-- Stella McCartney
(Fashion designer and daughter of Paul McCartney.)
FUR FARMS
The majority of animals used for fur live on fur farms. The most farmed fur-bearing animal is the mink. Other animals used for fur include rabbits, foxes, chinchillas, raccoons, beavers and lynxes. Most fur farms can be found in Europe. The animals are kept in very small cages which causes a lot of emotional and physical stress. They are fed meat by-products considered unfit for human consumption. Water is provided by a nipple system which often freezes in the winter.
FUR TRAPS
Traps are also used to catch animals and kill them for their fur coats. When animals are caught in a trap, it can take days before the trapper removes them. About 1 out of 4 trapped animals escapes by chewing off his or her own leg or paw. The escaped animals will die from blood loss, fever or gangrene, or are killed by a predator.
Traps don't only trap animals suitable for fur. Up to 50% of trapped animals are discarded as "trash animals". This includes many domestic cats and dogs.
KILLING METHODS
The killing methods on fur farms are gruesome. They use different methods to kill the animals without damaging their fur.
Small animals may be put into boxes and poisoned with the hot engine exhaust from a truck. Larger animals have clamps applied to their mouths and rods inserted into their anuses and are electrocuted.
Other common methods used on fur farms is gassing, neck-snapping and decompression chambers.
Trappers usually strangle or beat the animals they catch in their traps to death.
Not all these methods always effectively kill the animals and some animals "wake-up" while being skinned.
Pelts
During 'fur' production a significant number of animals, whether raised in cages or trapped in the wild, are skinned alive. Approximately 35 animals are killed and skinned to make a single coat and the 'fur' industry currently kills around 30 million animals a year. The use of fur is now widely rejected due to public awareness of the suffering and deaths it caused. However, we need to apply those same arguments for the rejection of any item of clothing made from animal skins, since every case involves someone else's death. Curiously, the main argument used by those who defend such practices is that the animals raised for fur and leather production are equal to those raised for meat production, where conditions for the animals are the same or worse. For us this only demonstrates the need for rejection of all areas of animal exploitation.
Alternatives
These days there is an endless supply of clothes which aren't made from animals. It's easy to buy products such as shoes, jackets, jumpers and scarves made from synthetic materials or natural plant fibres such as cotton, hemp or linen. Increasingly, synthetic materials are being recycled with companies now selling clothes, shoes and bags made out of recycled plastic bottles.
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