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China’s Cat and Dog Fur Trade
Los
Angeles Demonstration Against China's Dog and Cat Fur Trade
Was a HUGE Success!
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here for more info!
China’s Cat and Dog Fur Trade
Dogs awaiting their fate in China
Millions of dogs and cats in China are bludgeoned, strangled with wire nooses and literally bled to
death, just so their fur can be turned into trim and trinkets. Frequently, products made from their fur are deliberately mislabeled as other species’ fur and exported to the United States to be sold to unsuspecting consumers in retail stores.
MOST PEOPLE wearing dog and cat fur DON’T EVEN KNOW IT!
No regulations exist to govern fur farms in China which allows fur farmers to house and slaughter animals however they please – the resulting conditions, treatment and excruciating deaths are horrific. Recent undercover investigations in China's Hebei Province found horrors beyond belief. Chinese fur farm conditions make a mockery of the most elementary animal welfare standards. Dogs and cats are denied any type of compassion.
Dogs and cats are skinned alive after being pulled from their cramped cages. Workers throw animals to the ground and bludgeon them with metal rods or slam them against any hard surface available. This mangles their bones and sends these defenseless creatures into convulsions, but rarely causes immediate death. Often the dogs and cats 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. The animals, still alive, kick and writhe as their skin and fur is being cut off their bodies. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of struggling animals to allow a clean cut. When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals' heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a growing pile. Some animals are still breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals' hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned.
They are literally skinned alive!
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
We urge you to take these actions to bring an end to this cruelty!
1. WRITE OR FAX the Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. and urge him to STOP THE USE OF DOGS AND CATS FOR FUR AND TO PERMANENTLY END THE HORRIFIC CONDITIONS AT CHINA’S FUR FARMS.
Consulate General of the Peoples Republic of China
Tel: (213) 807-8088
Fax: (213) 807-8091
Email:
press@chinaconsulatela.org
2. DON’T BUY FUR OR FUR TRIM PRODUCTS! All fur items are made from the dead bodies of animals who have suffered horrifically and needlessly - no matter what species they are or what country they were killed in.
3. JOIN PAUL MCCARTNEY’S BOYCOTT of the 2008 Beijing
Olympics and all products labeled “Made in China.”
DEMONSTRATIONS
On Thursday, January 26,
2006, over 200 activists gathered at the Chinese Consulate in
Los Angeles to protest China’s dog and cat fur trade.
Signs, banners and even four-legged companion animals spread the
word about China’s dog and cat fur trade!
Check out our
events page for other planned protests, demonstrations
and events!
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