To use fur as a fashion item is selfish and cruel.
But what really gets my goat is when celebs turncoat.
In the late 80's Madonna was very verbal on being anti fur, she went jogging in hype park while here on tour and always wore an anti fur message on her t-shirt saying "Fur is worn by beautiful animals and ugly people."
So why does she now wear fur and is even taken to wearing mink fur on her eyelashes... yes thats right.... her eye lashes.
Take Naomi Campbell was sacked from being a PETA representative after she wore a full-length mink coat at a Milan fashion show.
Its shocking at what some animals go through:
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The shocking footage from a recent investigation into the Chinese dog and cat fur industry reveals the slaughter of millions of dogs and cats that 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 mislabeled 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.
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How many fur bearing animals are slaughtered for one coat?
To make a 40 inch fur coat, it takes about:
200 chinchilla
45 opossums
20 foxes
50 muskrats
125 ermines
40 raccoons
18 lynxes
20 otters
100 squirrels
35 rabbits
16 coyotes
8 seals
60 mink
30 rex rabbits
16 bobcats
15 wolves
50 sables
25 skunks
12 silver foxes
100 hamsters*
*Shop found making jackets with lining made out of fur from hamsters
and abour 100 hamsters were killed for each jacket.
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