01-31-2006, 12:48 PM
Hey guys,
I'm far from a protesting-feminist-ready-to-lie-down-on-a-highway-vegan-hippie, but I think it would be pretty hard for anyone who's ever petted a dog or cat not to care about this video. I'm not a big PETA activist, but Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) made a 2 min. long video about the fur trade in China. It's pretty short, so if you have a second (or 114), check it out:
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Anthony
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China—where not a single law exists to protect animals on fur farms—has become the world's leading exporter of fur. An undercover investigation found that millions of dogs and cats in China are bludgeoned, hanged, strangled with wire nooses, and bled to death for their fur, which is often intentionally mislabelled as fur from other species. PETA has also obtained undercover video footage that shows that fur farmers in China swing foxes and raccoon dogs by their hind legs and smash their heads on the ground —breaking the animals' necks but leaving them panting, blinking, and conscious as they are skinned alive.
Animals trapped in the wild for their fur often suffer for days before they are stomped or bludgeoned to death. Some, especially nursing mothers, have been known to chew off their own limbs in an attempt to escape the traps. Animals on fur farms live in tiny, filthy cages where they are exposed to all weather extremes and suffer severe psychological and physical distress before they are poisoned, gassed, and electrocuted or have their necks broken as they scream and writhe in pain.
I'm far from a protesting-feminist-ready-to-lie-down-on-a-highway-vegan-hippie, but I think it would be pretty hard for anyone who's ever petted a dog or cat not to care about this video. I'm not a big PETA activist, but Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) made a 2 min. long video about the fur trade in China. It's pretty short, so if you have a second (or 114), check it out:
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Anthony
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China—where not a single law exists to protect animals on fur farms—has become the world's leading exporter of fur. An undercover investigation found that millions of dogs and cats in China are bludgeoned, hanged, strangled with wire nooses, and bled to death for their fur, which is often intentionally mislabelled as fur from other species. PETA has also obtained undercover video footage that shows that fur farmers in China swing foxes and raccoon dogs by their hind legs and smash their heads on the ground —breaking the animals' necks but leaving them panting, blinking, and conscious as they are skinned alive.
Animals trapped in the wild for their fur often suffer for days before they are stomped or bludgeoned to death. Some, especially nursing mothers, have been known to chew off their own limbs in an attempt to escape the traps. Animals on fur farms live in tiny, filthy cages where they are exposed to all weather extremes and suffer severe psychological and physical distress before they are poisoned, gassed, and electrocuted or have their necks broken as they scream and writhe in pain.