Just in Time for Spring Cleaning, Group Encourages Website Visitors to Give Fur-Flaunting Friends and Family a Crash Course in Compassion
For
Immediate Release:
March
25, 2013
Contact:
Sophia
Charchuk 202-483-7382
Norfolk, Va. -- As households across the nation face the annual chore of spring cleaning, fur-wearing family members could be getting an in-your-face message to rid their closets of cruelty. That's because the folks at PETA have come up with a printable hanger "sale" tag that shows a caged rabbit and reads, "100%Skinned Off!" It goes on to explain, "Animals raised for their fur are beaten, electrocuted, and sometimes even skinned alive. Don't like it? Don't buy fur." The tags can be viewed and printed here.
"No one should die so that their skin can be worn by someone else—and that includes the millions of foxes, rabbits, minks, and other animals abused and slaughtered for their fur every year," says Action Team Director Marta Holmberg. "Our new fur 'sale' tags will remind friends and family members that there's nothing fashionable about a lifetime of suffering and a painful and terrifying death."
Every year, humans kill millions of animals for fashion. Foxes on fur farms are kept in cages so small that they go insane. Snakes are commonly nailed to trees and skinned alive. In the U.S., most animals whose skin is turned into leather endure all the horrors of factory farming, including extreme crowding and confinement, deprivation, castration, branding, tail-docking, and dehorning—all without being given any painkillers. In China—where there are no penalties for abusing animals on fur farms—millions of cats and dogs are strangled or bled to death for their fur, which is often intentionally mislabeled as that of other animals.
A PETA video exposé narrated by The Newsroom star Olivia Munn was recently released with new footage revealing the brutality on Chinese fur farms captured by PETA undercover investigators. Animals trapped for fur endure excruciating pain before their chests are stomped on or their necks are broken by trappers. In Canada, seal pups are shot or have their heads bashed in while other babies watch in fear and try in vain to escape.
For more information, please visit PETA's Action Centeror PETA.org.