What is cruel with fur and leather?
Several issues regarding fur.
Fur is not a fabric, it is the hair and skin ripped off animals such as foxes, seals, rabbits, cats, dogs, minks, chichillas, raccoons, and all sorts of furry animals. They are used as trim for coats or blouses, boots, hats to the most common: fur coats.
Lynx caught in trap
Trapped or ranched, the animals endured terrible conditions, exposed to intense heat or cold temperatures, their babies tramped to death by other animals who are all crowded one on top of each other in small cages, defecating on top of each others, their paws all raw from the constant pressure on their chicken barb wire all over their cages. These animals are often electrocuted by prods inserted in their mouth and anus. Others are gassed.
In China, they grow and steal cats and dogs. They put them in overcrowded cages and when they transport them to kill them, these people just throw them from a 2 or 3 metters high to the floor, making the animals break their legs on impact. Then, they take them out of their cages slam the cats and dogs necks on the floor to break their necks and paralize them (but they are all alive, conscious and all capable to sense pain...), and then these people takes knives and start to peel them off alive !!!. The horror and excruciating pain of these animals can be view at: www.petavideos.org
Leg hold traps are widely use to capture furry animals. These metalic jaws, trap the animals by the legs, neck, body and mouth and cause them terrible pain for hours and most likely days. often they chew off their own paws to escape this agony, only to bleed to death and die.
In Canada, Greenland, Russia and Namibia, baby seals are beating with clubs to death for their fur. An international group of veterianarians who witnessed the hunt in 2001 in Canada, came out with the shocking evidence that a 42 % of baby seals are skinned alive!!! Many seal mothers often are killed for protecting their babies.
Leather is the skin of animals. Most of the time animals are slaughter specially for this purpose. Leather can be from cow skin to ostrich or alligator.
You may think it is not a big deal, but how would you feel if someone, kidnap you, caged you in awful conditions and then will skin you to make leather chair, boots, jacket, wallet, hat or takes your own flesh and blood baby and rip off your baby's skin and you can't do anything about it?
Sounds horrible, doesn't it?
That is what thousands of animals have to suffer everyday. All for the name of vanity and greed.
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