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Published April
2003 - Updated June 2005
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Real
Fur is Back in Fashion
Cats
and dogs are Being Farmed for Fur in the EU
Real
Fur is Back in Fashion
An insensitive
new generation of fashion followers are buying and wearing real
fur clothing again. In a shocking report by BBC The Money Programme,
young people said that "moral objections are old hat"...
Fur wearing
had fallen sharply by the end of the 1980s, helped along by hard
hitting anti-fur campaigns. These included David Bailey's shocking
cinema advert of a model strutting the cat-walk dressed in a fur
coat that begins to splatter copious amounts of blood across the
stage and then the spectators. Then there was the advert of a selection
of un-clothed super-models, claiming they would rather go naked
than wear fur. At that time, emotions were so high about the unpleasentness
of clothes made of dead animals that it became simply un-cool to
be seen wearing anything that resembled one. (even though, ironically,
leatherwear never seemed to loose favour).
Astonishingly, the trend of dressing up in furry dead creatures
has now re-emerged in the mid 2000's. This upturn in sales has brought
about the return of the infamous practice of seal clubbing. One
million will be killed over the next three years for their fur and
in 2005, 300,000 seal pups are being clubbed to death, the largest
cull since 1970.
The rise in the killing of seal pups relates directly with fashion
trends. Although the USA, and some of Europe banned the import of
seal products, other countries like Poland and Russia are cashing
in on the latest demand, which includes the fur of four week old
baby seals.
To read this
report in full and to learn more about animals killed for fur, the
fur industry and opinions from fashion models visit our "Think
About Fur" site
Cats
and dogs are Being Farmed for Fur in the EU
A BBC News
report and a leading UK newspaper in 2003 says it has seen evidence
suggesting that tens of thousands of cats and dogs are being farmed
for their skins inside Europe ...
Although Italy
and the UK are the only countries to ban fur farming, countries
like Belgium are thought to be farming cats for fur blankets etc.
It is thought
that tens or even hundreds of thousands of cats and dog skins are
traded in Europe each year. It has also been revealed that similar
to far east countries, stray cats and dogs are being rounded up
around Europe for skinning, then made into clothing, blankets and
accessories. Many are also stolen pets. Items found on sale include
a blanket in Copenhagen made out of the coats of four golden retrievers
- and in Berlin, Germany, a full-length coat made from the skins
of 42 Alsatian puppies. Many of these products are also labelled
misleadingly to disguise their true origins.
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