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Around
Europe and beyond ... anti-fur campaigners
drive home the message
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Croatia has one of the best run animal
welfare groups in Eastern Europe, but the country is also the world's
largest exporter of Chinchilla fur.
Since being launched five years ago
"Animal Friends Croatia" (AFC) have achieved very positive
response in their aims to ban fur trading and to bring about new
animal welfare laws.
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Suported by PETA, Goran Višnjic,
Croatian actor from the TV series E.R. joined a recent AFC anti-fur
campaign with his message "If you wouldn't wear your dog - please
don't wear any fur!"
Višnjic wants consumers to know that for each fur coat, collar,
or cuff, animals are trapped, drowned, or beaten to death in
the wild or gassed, strangled, or electrocuted on fur farms.
He was inspired to speak out after seeing a magazine article
featuring fur. "[My wife and I] were disgusted," he said. "What's
going on? Civilization is advancing, but some people are going
backwards. Today we can use many different materials to warm
ourselves without killing other beings." |
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In Zagreb and towns around the
country, campaigners have been dressed up as chinchillas while
handing out leaflets to women in fur coats. In the photo left,
fire eaters burn fur coats in the main streets of Zagreb.
Singer, Sophie Ellie Bextor has also been helping to promote
AFC's message and buses and billboards are regularly covered
with campaign posters.
Even the city's fashion college have held impromptu fashion
shows at bus stations to help spread the message. |
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