"FUR IS DEAD"

Every year millions of coyotes, foxes, raccoons, rabbits, bobcats and 
other animals find themselves locked in spring loaded leg-hold traps which are now
banned in at least 70 countries and in Florida, Rhode Island, and 
New Jersey. 
*The number of animals needed to make a 40-inch coat varies, 
depending on the animal used: 15 beavers, 16 coyotes, 18 Lynxes,
45 opossums, 50 muskrats. (Multiply by 3 to get the total number
of animals killed per coat.
*Trapping is not an effective tool for "wildlife management"
contrary to fur industry propaganda. Trapping disrupts wildlife
populations by killing healthy animals needed to keep the
species strong and populations are further damaged when the parents
of young animals are killed.
           In the interest of profit animals are dispatched by the
cheapest methods possible, which are usually also the most crude,
and cruel, e.g., anal electrocution, poisoning with weed killer,
and soffocation or braking their necks.

  • NO SKIN OFF THEIR BACKS

    • In Australia and other countries it is not the bloody fur trade they have to combat, its the wool industry. Most breeders create sheep called Merinos, who are extremely wrinkled (more wrinkles means more wool). This unnatural overload of wool causes many of sheep to die of heat exhaustion, as well as of exposure to cold and damp after late shearing. One of the worst and most painful wool industry practices is mulesing: slicing off large sections of a lamb's backside (skin, not wool with shears and without anesthesia). Farmers employ this practice because the bloody wound when and if it heals three to five painful weeks later, will pull the skin tight and prevent moisture and urine from collecting in the Merino's skin. Sheep are violently pinned down and often cut from the rough shearing that is inevitable when speed means money. Farmers use a hot tar compound to seal the wounds. Farms use computer controlled shearing machinery that holds the sheep's face in a clamp, and a sensor directs a shearing comb that cal fail to circumvent teats and other protrusions. So many lambs and sheeps endure ear-punching, tal-ducking and castration because of this.
    Silk, many people think of it as natural, not realizing that farmers boil or steam the silkworms alive in their cocoons by the thousands. It has been well established that silkworms can feel the pain.
    Down, it is the feathers of ducks and geese. Most down in pillows, parkas and comforters comes from birds who have endured a life of preparation for the slaughterhouse. The rest derives from geese raised for down and anyone who has plucked her or his eyebrows can imagine how painful it is for an animal to be plucked of all their feathers not just once but 4 or 5 times in their life span.

    BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER OR IN THE ANIMAL THAT GAVE IT TO YOU

    Companies' slick advertisment of lipstick, furniture polish, and other cosmetic and household products never include descriptions of what happens to the millions of rabbits, guinea pigs, and other animals still maimed and killed annually by many companies in crude product tests. Don't be fooled when the companies tell you testing is needed because there is no law that mandates this for cosmetic or household products. Never fear, more than 300 companies, including the Body Shop, Paul Mitchell, and Aveda, manufacture safe, gentle, effective products that are not tested animals. They are tested through in vitro studies, with sophisticated computer models, and on human skin (cloned or attached to a volunteer) There are however beauty companies that will not even give non testing on animals a chance, some of them include, L'Oreal, Procter & Gamble, and Estee Lauder.

  • AINIMAL INGREDIANTS THAT ARE HIDDEN

    • Animal bits and peices (body fats, stomach linings, and other slaughter house by-products) often lurk in foods you'd never dream containd then, like cookies, flour tortillas, and roasted sunflower seeds. Also in cany cosmetics such as toiletries you smear on your face and rub in you hair. Brushes for blush and eye makeup are commonly made of hari from the inside of a cow's ear, and some toothpastes and medicines have rendered beef fat or tallow in them. This extrememly important why you should always read the labels on foods as well as anything you by or purchase that has a label. Unfortantetly, it is still vitually impossible to totally eliminate all cruelty inherent in our contemporary lifstyle, but the good news is that you can greatly reduce it by being an informed consumer.Become a label reader and learn to identify the mysterious ingredients and question waiters, chefs, doctors and beauticians and other when in doubt. The following range from the obvious to the obscure, but all can be easy to overlook:
    LARD: Fat form hog abdomens, often in commercial Mexican refried beans, french fries, baked goods. Alternatives: Pure vegatible oil's.
    GELATIN: Animal protien obtain from the boiling of animal bones or skin. Found in pudding's, gelatins, candy, marshmallows, cakes, ice cream, and some yougurts. Also, shampoos, face masks and othe .
    COLLAGEN: A fibrous protein in vertebrates usully derived from animal tissue. Used widely in cosmetics.
    ETHICAL_AND_ACTIVIST_GROUPS

  • PETA_ON-LINE

  • LINKS

  • NON-LEATHER
    Alternatives to leather, silk, down, and other's

  • SLAUGHTER_HOUSE
    PEOPLE WITH WEAK STOMAMACHS BEWARE!!

    EMAIL