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We know this
is not a direct subject to our website, but after we have seen the video about
this massive cruelty to animals on Chinese fur farms, we could not just sit there
any longer and do nothing. After this video we were even ashamed to belong to
the highly intelligent (?) race of human beings.
When undercover investigators made their way onto Chinese fur farms recently,
they found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers
flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them.
When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal's leg,
the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals
who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut. When the fur is finally peeled off
over the animals' heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of
those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps
and blinking slowly. Some of the animals' hearts are still beating five to ten
minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog
on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and
stare into the camera.
Before they are skinned alive, animals are pulled from their cages and thrown
to the ground. Workers bludgeon them with metal rods or slam them on hard surfaces,
causing broken bones and convulsions but not always immediate death. Animals watch
helplessly as workers make their way down the row.
Undercover investigators from Swiss Animal Protection/EAST International recently
toured fur farms in China's Hebei Province, and it quickly became clear why outsiders
are banned from visiting. There are no regulations governing fur farms in China
- farmers can house and slaughter animals however they see fit - meaning miserable
lives and excruciating deaths.
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The
investigators found horrors beyond their worst imaginings and concluded: "Conditions
on Chinese fur farms make a mockery of the most elementary animal welfare standards.
In their lives and their unspeakable deaths, these animals have been denied even
the simplest acts of kindness."
On these farms, foxes, minks, rabbits, and other animals pace and shiver in outdoor
wire cages, exposed to driving rain, freezing nights, and, at other times, scorching
sun. Mother animals, who are driven crazy from rough handling and intense confinement
and have nowhere to hide while giving birth, often kill their babies after delivering
litters. Disease and injuries are widespread, and animals suffering from anxiety-induced
psychosis chew on their own limbs and throw themselves repeatedly against the
cage bars.
The globalization of the fur trade has made it impossible to know where fur products
come from. Skins move through international auction houses and are purchased and
distributed to manufacturers around the world, and finished goods are often exported.
China supplies more than half of the finished fur garments imported for sale in
the United States. Even if a fur garment's label says it was made in a European
country, the animals were likely raised and slaughtered elsewhere - possibly on
an unregulated Chinese fur farm.
Because a fur's origin can't be traced, anyone who wears any fur at all shares
the blame for the horrific conditions on Chinese fur farms. The only way to prevent
such unimaginable cruelty is never to wear any fur.
(Source: www.furisdead.com) |
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