People avoid thinking
People don’t wish to think about difficult issues. They are aware in a distant way that not everything is right with the world. But life is too fast and most people have no time to ask abstract questions such as:
Or…
Who is the first owner of the fluffy coat
The huge Chinese fur industry supplies the world with skins from stray and often owned animals. In China cats and dogs are specially bread as well as a variety of exotic animals. Animals are kept in tiny filthy cages and those wild by natire slowly go mad. Minks are territorial animals who roam free accross areas of a few kilometers. Bread in a cage they circle round and round, hour after hour, day and night until their feet are bloody and raw to the bone. Many animal species share the same fate – all those who have had the misfortune to own a fur coat highly valued by humans.
How does it all work
When the day comes the animals are transported to the slaughter house in small wire cages, about 50cm tall in which 5-6 animals are squashed together. Many of them die on the way. Upon arrival the cages are thrown from the trucks to the ground, breaking fragile bones. Animals are taken out of the cages with sharp metal rods. Humane euthanasia picture of a generic xanax methods are expensive so the animals are most often killed by being beaten or kicked to death, or they are skinned alive. Sometimes, the freshly skinned animal, thrown on the pile of dead bodies, blinks…
And a beautiful coat is born
After similar horrors for many more animals His Magesty Man, the sentient boss of the planet, gets soft leather shoes, bags, wallets, coats, hoods, pet toys! “Hey, is this real fur?” – asks a friend. “Yes, authentic!” – boasts the owner. Amen to the first soul who lived in the fluffy coat.
What you can do
1. Check this page out, this is the oficial page of the protest where you can find details about the event in your country, then join the protest in front of your Chinese Embassy on the 16th of September. The protest is organized in association with animalsaviors.org, an Australian organization, dedicated to ending the Chinese fur trade. The organization has already sent over 1’000’000 petitions to the Chinese government, signed by people from the whole world and this protest is part of a worldwide effort to put an end to this barbarian industry.
2. Send an email to the Chinese embassy in your country. Look online for their contact details. Create your own text or just write: “Stop skinning animals alive.” They will figure out what you mean.
3. Share with friends. Ask them to do as you do.
It is acceptable not to know.
It is understandable not to want to hear.
It is a crime to see and remain silent.
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