Plea to ban cat and dog fur trade

[vireo]

"Lady McCartney and Rick Wakeman were brought to Brussels to boost a campaign which has preoccupied Conservative Euro MP Struan Stevenson for years.

"He said today the problem was that most of the articles marketed in Europe using cat and dog fur were fraudulently labelled or not labelled at all, because few ordinary people would buy any product made from such furs – particularly if they knew the levels of cruelty inflicted on the animals."

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4194245

[Maru Kitteh]

1. Burlington coat factory

a few years back suffered some bad publicity because they were importing dog fur coats from China. To make matters worse the belief exists in some Asian cultures that an animal that suffers a brutal and agonizing death imparts more of it's energy to the person who consumes it.

Sometimes my species really disgusts me.

[Lorien]

2. This topic is also in LBN

and you can assume that a large percentage of DUers see nothing wrong with the pet fur trade. :eyes: