Shocking suffering revealed on Canadian mink fur farm.

New undercover footage from a Canadian fur farm has resulted in charges of 14 counts of animal cruelty.  The Los Angeles-based Last Chance For Animals organisation gathered the footage over a period of 12 months. The investigation documents the type of horrific suffering on a mink farm that is all too common and why fur farming worldwide has to be banned. Apologists for the fur trade and anyone wearing real
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Furberry no more? Ask Burberry to go fur free

For years we’ve been campaigning against Burberry’s sick obsession with fur. But now they’re reviewing all of their fur products, with a viewing to ending their use. This would be a great victory for the anti-fur campaign and a major blow for the morally bankrupt fur industry. Please send emails to customer.service@burberry.com, urging them to become Fur Free Retailers. Suggested text is below. I am encouraged to see the news
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Hong Kong’s fur fair is shocking. But these brilliant activists are taking them on.

Last week saw the news about anti-fur activists organising an unprecedented demo outside an international fur fair in Hong Kong, calling for an end the brutal fur trade. The fur fair in Hong Kong is important to the anti-fur campaign because it is a key bridge between fur production in Europe and the key markets for fur demand, especially China. Here are some pictures from the excellent demo..    
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Wolf & Badger sign up to be a ‘Fur Free Retailer’

Respect for Animals is delighted to announce that world leader in independent fashion, Wolf & Badger, has signed up to the official Fur Free Retailer program. With prestigious stores in London’s Mayfair and Notting Hill, as well as in New York, Wolf & Badger sells the world’s best independent fashion, jewellery, accessory, homeware and beauty brands. Wolf & Badger is home to over 600 of the world’s best designers just
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PETITION: Canada Goose, stop using real fur and become a Fur Free Retailer

Gucci have done it. Michael Kors has done it. Armani, Hugo Boss, many high street retailers.. the list goes on. They are all official Fur Free Retailers. But some companies still use and sell real fur ‘harvested’ from astonishingly cruel practices.  This can’t go on. Fur belongs in the past. One of the worst offenders is Canada Goose. That’s why we are supporting this new petition. Canada Goose produce jackets
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Real fur Canada Goose jacket worn by BBC News correspondent

NEW CANADA GOOSE PETITION LAUNCHED Sign the petition and ask Canada Goose to become a Fur Free Retailer : https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/100/915/426/   Many Respect for Animals supporters have been in touch after tuning into BBC News At Ten on both 3 and 4 January, only to be shocked and angered to see North American Correspondent Jon Sopel wearing a Canada Goose jacket with real fur trim.  This comes shortly after Alexandra
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Fashion Giants Agree That The Future Of Fashion Is Fur Free

As more and more big fashion retailers become fur-free, the Fur Free Retailer (FFR) website has been re-launched with a new, more user-friendly look. The Yoox Net-a-Porter group has just become the 750th member of the FFR program joining UK high street retailers M&S, John Lewis, Liberty and Monsoon. As the global Fur Free Retailer (FFR) program welcomes YOOX NET-A-PORTER as its 750th member since its formation in 2002 its
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Urgent: Ask Hythe Council To Say No To Real Fur Mayoral Robes

On Thursday, Hythe town councillors will consider whether to pay over £1400 for new mayoral robes made from real fur, or a fake fur robe costing hundreds of pounds less. The real fur robe will be made from muskrat (also known as a musquash) fur, a medium sized semi-aquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a flat tail.  Native to North America, there are cruelly trapped using barbaric devices just
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Koalas, Black August and the long bloody history of the fur trade

This August saw the 90th anniversary of one of the most shameful periods in the history of the fur trade, an industry that has left a trail of blood, death and extinction in its wake for centuries.  ‘Black August’, as the month has been since notoriously remembered, occurred in 1927 when the Queensland Government declared ‘open season’ on the iconic marsupials. During Black August, 600,000 koala pelts were collected, but
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How many animals have to die for a fur coat?

Click on the image to see how many of these beautuful animals have to be killed just for a fur coat that nobody really needs.  Remember: Fur trim isn’t the ‘leftovers’ from making full length fur coats. It depends on the style and size of the garment but here is a guide to the number of animals that suffer and die for ‘fashion’.
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