Please Don't Wear Us!

[marysgurl]

Martha Stewart on Wearing Fur

This is not easy to watch, but please try. Even if you don't wear fur, you may know someone who does. Maybe you can help change their heart.

Thanks.

[marysgurl]

What's Wrong With Fur?

This time of year brings out fur-trimmed coats, gloves, and scarves and even whole coats made of fur—all of which are a painful, in-your-face reminder about the callousness of cruelty to animals for the sake of "fashion."

If you're as disgusted as I am, and I'm hoping that you are, please read on. I need your help to get the message out to friends, family members, and colleagues—and even strangers—about what's wrong with fur. Furriers and their cohorts in the fashion industry are doing everything that they can to promote fur, and they're even disguising the species of the animals the fur came from or mislabeling the fur as fake.

When someone—anyone—asks you what's wrong with wearing fur, please tell them: PLENTY!

For starters, there is not a single law protecting the millions of animals killed each year by the U.S. fur industry. This means that it's perfectly legal to cram minks, foxes, raccoons, and chinchillas into tiny, filthy wire cages—where they stay for months or years, covered in feces and parasites and without proper food, water, or shelter from the elements—and then kill them by poisoning, gassing, neck-breaking, or anal electrocution as the animals scream and writhe in pain.

And it means that it's also perfectly legal to trap lynx, coyotes, and wolves in the wild and leave them to suffer, crying out in agony, for days or even weeks before stomping them to death or skinning them alive.

What's more, even dogs and cats are killed for their fur. PETA's recent undercover investigation into the Chinese fur trade revealed unimaginable cruelty. Millions of dogs and cats are bludgeoned, boiled, strangled with wire nooses, and bled to death before they are skinned for their fur. Imagine if your animal companion were stolen, killed, and then made into fur trinkets or fur trim for American consumers.

It's illegal to import dog and cat fur into the United States, but that apparently hasn't stopped the fur trade. The fur industry simply mislabels the fur, saying that it is from foxes, raccoons, or other species. China supplies more than half of the finished fur garments that are sold in the United States.

So if you buy anything with any fur whatsoever, you could be wearing someone's beloved dog or cat. With that in mind, when you're asked what's wrong with fur, please tell people that every fur coat, lining, or trim can represent the immense suffering of several dozen animals. That's right, several dozen—just for one garment!

With so many alternatives available to consumers, why wear fur? Why perpetuate the cruel abuse and murder of millions of dogs, cats, foxes, minks, chinchillas, raccoons, and other creatures? That's the real question. See why dozens of celebrities have said NO to fur.

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We need your immediate help to stop the carnage taking place on fur farms around the world—including the slaughter of nearly 2 million cats and hundreds of thousands of dogs every year in China.

PETA is launching a campaign to sign up consumers everywhere to say "NO!" to fur! Our goal is to get 75,000 people to take the pledge by March 5.

You can do three things RIGHT NOW to help us meet our goal and expose these cruel and barbaric atrocities—and ultimately close down the international fur trade:

Take our pledge to go fur-free.

Urge at least five friends to take the pledge today.

Make the largest donation that you can to support our campaign.
Why PETA Is Asking You to Sign the Pledge

You may wonder why we're asking you to take this pledge when you don't even buy or wear fur. Or do you? You see, this isn't just about fur coats. This is about all the other ways that fur is creeping into our daily lives—right now—often without us even knowing it.

Ms. Tinsley, it'll only take a minute, right now, to take the pledge, tell your friends, and make a gift to support PETA's campaign to stop the cruel and barbaric slaughter of innocent animals.

I'm talking about that toy you purchased for your cat at the pet-supply store. It could be made from the skin of another cat who was stolen from her home, loaded onto a truck crate with thousands of other cats, forced to endure days of torture while she was transported to a slaughterhouse in northern China, and then cruelly beaten and boiled alive for her fur. But the label won't tell you that.

Or those little tassels on a pair of gloves. Those might be the fur of a German shepherd or a chow chow, who was once loved and cherished—and then, one day he was kidnapped and sold at the local animal market. After days without water or food and after being beaten repeatedly by his captors, he was bludgeoned to death, skinned alive, or electrocuted. Did the label mention that?

You see, the fur industry is so desperate to push its cruel wares that it has even stooped to lying to unsuspecting consumers, intentionally mislabeling fur garments as fake—or as coming from rabbits or other animals, when they're actually from cats and dogs. The fact is that it takes expensive DNA tests to prove what kind of animal was killed to make every piece of fur trim, coat collar, glove lining, cat toy, or furry trinket. As you can imagine, these tests are rarely if ever done.

That's why it's up to consumers like you and me to pay close attention to what we buy, to question retailers about their supposedly fake-fur products, to pledge never to buy any product that could potentially contain real fur, and to spread the word to our friends, family, coworkers, and acquaintances.

PETA is leading the fight against the fur trade, and we're making significant progress—including getting major retailers such as J.Crew, Wet Seal, and others to pull fur from their stores forever. Our undercover investigations into the nightmarish world of fur farms are prompting millions to learn the truth about fur. But none of what we do is possible without your support. As you add your name to those of thousands of others who are saying "no" to the fur industry's attempts to creep into our everyday lives, please also consider making a gift to support PETA's unique and vital work to end this abuse!

Very truly yours,

Ingrid E. Newkirk
President

Please Take the Pledge

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[quettalee]

i did my baby!!!

i'll just have to settle for a big dimond ring from u instead of a mink coat on our 10th anniversary huh?
hehe!!

[marysgurl]

Thank you, darlin! Now just let me nuzzle that one little spot on your neck right there below your ear....c'mon now....I think you'll like it....hmm??....

A simple diamond for all you put up with from me... ?? ...

Let's say we make it the whole diamond mine?

[marysgurl]

Anything for you, mylove!

[quettalee]

awww my baby....
i already have everything a girl could ever want!!!

[Quettalee]

Save the Sheep

[Quettalee]

PETA Targets Beyonce at Dinner
Jun 16, 06:35 PM EDT


NEW YORK (AP) -- Beyonce Knowles had several surprise guests at a recent dinner, where members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals peppered the pop star with questions about her fur use.

An eBay auction offered fans a chance to dine with Knowles, and PETA secretly placed the winning bid. At the dinner Wednesday at the chic Nobu 57 restaurant, members of the animal rights group confronted Knowles about wearing fur coats and using fur in her clothing line, House of Dereon.

A video of the encounter, posted on www.tmz.com/ at Beyonce, shows a stunned Knowles, unresponsive to the allegations and appealing to others in her group to react. The PETA guests, whose tone was conversational but persistent, are eventually kicked out of the restaurant.

A spokesman for the singer told The Associated Press on Friday that Knowles, 24, had no comment on the incident.

PETA, known for its untraditional methods of raising awareness about animal rights, said it had previously attempted to reach Knowles through faxes, letters and rallies outside her concerts.

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Ralph Lauren Goes Fur-Free!

Ralph Lauren, long recognized as a leader in fashion, is now also a leader in compassion after announcing a precedent-setting decision to no longer use fur in any of his apparel or home collections, based purely on ethical grounds.

The Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation had been considering eliminating fur from its lines for some time and finally issued a statement making its decision to go fur-free official after a series of meetings with PETA during which executives viewed grisly undercover video footage of fur farms in China, where more than half the finished fur garments imported for sale in the United States are sourced. Shortly after meetings with PETA in February and March 2006, the company committed to pulling all fur from its shelves. “Fur has never been an integral part of our design strategy …,” said a Polo Ralph Lauren spokesperson. “We are publicly announcing this decision because the use of fur has been under review internally and we feel that the time is right to take this action.”

On fur farms in China, animals are confined to tiny wire cages through all weather extremes. Before they are skinned, workers bludgeon them with metal rods and slam them against the ground, breaking their bones but not always killing them. Many animals are skinned while they are still alive.

The Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation sent PETA a signed statement of assurance acknowledging its intent to pull all advertising for fur, cancel all pending orders for fur products, and beginning with its holiday 2006 collections, no longer sell any fur products. Twelve hundred of its brand-new fall 2006 fur-trimmed coats will be donated to charities in developing nations.

Ralph Lauren’s compassionate, progressive decision sends a powerful message to the clothing industry that torturing and killing rabbits, raccoons, foxes, and other animals for fashion won’t be tolerated.

What You Can Do
If you know someone who still wears fur, urge him or her to watch this video. Also, please write to Ralph Lauren and thank him for this decision:

Ralph LaurenPolo Ralph Lauren Corporation
650 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10022
[e-mail]

[Quettalee]

Demand Change From the Chinese Government!

In a hideously cruel response to an outbreak of rabies in late July, authorities in Mouding County in Southwest China ordered the killing of more than 50,000 dogs, including 4,000 who were immunized against the disease. Officials clubbed many animals to death in the street right before their guardians' eyes. Animals who were not beaten mercilessly died equally violent, gruesome deaths by poisoning or electrocution. Last week, the Chinese government issued orders to kill an additional 500,000 dogs. None of these beloved companions will have the benefit of a humane death, because there isn’t a single law in China that prevents cruelty to animals.

China has a long history of cruelty and violence toward animals. In live-animal markets, animals—including dogs and cats—are skinned alive for their fur; merchants hack flesh from animals, piece by piece, until they finally bleed to death; and animals routinely suffer from broken limbs because they are thrown from the tops of transport trucks onto concrete floors.

Please demand that the Chinese government halt the planned slaughter of dogs and enact strict anti-cruelty laws immediately. PETA will collect these letters, and our president will personally present them to the Chinese government. Also, be sure to forward this alert to your friends and family members and ask them to speak up today.

[Quettalee]

Please Send China a Message

[quettalee]

i had read about that too my baby!!!
how can they not already have laws for animals!!!
i sent them a message!!!

[Quettalee]

If you think it's OK to wear wool, please click on the link...

Pink Speaks Out For the Sheep

Thank you.

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The Chineese Fur Trades

This is about dogs and cats in China

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnTcjJ9JZFo

WARNING very graphic, and very sad.