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November 10, 2008
November 7, 2008
Thanksgiving & Things You can do to Help Animals
> Write a Letter to the Editor Urging Your Community to Boycott Circus Cruelty
> URGENT: Starving Deer Dying, Abused on Sacred Island
> Help Animals in 5 MINUTES FLAT
> When an Animal needs your Help
> Podcast : The Story of a Downed Cow
> Join the Revolution : Make a Difference Today
> Win a Tofurky for Thanksgiving
> Celebrity feature : Joan Jett testimonial
> Julie Benz Speaks Out Against Violence
November 1, 2008
Tell Sears to Stick to Faux Fur
Sears Canada has a selection of faux furs, but for some reason they’ve decided to sell real fur too. Since real fur is the cause of animal cruelty , you’d think that faux fur would be an obvious choice.
Email Sears or give them a call, and let them know that real fur is just plain cruel!
Email: home@sears.ca
Phone: 1-800-895-6685
Adapted from LiberationBC
October 21, 2008
Good news: Victory: Online Retailer Zappos Pledges to Go Fur-Free !
Just one month after launching an online campaign against Zappos, PETA is happy to announce that the company has agreed to go fur-free!
Thanks to everyone who helped win this important victory for animals!
By making this commitment, Zappos is joining Target, QVC, the Home Shopping Network, Nike, Polo Ralph Lauren, Gap, Forever 21, Wet Seal, and dozens of other companies and designers that have gone fur-free. Unfortunately, many other big-name retailers have yet to step up to the plate for animals.
Please take just a few seconds to write to Amazon.com and ask that the company follow in Zappos’ footsteps by dropping fur for good! The online megastore is currently selling a variety of fur products, including fur from rabbits and foxes.
Thanks again for standing up for animals killed for their fur by helping to win our campaign against Zappos. Please also send an e-mail to Zappos at cs@zappos.com thanking the company for going fur-free.
Sincerely,
October 20, 2008
October 17, 2008
Juicy Couture by Liz Claiborne Adopts Fur-Free Policy!
PETA has had a cooperative relationship with Liz Claiborne Inc. for many years. Through our work together, the company has made—and continues to make—many great strides to reduce the suffering of animals who are used and abused in the clothing industry.
We would like to share an exciting development that has resulted from our discussions with Liz Claiborne Inc.: Juicy Couture—a high-end clothing company owned by Liz Claiborne Inc.—has now adopted a permanent fur-free policy. While Juicy Couture is still selling some fur items that were stocked before this policy was adopted, it has assured us that no new fur items will be procured and that as soon as the current stock of items has gone, the company will be completely fur-free.
We applaud Liz Claiborne and Juicy Couture for making this move, which will spare animals from suffering all the torment and abuse inherent in fur production.
Unfortunately, some companies continue to sell fur despite the fact that new evidence of horrific cruelty is exposed year after year. PETA Asia-Pacific’s recent undercover investigation in the Shandong region of China, for instance, produced video footage of rabbits who kicked and screamed as they were slaughtered. Another investigation into rabbit fur farms in France showed similar cruelty.
We need you to speak out and let the world know that it is never OK for any company to sell fur. Please let your voice be heard by urging these holdouts to go fur-free once and for all!
Armani
After watching PETA’s shocking new exposé of the rabbit-fur industry you’ll understand how urgent your voice is needed! Please contact Armani immediately and forward the video on to everyone you know!
Donna Karan
Donna Karan’s top competitors have made fur-free commitments, and it’s past time for her to do the same. Please urge Donna Karan to discontinue the sale of all fur items immediately.
Zappos.com
Online shoe retailer Zappos.com prides itself on good customer service, but no compassionate shopper wants to buy from a company that promotes the awful cruelty of the fur industry. Please demand that Zappos institutes a permanent fur-free policy today.
Canada Goose
Canada Goose, an outerwear retailer, knows about the suffering that goes into every fur-trimmed garment, but the company continues to contribute to it by using fur. Please ask Canada Goose to remove fur from their collections permanently!
Please also add PETA’s recent exposé of rabbit fur farms to your social networking pages or personal Web site to show friends and family why they should never wear fur.
With constant vigilance and your continued support, we will see a completely fur-free shopping season. Thank you for contacting the companies above and for helping make the world safer for fur-bearing animals.
Sincerely,
Erin Edwards
Activist Liaison
October 9, 2008
Gillian Anderson Exposes Giorgio Armani in Shocking Video: Undercover Exposé Shows Rabbits Screaming During Slaughter
Undercover Exposé Shows Rabbits Screaming During Slaughter
Actress Gillian Anderson narrates new undercover footage from rabbit fur farms in China and France—countries designer Giorgio Armani is known to purchase fur from. Watch the investigation footage and write to Armani demanding that he drops fur now!
Find out more about Armani on peta.org.
September 30, 2008
August 6, 2008
U.S. nude swimmer defies ban on animal rights protest in Beijing Olympics 2008
U.S. swimmer Amanda Beard unveiled a demure nude photograph of herself urging women “Don’t wear fur” on Wednesday, hours after Chinese authorities had prevented her from her staging a news conference for “safety” reasons.
“What happens with animals when their skin is ripped from their bodies when they are still alive, it’s heartbreaking for me,” she said. The Olympics provided a great platform for making those views known, she added. > More
Source: Yahoo! News , PETA
Donna Karan—Bunny Butcher Exposed
Donna Karan promised to stop using fur in her designs, but continues to butcher bunnies for “fashion”. Urge Karan to end the use of all fur now! READ MORE
Top 10 Reasons Not to Eat Pigs
Here are our top 10 reasons to keep pork off your fork and put delicious cruelty-free alternatives on your plate instead. READ MORE
July 30, 2008
Help Dogs and Cats abused by the Fur Industry
PETA is seizing the international spotlight of the Summer Olympics to help animals by exposing the nightmarish conditions for dogs, cats, and other animals who are unlucky enough to be on Chinese fur farms.
China is one of the world’s largest suppliers of animal fur. More than 95 percent of China’s finished fur garments are exported for sale overseas, and much of it is sold in North America.
The video footage from PETA’s undercover investigations on Chinese fur farms have revealed that dogs—including German shepherds and golden retrievers—and defenseless tabby and Siamese cats were strung up by their legs or tails and skinned alive. Their fur is often labeled as “Asian jackal,” “rabbit,” or “raccoon” fur and sold to unwitting consumers around the world.
If someone feels uncomfortable wearing the skin of a kitten or a puppy, they should certainly be uncomfortable wearing the skins of rabbits, raccoons, and other animals.
As our undercover video footage reveals, the suffering of dogs, cats, and other animals in China’s fur industry is extreme. After spending their lives crammed together in filthy, homemade wire-mesh cages, they are thrown onto trucks and bludgeoned, poisoned, electrocuted, or even boiled alive before their skin is ripped off their bodies. Some animals in the video footage are still conscious and look up at the camera while they are skinned.
I hope that you will make a donation to PETA to help our work for animals who are caught up in China’s wretched fur industry. Please help us push harder with our global campaign to stop the torture of animals for their fur. The support of caring individuals like you is the best hope for ending this horrific industry.
As you know, there is absolutely no acceptable use of animal fur in our society: not for jackets, hats, boots, purses, glove linings, trinkets, cat toys, consumer vanity, or corporate greed. Killing animals for their skin is repugnant, intolerable, and cruel.
Yet the slaughter of innocent animals continues.
But working together, we can save millions of individual animals in China and around the world from suffering. Please make your special gift to help animals today.
Because of supporters like you, PETA has been able to reduce the suffering of so many animals already. We’ve convinced some of the world’s leading designers and retailers—including Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Polo Ralph Lauren, and Ann Taylor—to adopt permanent no-fur policies, and countless people have agreed to stop wearing and buying fur. But we have much, much more to do before all animal suffering for the sake of fashion ends.
Please help us devastate this industry, which thrives on animal misery. Your donation to PETA today will turn up the heat on the Chinese government to close these cruel fur farms and auctions, and it will help convince more people all over the world to say “No” to fur forever.
Thank you for standing up for animals’ rights.
Kind regards,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President
People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals
P.S. PETA’s anti-fur campaign is truly global: We target companies everywhere that supply and sell fur, from Chinese fur farms to North American retailers, like the Burlington Coat Factory, that continue to sell fur. But we need your support to get our investigators inside these operations, mobilize our grassroots activists, and conduct our hard-hitting media campaigns. Your online donation to PETA today can help us save animals who are in danger of being tortured and killed for their skin.