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Campaigns Outrage over clubbing seals for their fur Published in THE JOURNAL NEWS
www.thejournalnews.com 4/1/06: (Original publication: April 1, 2006) The clubbing has begun: Animal Defenders of Westchester joins with
millions of outraged citizens in condemning the Canadian seal hunt, where
almost half-a-million animals, some as young as 12 days, are beaten to death
for their skin. This skin, sometimes yanked while the animal is still alive,
fuels the fur industry's lust for money. The carcass is usually left to rot.
Every single fur-wearer is to blame for this atrocity, by wrongly and
selfishly equating real fur with prestige and beauty. Some say they won't
wear this particular fur � but how do you know where your fur came from? And
do you honestly expect anyone to believe that you check? In most of the world, fur farms are unregulated, so chinchillas, foxes,
minks, rabbits and raccoons are kept in cramped, overcrowded wire cages,
amid their own filth. Stressed by such conditions they often go mad, turning to cannibalism and
self-mutilation before they are killed, often by having their necks broken
while conscious, or through genital or anal electrocution. In China, cats
are skinned alive while being restrained with a noose around their necks.
This is the cost of vanity. It is time for the carnage to end. These are living, precious beings, not
blocks of wood. What you mistakenly consider a fashion must-have is dripping
in blood and suffering. If you don't buy them, they won't kill them: Don't
wear fur. Kiley Blackman , Yonkers Fair Use Notice: This document may contain
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