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10 EFFECTIVE ACTIONS
YOU CAN TAKE
AGAINST FUR
• Always wear an anti-fur button (available from PETA).
• Carry our fur cards and leaflets (available from PETA).
• Write letters to the editor. Let readers know that animals on fur farms are kept in tiny, filthy cages and are killed by suffocation, neck breaking, or genital electrocution.
• Show Stella McCartney’s fur farming exposé in your community! To order, send $5 to PETA, 501 Front St., Norfolk, VA 23510. In the U.K., send £3 to PETA, 29 Innes Gardens, London SW15 3AB.
• Don’t ever let a fur-wearer pass by without saying SOMETHING.
• Pay to place our ads in local papers.
• Complain to stores and catalogs that carry fur.
• Donate furs to PETA.
• Leave this article in your office lunchroom.
• Sponsor a PETA anti-fur billboard. |
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Come fall, the fur industry breathlessly proclaims the return of fur. But while furriers strive desperately to make the public buy the lie, their own trade journals and sales figures show otherwise—fur is in a downward tailspin. The February 1998 Fur World reports, “The retail fur season is experiencing a poor season,” and the March 1998 edition of The Trapper & Predator Caller admits, “Late season selling has been a universal disappointment.” Desperate to boost their sagging sales figures, furriers now include fur trim, cuffs, or collars in their tally, as well as revenue from fur storage, which is sky-high since hardly anyone is taking them out. With your help, this year can be the industry’s worst ever!
Ask your librarian for permission to set up a library display about how animals suffer in the fur trade. |
Members of British Parliament locked themselves in this cage to urge the government to ban fur farms.
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Activists around the world stage “live” enactments of PETA’s ad featuring television’s most famous corpse, Twin Peaks’ Sheryl Lee, who told the world, “I wouldn’t be caught dead in fur.” |
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PETA members—“caught” in traps and wearing “bloody” fur coats—stage a graphic sidewalk protest. For help planning your protest, send for PETA’s fur action pack.
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 Wielding clubs and draped in animal skins, activists demonstrate outside London’s Natural History Museum during Fashion Week. |
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Merry elves camp outside Vogue editor Anna Wintour’s home with a giant greeting card urging her to stop pushing pelts. |
Their bodies painted like exotic leopards, PETA members carry a banner reading, “Only Animals Should Wear Fur,” through chilly Hong Kong! |
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