PETA, Liberation BC Team Up to Bring Message of Compassion for Animals to Holiday Shoppers

Vancouver, B.C. -- Crouching in a cage, wearing donated fur coats drenched in fake blood, and holding signs reading, "Fur: No Skin Off Your Back" and "Fur: There’s No Excuse," four members of Liberation BC and PETA will protest in front of furry retailer Bebe in Vancouver on Thursday. Their point? To urge holiday shoppers to cross fur off their shopping lists and allow animals to share in the comfort and joy of the season.

Date:   Thursday, December 14
Time:   12:30 p.m.
Place:   Bebe, 1000 Robson St. (at Burrard)

Why are PETA and Liberation BC going to such great lengths to bash Bebe? Animals trapped for fur often languish in agony for days before they are drowned or bludgeoned to death. On fur farms, millions of foxes, minks, and other fur-bearing animals are confined to tiny, filthy cages, where stress often causes them to go insane before they are killed by gassing, poisoning, anal electrocution, or neck-breaking. An undercover investigation of a fur farm in China—the world’s leading fur producer—revealed that workers were slamming animals’ heads against the ground, leaving them panting, blinking, and conscious as they were skinned alive. Each year, millions of cats and dogs in China are strangled or bled to death; their fur is often deliberately mislabelled as fur from other species.

For more information, please visit FurIsDead.com.