PETA Members Armed With Gruesome Skinned 'Animals' to Protest bebe Fur Sales

Group Urges bebe: Ditch the Fur

For Immediate Release:
December 21, 2012

Contact:
Sophia Charchuk 202-483-7382

Scottsdale -- Holding the "bodies" of a skinned "fox" and a skinned "rabbit" and brandishing signs that read, "bebe: Ditch the Fur!" and "bebe Butchers Bunnies," PETA members will hold a spirited protest outside Scottsdale Fashion Square in Scottsdale on Saturday. Their point? That the fur trade is a violent, bloody industry that beats, drowns, and electrocutes animals before ripping the animals' skins from their backs.

When:   Saturday, December 22, 12 noon

Where:  Scottsdale Fashion Square, at the intersection of E. Camelback Road and Marshall Way, Scottsdale

"Every fur jacket or piece of fur trim came from animals who were tormented and painfully killed in the name of 'fashion,'" says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "If bebe doesn't want to be a target of caring consumers everywhere, the company should drop the fur."

Undercover investigations have revealed that rabbits on fur farms in China—one of the countries from which bebe obtains fur—are pulled out of cages by their ears and stunned with electrical devices while they scream. Another investigation of a Chinese fur farm shows a skinned raccoon dog on a heap of carcasses who lifts his bloodied head and stares into the camera.

PETA urges bebe to follow the lead of companies such as Ralph Lauren, J.Crew, Forever 21, Wet Seal, and many others and remove all fur from its shelves immediately. More than 80,000 people have taken action against bebe because of its use of fur.

For more information, please visit PETA.org.