Canada Goose to Be Hit With Protests in Long Island on ‘Fur-Free Friday’
PETA and LION Will Descend on Garden City Mall on Black Friday to Rally Against Trapping Coyotes for Fur Jacket Lining
For Immediate Release:
November 27, 2019
Contact:
Megan Wiltsie 202-483-7382
Armed with posters proclaiming, “Canada Goose: Shameless Cruelty,” PETA and Long Island Orchestrating for Nature (LION) will descend on the Roosevelt Field mall—which carries Canada Goose jackets—outside Nordstrom on Fur-Free Friday (November 29), aka “Black Friday,” to urge Canada Goose to remove the coyote fur and goose down from its jackets. More protests will take place at Canada Goose locations around the world.
When: Friday, November 29, 12 noon
Where: Roosevelt Field, Main Entrance on Old Country Road, 630 Old Country Rd., Garden City
“Every fur-lined Canada Goose coat represents the suffering of coyotes whose legs were caught in painful steel traps and who were violently killed,” says PETA Director of Campaigns Danielle Katz. “PETA is calling on consumers to send Canada Goose a clear message that in the season of peace on Earth, it must decide to go fur- and down-free.”
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear”—points out that trapped coyote mothers desperate to get back to their starving pups have been known to try to chew off their own legs to escape and that many trapped animals can succumb to the elements, blood loss, infection, or attacks by predators before trappers return to kill them. Ducks and geese used for down are shipped in all weather extremes to slaughterhouses, where they’re hung upside down and stunned and their throats are slit––often while they’re still conscious––before their bodies are dunked into defeathering tanks.
Following a PETA complaint and subsequent Federal Trade Commission investigation, Canada Goose has stopped claiming that its standards ensure that its suppliers don’t abuse animals.
PETA opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.
