A 30-second TV ad-which make women who wear fur look even more ridiculous than they already do-will come to life in Nanticoke on Friday, when a local activist will don a full-length fur coat and engage in behavior normally associated with those who naturally wear fur-animals.
Other activists will wave signs that read, "Only Animals Should Wear Fur!" Their point is that while some may find this behavior disgusting, it is much less disgusting than slaughtering the original fur owners in order to steal their skins-including the animals shown on videotape being bludgeoned and skinned alive during a recent undercover investigation of fur farms in China.
Date: Friday, November 24 Time: 12 noon-2 p.m. Place: RK Furs, 1 West Kimar St., Nanticoke Re-enacting "The Toilet Drinker," a fur-clad woman on all fours will mimic what some family dogs have been doing for years.
The skits remind us that there are some things that only animals should get away with-and wearing fur is one of them. Thirty-one million animals are raised and killed on fur ranches annually.
Animals are electrocuted, injected with poisons or are smothered to death. Undercover footage also shows animals asphyxiated with weed killers, causing the animal to convulse for as long as 10 minutes.
Neck-breaking is a common form of rendering an animal motionless, yet may leave the animal fully conscious while being skinned alive.
"If people want to pretend to be animalsby dressing in their skins, we think they should really go for the whole look, including drinking out of the toilet," says local activist, Veronica Van Hof.
"There's nothing sophisticated about wearing the stolen coats of animals who were skinned alive." Photos and broadcast-quality video footage of the investigation will be available at the demonstration.
Pennsylvania Animal Rights Advocates (PARA)
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