PETA to protest J.Crew fur sales on 'Fur-Free Friday'
24 Nov '05
2 min read
PETA members will hold a "die-in" outside a Norfolk J.Crew store on Friday with their nearly nude bodies covered in "blood" to represent animals who are literally skinned alive for their fur, to protest the company's decision to sell fur this year for the first time, after telling PETA that it would remain fur-free:
Date: Friday, November 25 Time: 12 noon Place: Entrance to MacArthur Center at East Freemason Street and Monticello Avenue
PETA is targeting J.Crew because the company sources its fur from China, where not a single law protects animals on fur farms.
PETA's most recent investigation found that millions of dogs and cats in China are bludgeoned, hanged, bled to death, and strangled with wire nooses for their fur.
This fur is often deliberately mislabeled as fur from other species and is exported to the United States to be sold to unsuspecting customers in retail stores.
Millions of foxes, raccoons, rabbits, and other animals are also raised for fur every year in China.
PETA has obtained undercover video footage that shows fur farmers in China swinging raccoon dogs and foxes by their hind legs and smashing their heads into the ground—breaking the animals' necks or backs but leaving them panting, blinking, and conscious as they are skinned alive.
J.Crew has refused to follow the example of top fashion retailers such as Gap Inc, Banana Republic, H&M, and others that have recognized their customers' disgust at fur by not selling it in their stores.
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