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Forum Index > News & Politics > Animal Rights | >> China Animals Skinned Alive For Fur! | | |
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bbqcarrots
Über-Meister 1868 points


27/M/Dallas, Texas Join Date: Apr 2008 | I'm with knowledgeispower. Kill the animal first, and do it as quickly and painlessly as possible. And find some use(s) for the rest of the carcass.
I don't object to real fur in and of itself, but I do object to poor living conditions and waste of resources. How much meat is on those? Could they be used for dog food? Bones ground up to make fertilizer? I know each one may be rather small, but considering how many animals it takes to make a single mink/ermine/rabbit coat, eventually it'll add up.
Quote: How many of you use glue traps for mice?
I hope no one doesn't... because they essentially do the same thing. Skin the animal alive because it's trying so hard to get off the super glue that it rips itself to pieces.
Yet this trap is a popular method in the US, and even perhaps in some European countries too. Where is the outcry on that? Or it it because "they're just mice" so it's OK to torture them? I don't agree with what China is doing, it is a sick and disgusting act. But some people are awfully hypocritical when they slam China's fur industry yet advocate possibly the worst trap commercially available.
Some people even throw the mouse or rat, with its injures and STILL ALIVE, into the bin to starve. An even more painful death - and the instructions on these traps actually say to do this. It is pathetic that we can put so much pressure on another country to cease barbaric acts when such acts are happening in our very own backyards, thumbs twiddling and pretending nothing bad is happening.
At home, we use snap traps. But I had an experience a few months back involving these glue traps. Had some mice that had to be caught and nothing but glue traps around. It was a home with a lot of children, so maybe they thought it would be easier to free a child from the glue that worry about a broken finger from a snap trap? caught 3 mice on 1 strip. This kid with cowboy boots stomped on their heads to crush them and put them out of their misery. I wasn't around for all that, but I did have to dispose of them because no one else had a stomach strong enough.
ETA: I know points are totally random, but it's annoying when a post as long as this one doesn't get anything.
 Goose says I have FP.
Not-so-innocent church boy at your service! | | | Edited: May 09, 2008 @ 17:45 | |
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mattyc
Über-Commander 137 points


23/M/Melbourne, Australia Join Date: Jan 2008 | knowledgeispower said: We used to use glue traps and caught the mice but I felt that tossing them in the garbage wasn't right so I just put them out of their misery without peeling them off. Now, we just use snap traps. I have a very strong stomach so it doesn't bother me at all.
Why would you toss them out in the garbage without killing them in the first place?
They are so WRONG. | | |
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aaronc
Recruit 11 points


13/M/Chch, New Zealand Join Date: Aug 2008 | This is still happening people.
Heres a starter, at least. Google up Chinese fur suppliers, and you'll get a stack of links. goto a site, and email every supplier with either a message of disgust, or trick them into downloading a video or image of the horror by saying: Oh I really like this product- can you get it? and they should at least look. I would say the people who read the emails dont skin the animals, -I know its feeble, but what else is there to do?
And spread the word, email your olympic team if you can, email your government representitives, just do anything you can possibly think of, and dont give up, because we are not alone, and giving up is not an option.
AaronC
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