Sign up to our Fur Free Petition

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Factory farmed animals are forced to spend their lives in squalid cramped conditions and are killed by cruel methods that preserve the pelt, such as gassing, neck-breaking, and anal electrocution, and they may even be skinned alive.

Trapped animals may remain in a pain caught in a trap or snare for several days before starving or slowly strangling to death. If still alive when the trapper finally comes back, they will be beaten over the head, stamped to death or shot. Traps are indescriminate, meaning they catch the first animal step into them, which may not be the intended species.  Animals including birds, endangered species, and domestic dogs and cats have been found in traps. 

Retailers have many choices when it comes to what makes up their stock. Unfortunately, not all retailers have acknowledged that they directly contribute to a cruel and unnecessary industry when they sell fur.

Retailers must be aware that no fur garments are made compassionately.

Compassionate consumers like you can help by refusing to shop at stores that sell fur and by encouraging retailers to commit, in writing, to a no fur policy and thus be recognized by the international Fur Free Retailer program.

The Fur Free Retailer program is a project of the Fur Free Alliance - an international coalition of more than 30 animal protection organisations working to bring an end to the exploitation and killing of animals for their fur of which Respect for Animals is secretary.

Please join us in urging retailers to take a stand against fur in fashion. Please sign the petition.

The following have already signed up to the Fur Free Retailer programme:

American Apparel http://www.americanapparel.net/
Co-operative Group http://www.co-operative.coop/
Espirit
Filippa K http://www.filippa-k.com/
H&M http://www.hm.com/
Helly Hansen http://www.hellyhansen.com/
Jack Wolfskin
John Lewis http://www.johnlewis.com
MANGO
Marks & Spencer http://www.marksandspencer.com
Mavro Vintage http://www.mavrovintage.co.uk/
Polarn O. Pyret http://www.polarnopyret.se/Pages/FlashPresentationPage.aspx?id=339
Sainsbury’s http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/home.htm
Topshop http://www.topshop.com
Waitrose http://www.waitrose.com

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