Saturday, August 11, 2012

You know you’re going wrong when fashion trends transform your wardrobe from being cool to terribly cruel...

Larger animals have clamps or a rod applied to their mouths while rods are inserted into their anuses, and they are painfully electrocuted. Gassing, decompression chambers, and neck-snapping are other common fur-farm slaughter methods. A video shows raccoon dogs in China – where most of the world’s fur comes from – being hit in the face with metal pipes, picked up and slammed hard on the ground, skinned alive and thrown in a bloody pile, still alive. One dog in the video lifts her skinned head and blinks her eyelashes at the camera as if to say, ‘why?’

In India, the leather industry plays an important role in the economy, and while leather leggings thankfully haven’t yet made their way to this side of the globe, wallets, belts, shoes etc, are made out of leather. While most Indians are proud of this industry’s growth, its methods of operating are shameful. “Cows, sheep and other animals are crammed into trucks in such high numbers on their way to slaughter that their bones snap, they get trampled, suffocate or die en route. At the slaughterhouse, all of these animals have their throats slit in full view of their companions,” reveals Poorva. While style icons like Madonna will continue to wear fur, other more responsible and compassionate celebrities like Michelle Obama and Charlize Theron are a better example for those eager to stay in step with fashion. And if you must have the fur, opt for faux fur, and so ensure that at least you have no blood on your hands.


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