Members and friends of Against Animal Cruelty Tasmania will be holding a catwalk parade with a difference in the Launceston City Mall, Brisbane Street, at noon last Friday, to celebrate INTERNATIONAL FUR FREE FRIDAY.
The event is part of an International Day of Action by animal advocates world wide to highlight the extreme cruelty of the fur ‘industry’. Most of the world’s fur comes from China, where millions of animals, including cats and dogs, are subjected to horrific torture and where there is no ‘truth in labelling’ laws. These animals are often skinned alive, crushed under foot, poisoned or anally electrocuted after a life of misery and deprivation in a tiny filthy cage.
In the wild, in countries including Australia, animals are trapped, poisoned and shot in their millions for their fur and their young are slaughtered as ‘collateral damage’.
AACT spokesperson Neon Lang explains: ‘This brutal industry is about just one thing – a barbaric and outdated ‘fashion’. People should be comfortable wearing their own skin, and let animals keep theirs. This event is about giving people ways to help and raising awareness in the community – that animals have endured short lives of wretched misery and died terrible deaths for that fur coat or fur trimmed souvenir.”
If you wear fur, you have blood on your hands!
