The Phillippines is also a source of cat fur. The ABC video showed a fur operation there. In a cage that had been full of cats, the last two terrified-looking cats were clinging to one another as workers took them out one by one and strangled them in front of the other cats. These cats knew what their fate was. The film was shown over a year ago but it's all coming back now. I wrote a letter to the Phillippine embassy; someone there wrote back denying it was happening and indignantly demanded to know the address of the factory. The video had only said this was happening in the Phillippines but I hope they got plenty of other letters.
I think the Burlington Coat factory was one chain mentioned that was selling dog and cat fur trimmed coats. A lot of the coat labels had names of made-up animals like "Russian ard-wolf". Many people don't want to hear about the horrible things animals go through; they think nothing can be done but we have to keep bringing it up - it only takes a few dedicated people to start changes in the way we think and do things...it always has, as someone once said. Bonnie in WI ----- Original Message ----- From: Kerry MacKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, October 30, 2005 4:33 pm Subject: Re: Chinese cat and dog fur > Isn't it odd how people talk about someone behaving "like an > animal" when > they behave in a particulary nasty way. > No animal is capable of the horrors perpetrated by humans. > I would like to see a huge campaign mounted to encourage a boycott of > Chinese goods until they shape up. Since half the stuff we buy > these days > seems to come from China it would have to give them pause. > On the other hand there probably isn't a single country in the > world that > treats animals with respect. > I like to think that one day people will look back at the way we > behavetowards animals as they look at slavery today---and wonder > how we could > possibly have thought it was ok to use, abuse, eat and wear them. > Kerry
