The true brutal truth in the pet industries of the fur industry

With luxury fashion followers, owning the costumes, accessories from fur is too common. But behind that was the bare truth to the cruel industry of furry animals.

Knowing that fashion from animal fur has a hard beauty to resist, but the naked truth behind it makes people shudder.

Such tragic images of foxes in Finnish animal feedstocks are an example. He is fat and fat, weighing up to 19kg - nearly 6 times the weight of a wild animal. This cruel way of breeding is to increase the area of ​​the animal's skin, thereby increasing the amount of fur it gets on its body. But in return is the extreme pain of that poor creature.

For years, animal protectors have struggled and called for a lot to fight the fur industry. According to statistics from PETA (Animal Protection Organization), 85% of fur used for fashion comes from animal feed factories.

These "hatcheries" can hold thousands and tens of thousands of animals, designed to maximize profits, exploiting the utmost pitiful creatures.

85% of fur used for fashion comes from animal feed factories.

Life inside the factories - painful and short

The animals that are raised most often are ferrets and foxes. There are also squirrels, bobbins, rabbits, even hamsters.

Excerpt from PETA data, 58% of mink farms are present in Europe, 10% in North America, the rest are scattered across the globe, such as Argentina, China, Russia .

At the factory, females are allowed to mate once a year. Each birth will have about 3-4 babies / mother, and all will be killed within 6 months (only young mink fur is used for fashion industry).

For mothers, they are locked up in tiny pens, living in fear, stress, suffering from diseases, parasites . After all, they only last about 4 times longer than their children. - 5 years.

The animals that are raised most often are ferrets and foxes.

For rabbits, the story is even more terrible. In the past, millions of rabbits were killed each year for meat. However, since taking advantage of the feathers, the rabbits were fattened up, but at the same time the time was short, only 12 weeks.

According to UN data, there are now more than 1 billion rabbits killed each year for feathers - mainly used for clothing and some fashion accessories. But not only that, PETA's Asia surveys also show their miserable lives: crammed together in a tight, dirty environment, and even skinned while still alive.

Just because a word "money"

The cause for such abuse comes from a word "money" . Slaughterhouses wanted to cut costs, and they locked many animals in a tiny cage.

The cramped environment greatly affects animals such as foxes and foxes, when they can control an area of ​​thousands of acres. They become tense, excited, often bite, even eat each other (excerpt from Oxford University research).

Minks are skinned.

In addition, as mentioned above, the method of killing animals is also very controversial. In order to ensure good quality of feathers, the owners can use all-skinning methods, but at the same time make the poor creatures extremely miserable.

One of the methods used is confining in a very large box, and discharging it into the exhaust from the truck.

This type of gas is certainly very poisonous, but it is unlikely to be strong enough to cause death, so many animal cases have been skinned while still awake.

The corpses of the skin animals were piled up.

Larger animals are even wired in both the mouth and anus, and then the current flows through . This method is considered extremely cruel, because although it can cause animals to die quickly, but "animals can remain conscious within 10-30 seconds" - according to the American Veterinary Association. That is, they are forced to feel their bodies die slowly, while they are fully aware of it?

In addition, poisoning, numbness, neck breaking . are also popular ways.

Great impact on the environment

One of the biggest harms of the fur industry is environmental destruction. According to statistics, the amount of energy needed to produce a fur coat is 20 times higher than a faux leather jacket.

In order for the fur to not decompose, people must use some chemicals, and these chemicals have a great risk of causing environmental pollution if leaked.

One of the biggest harms of the fur industry is environmental destruction.

Not to mention, each ferret used in the fur industry produces at least 20kg of manure. Multiplying with the total number of ferrets in the US in 2014 was 3.76 million, the figure fell to about 10,000 tons - enough to have a major impact on the ecosystem in an area.

What should we do?

No one forbids you to use fur products, but it is important to understand that doing so indirectly supports this cruel animal industry.

So what to do? This completely depends on you!