| Old Codger 2008-03-29, 1:25 pm |
| Tell Gucci to Stop Clubbing Baby Seals
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/gucci_seals
After hearing from supporters in Russia who have seen Gucci boots made
from seal fur for sale in that country, PETA is urging the Italian
fashion house to banish all fur from its collections. By selling seal
fur, Gucci is responsible for the horrors of the Canadian seal hunt
that have repeatedly been documented on video.
Despite a public outcry across the globe, hunters in Canada massacre
hundreds of thousands of seals every year in order to sell their skins
and rake in profits. Sealers bludgeon seals with clubs and "hakapiks"
(clubs with a metal hook on the end), drag conscious seals across ice
floes with boat hooks, and toss dead and dying animals into heaps,
leaving their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their
meat. Seals are also shot, but bludgeoning is preferred because pelt
buyers deduct money for each bullet hole in a seal's skin.
Please let Gucci know that whether it comes from clubbing baby seals,
electrocuting minks on fur farms, or crushing lynxes' legs in steel
traps, every fur item that Gucci sells represents unimaginable
suffering.
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Tell Gucci to Stop Clubbing Baby Seals
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