Help Make Macy's, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom Fur Free

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Help Make Macy's, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom Fur Free

 

Source- Animal Protection Institute (apiforanimals.org)

 

 

 

Perhaps responding to industry hyperbole that " Fur Is Back! " , the Macy's

East, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom department stores continue to promote

animal cruelty by selling fur.

 

Nordstrom CEO Peter Nordstrom has indicated that he may consider pulling fur

from the stores if a majority of Nordstrom customers oppose the selling of

fur. He, Gerald Sampson, CEO of Neiman Marcus, and Harold Kahn, CEO of

Macy's, need to know the truth about the fur industry.

 

Please help flood these major department stores with polite letters, urging

them to stop selling furs. Write to:

 

Mr. Harold Kahn, CEO

Macy's East

151 W. 34th Street, 17th Floor

New York, NY 10021

 

Mr. Gerald Sampson, President/CEO

Neiman Marcus

1618 Main Street

Dallas, TX 75201

 

Mr. Peter Nordstrom, President/CEO

Nordstrom Department Stores

1501 5th Avenue

Seattle, WA 98101-1603

 

Be sure to mention in your letters that you shop in these stores and whether

you hold a current charge account. Here are other points you may want to

include in your letters:

 

Every year millions of bobcats, wolves, lynx, foxes, beavers, raccoons,

otters, coyotes, and other furbearing animals suffer excruciating pain and

brutal deaths in body-gripping and leghold traps to provide the " raw

materials " for fur garments.

More than 30 million additional animals are bred and raised in barren wire

cages, also victims of cruel fashion. Each of these animals dies a horrible

death, whether by bludgeoning, suffocation, electrocution or drowning.

The majority of Americans oppose the killing of animals for their fur.

According to a 1995 Associated Press poll, 59% of Americans believe it is

always wrong to kill an animal for its fur. In a 1996 Caravan Opinion poll,

74% of Americans believe leghold traps should be outlawed. A 1997 poll

conducted in California showed that 83% of voters oppose the killing of

animals for their fur, and on November 3, 1998, Californians passed a ballot

measure banning the sale of raw fur from animals caught in body-gripping

traps in state.

A survey conducted recently at " high-end " shopping centers in seven states

and Washington DC revealed that 86% of shoppers were " bothered " by the way

animals are killed for fur, and a majority said they would consider not

shopping at stores that sell it.

Many garment stores and a number of department stores have made the

enlightened decision to stop selling fur. Macy's, Neiman Marcus, and

Nordstrom should do the same. This cruelty has no excuse nor need to

continue.

 

Thank you for helping to end the senseless cruelty of the fur industry!

 

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