(CN-HKG) PETA Fur Demo

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From PETA:

 

Hi Everyone,

 

As you all know by now, Hong Kong Fur and Fashion Week will take

place next week, 25-28 February. This event will include a showcase

of the pelts that are ripped from the bodies of animals who are born,

bred and killed for their fur.

 

Early this week, we sent out a news release about PETA Asia-Pacific's

new Web site, HKFurFair.com, which is our first Web site in

traditional Chinese. Prospective Fur and Fashion Week attendees who

visit the site in search of information about the event will be in

for a surprise. They will be confronted by video footage narrated by

American domestic diva Martha Stewart that shows how animals in China

(the world's leading producer of fur goods) are beaten to death or

skinned alive. The video footage also shows that dogs and cats are

crowded into tiny wire cages before they are killed for their skins.

 

Last year, a PETA investigation exposed appalling abuse in the

Chinese fur industry. It revealed that wire cages containing live

animals are thrown from the backs of lorries – breaking or crushing

the animals' limbs – and workers were caught beating animals and

poking them with sticks. These images – as well as footage of animals

who struggled desperately as their skin was peeled off – shocked the

world and led to a pledge by Sir Paul McCartney and Lady Heather

Mills McCartney to boycott China until this abuse is stopped.

 

You can help stop this barbarism.

 

We are looking for three or four volunteers to hold a protest at this

event. We will pay for all expenses and, if time permits, send you

any props you may need. Please consider sitting inside a cage at the

entrance to the event or dressing up in a mascot costume while

holding a sign. If you and your friends would like to coordinate this

demo with the help of other PETA activists, please let me know as

soon as possible so we can get started. We will also need a point-of-

contact person that I can work with directly over email and phone. We

will send out a news release to all Hong Kong news media the day

before the protest in order to draw attention to it.

 

We need to show the world that fur is dead and that we are willing to

do what it takes to stop the bloody murder of millions of innocent

fur-bearing animals.

 

To view the video footage, please visit HKFurFair.com.

 

We hope to hear from you soon.

 

Thank you for everything that you do for animals,

 

Rochelle Regodon

 

Campaigns Manager

 

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Asia-Pacific

 

Cell: +63 920-4974679