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Posted: August 19, 2008

By Bob Unruh

 

WorldNetDaily

Editor's Note: The descriptions and video of China's fur industry in this

story will be disturbing to some readers.

 

The newest controversy over exports from China has caused nightmares for

researchers documenting the abuse inflicted on animals bred and raised in

tiny cages and then skinned alive for their fur.

 

WND has reported multiple times on problems with exports from China.

 

Now comes word from an extended investigation into the fur trade that China

is estimated to produce approximately 85 percent of the world's fur products

– and it has virtually no regulations or rules for the treatment of the

animals.

 

According to Mark Rissi, a spokesman for Swiss Animal

<http://www.animal-protection.net/furtrade/chinafur.html> Protection, which

has documented abuse of animals raised for their fur as early as 1983, the

China project has been going on for several years.

 

The organization's report <http://www.animal-protection.net> has been made

available online, with dramatic images and descriptions that researchers

found more than disturbing.

 

" As animals are considered objects in China, there is little or no awareness

for the suffering of these sentient beings, " Rissi told WND from his

European base of operations via e-mail. " The cruelty found was beyond our

expectations, and it was hard to document without interfering. It caused

nightmares to the team, especially in the editing room, because the scenes

had to be replayed and replayed to be edited from six hours down to 20

minutes. "

 

Rissi said the actual onsite investigation was done by his organization's

staff members as well as trusted Asian animal protection supporters, but as

fur production was not a controversial subject, " people willingly showed

their farms to the team. "

 

He said he's glad other organizations, such as the U.S.-based People for the

Ethical Treatment of Animals, have joined in his group's campaign.

 

" Our main goal was to get this distributed because we want consumers

worldwide to be aware about the cruelty involved in the fur fashion, " he

said.

 

" People have a right to know that a huge percentage of fur is imported from

China, which doesn't have any federal laws protecting animals on fur farms.

People who might contribute to this atrocity by purchasing fur or

fur-trimmed garments need to know about the horrible suffering of the

animals who wore that skin first, " PETA spokeswoman Melissa Karpel told WND.

 

" We want them to see how fur farmers slam terrified animals — including

raccoon pups — on the ground and skin them while they're still conscious.

People need to know what they're really buying when they buy fur or fur

trim, " she said.

 

" Conditions on Chinese fur farms make a mockery of the most elementary

animal welfare standards, " the Swiss report said. " This report shows that

China's colossal fur industry routinely subjects animals to housing,

husbandry, transport and slaughter practices that are unacceptable from a

veterinary, animal welfare and moral point of view. "

 

PETA has posted a Swiss Animal Protection video on its U.S. site,

documenting the bloody violence prevalent in the Chinese fur industry.

 

The report contained the testimony from witnesses to a dog slaughter:

 

Once pulled out from its cage, the raccoon dog curls up into a ball in

mid-air. … One woman in a headscarf is first to grab hold of the raccoon

dog's tail and the others drift away peevishly. The woman in the headscarf

swings the animal upwards. It forms an arc in the air and is then slammed

heavily to the ground, throwing up a cloud of dust. The raccoon dog tries to

stand up, its paws scrabbling in the grit. The wooden club in the woman's

hand swings down onto its forehead. The woman picks up the animal and walks

toward the other side of the road, throwing it onto a pile of other raccoon

dogs. A stream of blood trickles from its muzzle, but its eyes are open and

it continues to repeatedly blink, move its paws, raise its head and collapse

to the ground. Beside it lies another raccoon dog. Its four limbs have been

hacked off but still it continues to yelp.

 

The report then graphically describes how the dogs are skinned, sometimes

while they are living.

 

Rissi noted that the Humane Society of the United States also has worked on

the investigation, citing well-known U.S. companies, including J.C. Penney,

Burlington Coat Factory, Bloomingdale's, Sak's Fifth Avenue and Macy's, for

selling Chinese-produced fur products, sometimes labeling them as " faux fur "

or raccoon when the actual product is from a raccoon dog.

 

The Swiss Animal Protection report said slaughter methods range from

beatings with a metal or wooden stick or swinging the animal until it slams

to the ground.

 

Then they are skinned.

 

" They struggle and try to fight back to the very end. Even after their skin

has been stripped off breathing, heart beat, directional body and eyelid

movements were evident for five to 10 minutes, " the report said.

 

The process is repeated millions of times, as China processes up to 100,000

pelts in a day at times.

 

The Swiss organization said China should pass a national animal welfare law,

prohibit skinning live animals, prohibit inhumane treatment and slaughter

methods, and the rest of the world should shun the use of fur.

 

Swiss Animal Protection is the umbrella organization of 58 regional animal

protection associations in Switzerland and the Principality of

Liechtenstein. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and biggest animal

protection organization operating throughout Switzerland.