PETA to give away fur coats to the homeless
PETA will hand out dozens of fur coats to some of Minneapolis' neediest people on Thursday at the Marie Sandvik Center, a charitable organization that provides for the inner-city poor. How did PETA get into the fur "business"? One hundred percent of the coats given away at PETA's nationwide "fur kitchen" events were donated by people who are sickened by what happens to animals killed for fur. PETA's fur-coat donors include Mariah Carey, Kimberley Hefner, and Mary Tyler Moore.
Animals trapped for fur in the wild suffer excruciating pain - often for days - before they are bludgeoned or stomped to death by trappers. Animals raised on fur farms go insane from being confined to tiny, filthy cages, and they are exposed to all weather extremes. They are killed by being electrocuted, poisoned, or gassed or having their necks broken. In China - now the world's leading exporter of fur - an undercover investigation revealed that animals whose heads were slammed on the ground were still conscious as they were skinned alive.
"We can't bring these animals back," says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk, "but we can send a message that only people truly struggling to survive have any excuse for wearing fur." For more information, please visit PETA's Web site FurIsdead.com. (PETA Media Center)
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