Voice for Change:CAUSE

The Bitter Truth:Millions of domestic dogs and cats, also rabbits, foxes, coyotes, mink, raccoons and other species are suffering unconscionable treatment and agonizing death in Asia. This is a region where most animals mean nothing more than a growing economy from their ‘meat’ and ‘fur’, and unfortunately millions of dogs and cats are treated the same way. 

World wide fur production is outsourced to China because of their low labor costs and there are no animal welfare laws for cats, dogs and captive wild animals there. These animals' fur is shipped world wide, unmarked and mislabeled; it’s even being sold as 'fake fur' or 'fun fur'. China is the largest fur distributor in the world.

Stores across the world are selling mislabeled fur from these dogs, cats, rabbits and other animals in China. China supplies more than half of the finished fur garments imported for sale in the United States alone. Current fur products on store shelves are from these same animals and range from purses to key chain accessories to collar accents to coats and more.

Dogs and cats for example, are being crushed into barbed wire cages for transport to slaughter; forced to lay on each other for days with no food or water. They are being removed with tongs, then stabbed in the groin, bludgeoned or bled to death. These animals are crying out in pain while being skinned as others are forced to watch and listen to their fate. Videotape, photographs and witnesses reveal some animals continue to live after their skin has been stripped. Their bodies thrown onto a heap of the dead and dying. Footage taken by undercover investigators touring fur farms in China reveal why outsiders are banned from visiting. 

Thousands of pet cats in Beijing were sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounted an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the Olympic Games. The round-up was particularly intense in areas around Olympic venues and in streets and alleys surrounding five-star hotels where guests stayed during the summer games. The crackdown on cats is seen by animal campaigners as just one of a number of extreme measures being taken by government leaders to ensure that its capital appeared clean, green and welcoming during the Olympics.

As stated by the National District Attorneys Association, “Animal cruelty can be linked to the vast majority of serial killers, many habitual violent offenders, and most children and teens who kill.”

This barbaric treatment of animals goes against every rule of humanity. Gandhi said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals."

Please take action to stop this atrocity. It will only take a few minutes of your time, yet those few minutes could help to stop horrific cruelty and save millions of lives.

Stop the suffering and save lives. Be a voice for change.

TAKE ACTION ACTIVITES/ LINKS:

Listen to "Tails of Asia:

Invite your friends to this group!

Sign Petition for World Wide Animal Welfare

10 million signatures are needed to let the governments of the world know we are serious about achieving a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare at the United Nations. This global campaign is led by The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA)

http://www.wspa-usa.org/pages/1706_animals_matter.cfm?redirect=yes

Send an automated email to ask your U.S. Representative to support & co-sponsor the Dog and Cat Fur Prohibition Enforcement Act.

https://community.hsus.org/campaign/FED_2007_fur_labeling

Call your US Representatives

https://community.hsus.org/humane/leg-lookup/search.html

Sign the Fur Free Pledge

https://community.hsus.org/campaign/furfreepledge

Locate the Chinese Embassies in your area and write them a letter

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/embassy/embassy_list.htm

http://www.petitiononline.com/FauxFur/

Start using alternatives to Chinese goods

http://edinburghfurfreecity.co.uk/boycottchina/index.php

Be a Conscious Consumer

http://www.newdream.org/consumer/

Make copies of petitions and hand them out as flyers.

Print copies of leaflets, (see below) and hand them out when you see people buying or wearing fur.

Spread the word by posting petitions on websites, blogs and mailing lists!

Write department stores about discontinuing the sale of all fur in their stores.

Tell pet supply stores that sell real fur pet toys about the dog and cat fur trade and ask them to take the fur products off the shelves.

Write editors of fashion magazines that promote fur apparel and tell them about the dog and cat fur trade -ask them to stop printing the fur product ads.

SOCIAL COMMUNITIES

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-21039901-details/Boycott+China%2C+urges+Sir+Paul/article.do;jsessi

http://www.hsus.org/furfree/cruel_reality/the_cruel_reality_of_fur.html

In Defense of Animals Leaflet regarding China’s Fur Trade:

http://www.idausa.org/shop-ida/pdfs/lit-fur_lflt1.pdf

HSUS List of Stores & Designers Marketing Mislabeled Fur:

http://www.hsus.org/web-files/PDF/Fur-Test-Results-Public-Factsheet-25-results-FINAL.pdf

Animal Freedom Korea
This organization is working on an amendment to animal
protection laws toward stopping the use of dog meat, etc.
http://www.animalkorea.org/