Vintage Warehouse adopt a fur free policy during protest

Campaign for a fur free Nottingham | 16.02.2010 14:39 | Animal Liberation

Vintage Warehouse are now the fourth shop to adopt a fur free polcy with the campaign for a fur free Nottingham this winter.

Protesters celebrate as Vintage Warehouse adopts No Fur Pledge

window stickers available by e mailing furfreenotts@live.co.uk

the group will be stepping up their campaign with cache

During a demonstration with Vintage Warehouse the manager came out to inform the protesters that they have now adopted a fur free policy.

This is the fourth shop to take on this policy with the group after Kitsch, Baklash and Cow all taking on fur free policies with 'Cow' even having a meeting with their head office discussing the possibility of a fur free policy in their Manchester, Birmingham and Sheffield stores after the protest in Nottingham.

The group will now be stepping up their campaign with Cashe (a children's designer clothes store that unfortunately still sell real fur) now that Vintage Warehouse have taken on this policy.

Cashe in the past have had demonstrations outside their store and have even agreed to sign a fur free pledge with the group, but when protesters met with the manager again she told them she had changed her mind and will take all the fur off the shop floor, but will still sell it on their website or will sell it to customers if they come in and ask for it.

Members of the Campaign for a Fur-Free Nottingham believe that the store obviously still want to make money off the cruel fur trade but do not want the bad publicity that goes along with it. In a recent protest at the store at which an Evening Post photographer was present, protesters noticed that some items of real fur had made their way to the shop floor, but were quickly removed during the protest.

The group was recently approached by the manager of Past and Present, a vintage clothes shop in Nottingham, asking did the group have a display sticker he could put in the window of his store as he never had and never will sell real fur, but understands the importance of vintage shops also taking a stance against fur given, the impact that 'vintage' fashion has had in helping fur make its way back into the market.

Window stickers are now available from the group by simply asking via our email address.

The next demonstration will be at Cashe at 12.30 on Friday 19th February. (42 Pelham Street, Nottingham, NG1 2EG)

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window sticker

03.02.2010 15:13

here is an image of the window sticker stores can order from us by e mailing

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ummmm

03.02.2010 15:41

What's wrong with selling it if it's secondhand?

vegan

@ Vegan

03.02.2010 16:21

Fair point. I guess one possible response is that it perpetuates a culture where fur is fashionable. And continues that state of affairs where wearing fur is normalised. I've never worn fur, but perhaps it is akin to meat (to a lesser extent), so wearing it desenstises one to the atrocity and cruelty that lies at the back of the making of it.

Reply to vegan

03.02.2010 17:30

The problem is that vintage fashion has had a huge impact on mainstream fashion with designers even making clothes look older, this has had a massive impact on people thinking fur is acceptable again! Fortunately the majority of people are still against fur but the fact is fur is back! And the vintage clothing trade has had alot to do with that it Isnt the only factor but a big one, the fact is fur farming was made illegal in the uk because of the cruelty involved so it shouldn't be sold in any form!

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Reply to vegan 2

03.02.2010 17:36

And also like the other comment has mentioned, anything that promotes or glamourises real fur is wrong and dangerous, alot of people campaigned for a long time to get fur farming banned here and make it socially unacceptable, it doesnt matter if the animal died two days ago or twenty years ago! The animal was kept and murdered thru horrific methods! And profiting off that death or promoting that the skin of a tortured and murdered animal is wrong! 2nd or 1st hand!

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Still doesn't make sense

03.02.2010 18:30

So by this token fake fur is wrong too. And what about the fake leather boots I own - should I burn them for glamorising leather and making it acceptable to wear? The local health food shops sell 'sausages', soya 'milk', 'cheese' and marge - should I be picketing them?

This is why as a vegan and an anarchist I want nothing to do with AR groups, there's no sense of perspective.

vegan

Second hand fur

03.02.2010 19:14

It's important to target second hand fur shops to make the wearing of all real fur socially unacceptable. The people selling the second hand fur are profitting from the death of hundreds of animals, this too should be socially unacceptable.

There are some who believe that buying fake fur is promoting the wearing of real fur. We're not all going to agree on that one. However I do believe that it's better to campaign to stop the selling of real fur in the UK than do nothing at all.

Helen

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03.02.2010 20:13

I would like to second the remarks of 'vegan' above. This was ridiculous. Are you lot going to be going after Holland and Barrett for selling fake sausages and vegan burgers?
And folk wonder why AR activists get called nutters.

miserablist
Homepage: http://miserablist.tk

come off it vegan

03.02.2010 20:37

Thats such a crude analogy, people are more than capable of making a distinction between the aesthetics of fake fur and the ethical issues surrounding real fur. It's also a problem entirely concocted by yourself because no one has advocated it here.

anon

@ miserablist

03.02.2010 21:44

Bad analogy - mainstream shops don't look at the rising popularity of veggie sausages and so increase stock of real meat. Whereas clothing shops DO look at the rising popularity of vintage fur and therefore buy in real fur to buck the trend. Veggie sausages don't have a positive impact on the meat trade, but vintage fur does help to increase demand for real fur.

?

03.02.2010 22:52

To vegan: Yes you should burn your leather boots just like we burn lampshades made from the skin of human holocaust victims, unless you think glamorising holocausts is a good idea, or that discriminating against another species is an acceptable form of oppression?

Furthermore, why would you picket a place for specifically selling vegan food??? Are you feeling ok?! You're quite clearly getting mixed up with the stereotypes of sausages being from meat, milk coming from breasts and cheese/marge coming from dairy; similar to the stereotype of a 'real meal' centering around dead animals. Stereotypes are the basis of ignorance and discrmination, as an anarchist I would of thought you'd work that out by now.

This is why AR groups want nothing to do with you, you have no sense of perspective.

Answer

04.02.2010 08:47

Most vegans would see the wearing or selling of any fur (second hand or otherwise) as a disgusting act, in the same way wearing a human skin would be unnaceptable, even if you bought it at a vintage store.

Real vegan

No place for real fur except on animals

04.02.2010 10:03

How can you compare veggie sausages to real fur? Surely pretend meats are a comparison to fake fur not second hand fur! Fake fur has its place because no suffering was involved to make it! Vintage fur still has to have been ripped off a tortured animal at sometime or other it doesnt matter when! It was the skin and fur of a beautiful animal its not for people to wear and think it looks good! How could you feel good about wearing a product like that anyway?

Livewire

Well done

04.02.2010 13:30

Well done guys thats great news it means I can shop there now :-) keep up the fantastic work

keep to the facts @

04.02.2010 15:41

positive result,well done! By the way @, the skin lampshade thing was debunked years ago as allied propaganda as was the soap nonsense, please keep comparisans to facts rather than regurgitating silly inflammetary history myths - thankyou.

jamie

yeah....

16.02.2010 16:31

At risk of stirring things up again, I have always found the fake meat, milk and cheese thing a bit stupid. Having given up these things, why would I then want to eat fake versions? Especially when they are made to “taste like” real meat etc. It’s not like there is a lack of food to choose from!
As for the action, well done!

a radical fool

I guess that depends..

16.02.2010 18:23

...on whether you became a vegan because you did not like the TASTE of meat/milk/cheese etc or because you're against the torture involved in producing these products.

vegan3

Holocaust happened100%,lampshades didnt, vivisection by Bayer on kid did happen

18.02.2010 01:00

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/skin.html , not a great website, but is linked to evidence of skin tanning.
Some soap of holocause victims was made but not on a mass scale. The victims were travellers, disabled, jews, anarchists & communists.

Vivisection on kids without anaesthetic by Nazi doctors Like Dr Mengele on the request of IG Farben owned by Bayer & BASF did happen 100%. What is even more shocking is that the "good" methodist & "philanrophst" John D Rockefeller merged standard oil now Exxon with IG Farben in 1941.
Nuremberg Trial Judges wanted to felt IG Farben executives were as guilty if not more than leading Nazis but they were given vvlight sentences & many resumed high ranking positions after the war!!!

http://www.mega.nu/ampp/bayer.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben

http://www.gmwatch.org/gm-firms/11153-bayer-a-history

Iam a veggie for environmental reasons& sustainability reasons, though I do not condemn all low impact hunter gatherers without access to synthetic materials or decent looms.
AR people are mostly calm& considered people,I have not brought animal skins except shoes when Ive had to. Ive worn a leather bomber jacket Ive had 20 yrs occasionally at activist centres in Nottingham & not had any problems.
I understand the tactics behind this& I support it, not as a animal rights activist, but as a universal rights activist.
Dont get petty,Nottm AR people arent, their a good laugh, every cause every group everywhere has afew people who go too far & the media are on a witch hunt against "AR" activists.

Univeral rights activist

photographer

13.03.2010 12:29

hi i was wondering if you had the name of the person who has taken the nottingham protest images as i am writing about fur for an essay and i need the name for my bibliography. thank you

jennifer Mills
mail e-mail: jez_1st@hotmail.com