RePsycho Selling 'Vintage' Fur
Anti-Fur | 08.11.2010 22:22
'Retro Superstore' RePsycho is selling 'vintage' fur at its store on Gloucester Road, please contact and ask them to remove it from sale!
Many people might ask: "What's wrong with vintage fur? They're not supporting the fur industry, right?" The truth is that all real fur is second hand. It doesn't matter if the coat was made one year ago or fifty years ago, the fact is abundantly clear: an animal WAS murdered for its skin.
Animals are either farmed or trapped in the wild for their fur; there are currently approximately 50 million animals killed worldwide to satisfy a sick sense of fashion. On farms, sentient creaturesendure an agonising existance in cramped, bare, wire-mesh cages until they are gassed, anally electrocuted or have their throats slit and have their skins ripped from their bodies. Many animals are even skinned alive!
Wearing any fur garment, whatever the age of that garment perpetuates the idea that wearing fur is acceptable - for anyone with an ounce of compassion, that is blatantly not the case!
Real fur should always be worn first-hand - on the animal who was born with it!
Please contact RePsycho and ask them to remove all real fur from sale. Let them know that real fur is unacceptable, no matter how many hands it has passed through!
RePsycho
85 Gloucester Rd
Bishopston
Bristol
Avon
BS7 8AS
0117 983 0007
Many people might ask: "What's wrong with vintage fur? They're not supporting the fur industry, right?" The truth is that all real fur is second hand. It doesn't matter if the coat was made one year ago or fifty years ago, the fact is abundantly clear: an animal WAS murdered for its skin.
Animals are either farmed or trapped in the wild for their fur; there are currently approximately 50 million animals killed worldwide to satisfy a sick sense of fashion. On farms, sentient creaturesendure an agonising existance in cramped, bare, wire-mesh cages until they are gassed, anally electrocuted or have their throats slit and have their skins ripped from their bodies. Many animals are even skinned alive!
Wearing any fur garment, whatever the age of that garment perpetuates the idea that wearing fur is acceptable - for anyone with an ounce of compassion, that is blatantly not the case!
Real fur should always be worn first-hand - on the animal who was born with it!
Please contact RePsycho and ask them to remove all real fur from sale. Let them know that real fur is unacceptable, no matter how many hands it has passed through!
RePsycho
85 Gloucester Rd
Bishopston
Bristol
Avon
BS7 8AS
0117 983 0007
Anti-Fur
Original article on IMC Bristol:
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/698175