Mook Vintage Selling Fur! Campaign Begins!
Animal Rights Cambridge | 11.12.2010 17:26 | Analysis | Animal Liberation | Social Struggles | Cambridge | World
Campaigners in Cambridge were recently alerted to the fact that Mook Vintage 2 King Street, Cambridge, CB1 1LN (Phone: 01223 316001) are selling fur. After a letter from the activists was ignored by the shop, a protest took place outside their premises on 10th December to coincide with International Animal Rights Day and mark the beginning of the campaign against Mook Vintage's sale of real animal fur.
The vintage fur trade is used to perpetuate the sale of items of new fur. Vintage fur helps to make the use and sale of fur 'acceptable' and allows designers the space to incorporate fur into their clothing. In fact some new fur is sold as 'vintage' via vintage stores.
Protesters maintain a presence outside the store for 5 hours educating shocked passers-by about Mook Vintages sale of fur items. The public response was very positive with lots of people stopping to show support, agreeing to contact the shop about the issue, offering donations and one gentleman even offered to get a cup of tea or coffee for an activist.
Many ethical vintage businesses nationwide have fur free policies and are rewarded by custom from aware consumers that only shop at fur free retailers. The campaign will continue until Mook Vintage make the right ethical and business choice and drop all fur from their store.
Please contact Mook Vintage on 01223 316001 and ask them to go fur free. If you are in the area please pop-in and speak to them: Mook Vintage 2 King Street, Cambridge, CB1 1LN
The vintage fur trade is used to perpetuate the sale of items of new fur. Vintage fur helps to make the use and sale of fur 'acceptable' and allows designers the space to incorporate fur into their clothing. In fact some new fur is sold as 'vintage' via vintage stores.
Protesters maintain a presence outside the store for 5 hours educating shocked passers-by about Mook Vintages sale of fur items. The public response was very positive with lots of people stopping to show support, agreeing to contact the shop about the issue, offering donations and one gentleman even offered to get a cup of tea or coffee for an activist.
Many ethical vintage businesses nationwide have fur free policies and are rewarded by custom from aware consumers that only shop at fur free retailers. The campaign will continue until Mook Vintage make the right ethical and business choice and drop all fur from their store.
Please contact Mook Vintage on 01223 316001 and ask them to go fur free. If you are in the area please pop-in and speak to them: Mook Vintage 2 King Street, Cambridge, CB1 1LN
Animal Rights Cambridge
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MOOK sell real fur?!
11.12.2010 17:58
Vintagegirl
SHAME ON MOOK!
11.12.2010 18:19
((A))
Mook Vintage facebook and twitter
11.12.2010 19:38
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Make up your mind, Brits: Revolution or train spotting!
11.12.2010 19:51
Fur! How dare they.
I consider writing a letter to my MP!
May I alert readers to the fact that I´m off to a friend after finishing these lines. Been invited to a nice juicy little rabit Catalan style.
Wash, brush with olive oil and salt the little fella.
place rabit in a Roman baking casserole (clay casserole) (which has been soaking up water for an hour)
place gloves of garlic, carrots, onions around little rabity rabit
place casserole in pre heated oven
bake for one hour at C 200
serve the rabit with chunky country potato fries
and, most importantly, alioli!
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First they came for the salad
Then they came for the hors d´euvre
Then they came for the main dish
Then for the desert
And when they had taken the coffee and brandy
Nothing was left on the table
me
@ me
13.12.2010 01:48
In any case fur in it's contemporary manifestation within the western fashion industry is a symbol of capitalist consumerism and repression of the poor. A homeless guy came by the protest to show support – he opposed animal cruelty and as he put it 'it's the rich who buy fur!'. Animal rights is a movement that actually really does have a working class support base and is revolutionary not with words but with actions.
Animal Rights Cambridge
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