After a year-long campaign against their involvement in the fur trade, fashion retailers Selfridges have declared that they have stopped selling fur in their stores.
On the 19th May, Selfridges confirmed that they have now stopped selling all real fur. A year long campaign saw the various Selfridges stores being picketed, a concerted customer complaints campaign, and associated actions. This is another in a long line of victories for grassroots activists against the fur trade and a great blow to the attempts by their barbaric industry to make the wearing of fur fashionable again.
Here is a transcript of Selfridges' policy:
17 May 2005
CHANGE TO FUR POLICY
BACKGROUND
Selfridges has reviewed its policy on fur and will no longer be selling any fur products in its stores. This will come into force with immediate effect.
This policy revision was made after taking into account customer feedback and a decline in demand for fur related products.
The official statement for the revised policy is as follows:
Selfridges Fur Policy
"Selfridges does not sell fur in any of its stores."
Here is a transcript of Selfridges' policy:
17 May 2005
CHANGE TO FUR POLICY
BACKGROUND
Selfridges has reviewed its policy on fur and will no longer be selling any fur products in its stores. This will come into force with immediate effect.
This policy revision was made after taking into account customer feedback and a decline in demand for fur related products.
The official statement for the revised policy is as follows:
Selfridges Fur Policy
"Selfridges does not sell fur in any of its stores."
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I've always thought it strange
21.05.2005 08:51
jan
Well done CAFT & Selfridges
21.05.2005 09:06
And congratulations to Selfridges also, even if, as many will say it was only because it was hurting their profits. Compare their approach with EDO who, faced with equally legitimate protest hire slimy lawyers to seek injunctions to ban protests that alert staff and locals to their evil business.
mini mouse
clarification
21.05.2005 11:54
However, the reason people don't go around protesting against that particular thing, is that they are spending their time protesting against other types of cruelty. You can always say 'Why don't you protest against X, Y or Z?' Someone will be doing that, but there is a lot that needs doing - so rather than writing notes about the lack of protest on that particular issue, why not start a campaign? Just go and protest at your local offender?
fredrico
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Well.
22.05.2005 11:25
Quite understandable really isn't it.
anon
Also
22.05.2005 11:27
Let's just hope that religion eventually fades away and the whole world becomes atheist. I'd give it about 250 years though...
anon
The misinformed or the biggotted
22.05.2005 13:46
an activist
Mis-informed
23.05.2005 08:57
I am a vegi and also Jewish.
There were many years in my life before I was vegitarian and I used to eat kosher meat.
Jan, you are mis-informed. Both Kosher and Halal rules state that the animal must be killed with the least pain possible. That is why the animals rarely bellow.
The non kosher/halal way is far more cruel, where an animal is struck first, often the victim is not stunned and will be put in great pain.
Whilt I agree that all meat is produced cruely, you should not single out Islam and Judaism as the cruelest.
A Vegi
Ludicrous
23.05.2005 18:01
jan
Listen you silly person
24.05.2005 08:25
You should not target specific religions but the industry as a whole.
By targetting religions (about which yu know bugger all) you leave all genuine anti-meat protestors open to criticism.
Non religious slaughter is as bad as religious slaughter
Grow up and do it properly
XXX
If
24.05.2005 21:52
jan
do something about it then...
11.06.2005 15:21
Enough Talk, Time for Action.
fredrico
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For jan
07.06.2006 21:03
You think the animal rights movement is legitimate...only if they protest about Jewish and Mulsim methods of slaughter.
I know someone who has spent 10 years campaining against fur - hardly a rebellious hobby.
But, IN YOUR OPINION, they aren't genuine because they've never done the abbatoirs.
Get a life, you ignoramus.
darren