Extreme Animal Rights Tactics Erode Support
Extremists Seek to Impose Their Views “Demonstrate against Saks Fifth Avenue’s Summer Fur Promotion.”
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Fashion Industry Features Fur
Fur: Has a New Generation Shrugged Off the Old Stigma? New statistics from the International Fur Federation suggest a once-reviled industry is thriving.
CEO: “No, We Don’t Skin Animals Alive for Fur”
Mark Oaten, CEO of the International Fur Trade Federation Sets the Record Straight. The fur industry is regularly accused of skinning animals alive
The Fur Debate – Recycled
Should I wear that coat? Toss it away? Just sell it on eBay? Twenty years ago my answer would have been clear: I would have conducted a ritual burning of the mink while enveloped in a smug glow of political correctness. Read more….
International Fur Federation Creates #FURNOW
Campaign Shows the Modern Face of Fur The International Fur Federation (IFF) has developed a global fashion campaign to communicate the modern face of fur and to break down stereotypes around what fur is and who wears it.
Plastic Bags on Our Backs
Fur Commission Commentary Created in the 1970s as an inexpensive convenience, the plastic bag is now an everyday item with costs that are adding up fast. The plastic bags we use today will be with us virtually forever. We use tens of billions of bags a month, or about half a million bags a minute! The…
PETA’s Zeal Pushes the Envelope Too Far for Some
Tactics Drive Even Animal Advocates & Employees Away For 20 years, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has waged a brutal war in the name of kindness.
PETA and the Making of a Conflict Industrialist
Gary Yourofsky Finally Lands a “Job” Gary Yourofsky, who made his questionable contribution to society as founder of Animals Deserve Adequate Protection Today and Tomorrow (ADAPPT), is now officially on the payroll of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA) and is available at garyy@peta.org.
“Fur Free 2000” Stage Two
FUR COMMISSION USA COMMENTARY, MAY 6, 1999 THE “FUR FREE 2000” campaign of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has moved to stage two: legislation. As you recall, Christmas 1998 brought the world video clips of a German Shepherd being bled and skinned alive, supposedly somewhere in China. (1) As the dog howls,…
Fur Institute Motion Urges Governments to Practice What They Preach
IUCN Again Calls on Members to Base Policies on Science Fur Institute of Canada, October 16, 2008 – Ottawa: World conservationists have sent a strong message to governments and policy makers, to put their sustainable use principles into practice.