Why vegans reject animal materials?

Minks, foxes, cattle, otters, ferrets, chinchillas, are part of the group of animals used to produce leather for clothing and upholstery.

Hunted animals for their skin

The animals hunted for their fur will face a horrible and brutal death: either be caught in snares or traps that will suffer in agony until the end, or, as in the case of seals will be killed with blows to the head.

Fur Farms

Many of the animals who are exploited for their fur are confined in cages on fur farms. The 85% of European production is native fur farmed animals.

Lives confined in cages

The suffering that these animals suffer while allowed to live is overwhelming. When living in the wild they all need large areas to live and thrive. On farms the conditions to which they are subjected, living in small and dirty cages metal, the mentally unbalanced so that they fall into behaviors ranging from convulsive movements repeated until self-mutilation of limbs or tails.

Rape of females

Breeding techniques are specially designed for females to have the highest number of births before they themselves are executed when their performance decreases.

Killing of animals for the fur industry

The animals that are enslaved for their fur are killed in several ways: they are electrocuted, gassed them, choking them, they are clubbed or hunting traps that agonize for hours, even days.

For mink, foxes, chinchillas and ferrets their lives will last until the thickness of your skin friendly enough to be marketed. At that time they will be killed by methods that try to produce less damage to your valuable skin: lethal injection, suffocation, electrocution. Sometimes they are torn skin while the animals are still alive.

Animal Materials

To make a fur coat only needed, depending on the animal's skin that it has been started, the following number of animals: 300 chinchillas, 17 bobcats, 20 baby seals, 8 adult seals, 60 mink, 20 otters, 20 foxes, martens 60, 250 squirrels, 12 wolves.

Countries that have banned fur industry

The United Kingdom banned fur farms in 2000, and are also banned in Austria and Serbia. Irish governments have resisted prohibition, protecting a tiny but wildly destructive industry. The five remaining fur farms in Ireland are the only cause of continuing releases of mink, sometimes by accident and sometimes attacks. They are also the place of astonishing cruelty, where sentient individuals are confined to cages the size of a few boxes of shoes. The Irish Government is considering the disappearance of farms from 2012. But Ireland is a small player. Two thirds of the world's mink farms and 70% of foxes are in other EU countries. Only Denmark produces 40% of global supply of mink pelts. Other countries where a ban discussion are Sweden and Norway.