Question:
How does this video of animals being skinned alive for their fur make you feel?
Syd C
2009-09-13 15:53:47 UTC
How do you feel about this?

When undercover investigators made their way onto Chinese fur farms, they found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal's leg, the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut.
When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals' heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals' hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera.

Before they are skinned alive, animals are pulled from their cages and thrown to the ground; workers bludgeon them with metal rods or slam them on hard surfaces, causing broken bones and convulsions but not always immediate death. Animals watch helplessly as workers make their way down the row.

video link: http://www.peta.org/feat/chineseFurFarms/index.asp

Or google "Chinese fur farms"

It makes me cry.
Three answers:
Rob
2009-09-13 16:05:20 UTC
wow....people should stop buying fur products
?
2016-05-19 21:52:17 UTC
It is cruel but nature is cruel. Many lions and big cats start eating their meals before they are dead. Poisonous snakes venom often simply paralyzes their prey as they eat them. To be honest from a cold hard Darwinian point of view their is no need to worry about it. (every body I know who is a vegan is also a Darwinian) A good capitalist would however have a big problem with the procedure. You have wasted time effort and many of the pelts could and would be damaged. Just as not enough food crops exist naturally in the world to provide food for the human population. Their are not enough animals in the wild to provide enough pelts and leather. It is good that we farm raise animals now for food and fur and leave the majority of animals alone in the natural habitat that is left. Humans are the top of the food chain and have discovered ways to increase our population beyond what mother nature can provide. I have no fur and very only a little leather in my closet because the cost is to high. Your choice is simple if you believe man is bad and should not be top of the food chain. Remove your clothing and go into grisly, lion, or tiger habitat. Do not build shelter only eat the plants you can find. No tool using please. The top of the food chain is not a place for the weak. Even if the whole world was vegan natural occurring, grains, nuts and such would not feed us all. Meaning we need farm land which means less natural habitat. So go into the woods if you can not stomach being on the top of the food chain.
Matt
2009-09-13 16:01:38 UTC
I'd rather not look, and you should really not put a video link, the description is great enough, thanks.


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