Fur - how can anybody be comfortable with this?

[eman]

A couple of nights ago the BBC screened a programme featuring Paul and Heather McCartney's campaign to ban the trade in dog and cat fur. It amazes me that such a campaign should even be necessary, but sadly the trade in fur is currently at an all-time high.

This horrific video shows animals being skinned alive at a Chinese fur farm. I couldn't watch it all in one sitting. It's one of the most dreadful things I've ever witnessed.
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/videod...video=fur_farm

The TV programme showed extracts from another video in which a frightened but passive GSD (Alsation) was removed from a sack, struck across the face, tied to a fence and then skinned alive.

This cruelty has to stop.

China supplies more than half of the finished fur garments imported for sale in the United States. Even if a fur garment's label says it was made in a European country, the animals were probably raised and slaughtered elsewhere—possibly on an unregulated Chinese fur farm.

You can read more about the campaign here http://www.furisdead.com/feat-heathermills.asp