Friday, Dec. 21, 2018 | 2 a.m.
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At Christmas gift-giving time, and throughout the year, many shoppers are duped into buying real fur masquerading as faux fur, thereby unwittingly contributing to the horrific torture and pain of even domestic animals.
What about your gloves, earmuffs, pet toys, statues, accessories and trinkets? Sometimes these are real fur from animals that are brutally killed and turned into collars, coats and cuffs, etc. They are often falsely labeled as either a different type of animal fur or faux fur, or not labeled at all.
Animals are killed by the cheapest and most gruesome methods available, including anal and genital electrocutions, mass gassing, drowning, neck-breaking and toxic chemical injections, and are often skinned while still alive. Animals killed in leg-hold traps in the U.S. often chew off their legs to get back to their young.
Let this be the season of compassion for all animals, who deserve to wear the coats they were born with.
