Let's go back once again to talk about the combination of fur and animal torture, this time to attract attention to a type of boots that has been very fashionable in recent years. We are talking about the comfortable and warm Australian UGG boots, which, after the success of the past years, are reconfirmed as one of the winter 2011 fashion trends.
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Let's go back to talking about the binomial once again fur-torture on animals, this time to attract attention to a type of boots that has been very fashionable in recent years. We are talking about the comfortable and warm Australian UGG boots, which, after the success of the past years, are reconfirmed as one of the winter 2011 fashion trends.
They exist for men, women and even children, in a thousand different colors. A pair of these original shoes come to cost too plus 200 Euros. Thus, the less affluent buyers, to be dressed in the latest fashion and not be left behind, resort to the cheapest imitations, counterfeited to perfection almost always in China, A country that, as we have told you several times, certainly does not shine in terms of respect and protection for animals.
If behind the creation of the trendy original footwear hides the use of the skin of thousands of Australian sheep, what is behind the Chinese counterfeiting market is, if possible, even worse. In the soft, comfortable and economical "UGG-like" a long river of blood and unspeakable suffering flows for hundreds and hundreds of tender, funny and very sweet raccoons, guilty only of possessing a splendid soft and warm coat. Because the fur of the counterfeit boot is anything but synthetic ...
This time, however, everything was filmed, frame after frame, providing irrefutable proofs of the ignoble complicity of those who, with their unresponsive purchase, favor the unspeakable and inhuman violence to which these animals are subjected. Swiss Animal Protection investigators managed to sneak undercover in some Chinese farms in Hebei province and, equipped with hidden cameras, documented a massacre on the edge of reality, giving life to a very harsh, shocking and heartbreaking video, which some international newspapers have chosen not to publish due to the excessive violence.
The video begins with images of heartless "men" who, after having appropriated the poor animals, begin to hit them with metal rods and violently slam them on the ground. This "treatment" is only the beginning of the torture. It is not used to kill them, but to make sure that the raccoons do not move when the breeders tear off their skin very slowly, even if they are alive and well aware. In short, the animals are literally skinned alive, "Obviously" to get one better yield in the fur. The process starts from the feet up to the head. The creatures, now in agony but still alive, are then thrown with their now naked and bloody bodies into the heap of those who preceded them. Breath, heartbeat, directional movement of the body and movement of the eyeballs are still evident, too after skinning "in vivo". THE raccoons are then left to die alone amid unspeakable suffering, in the total absence of even the most elementary standards of animal welfare, which are denied even the simplest acts of kindness.
But, beyond the case of the UGG, it is a much more generalized and vast slaughter which, unfortunately, concerns not only the poor raccoons immortalized in this shock movie, but also foxes, minks, beavers, chinchillas, rabbits and even cats and dogs. Animals that are kept herded in cages in the open, exposed to pouring rain, cold or heat, waiting to be stunned by blows on the head, tortured and, finally, skinned alive.
It's not a horror movie, it's reality. In the face of such a mess it becomes truly impossible to allow this to continue to happen. Because the fault lies also with those who buy and contribute to this market.
The only way to prevent such cruelties from still being perpetrated is to never wear them fur coats. Because, as the famous Peta campaign says, it is better to be naked than complicit in this massacre.
And if we really don't want to avoid wearing the latest fashion boots, why don't we try to make them ourselves by recycling old sweaters? The eco-chic effect is guaranteed!
