Fur Farming - the Fur Trade

Fur farming is probably the most vicious and horrifying thing that could ever happen to an animal. It is so excruciating that immediate death, although inevitable, would be better. There are many animals that are put into this trade, including minks, raccoons, foxes, rabbits, wolves and many more. People believe that fur is a luxury, defining elegance and dignity in people who wear it. What they don’t realise is that the animals that the fur came from died in the most brutal way possible. For their fur animals may be beaten to death, electrocuted, drowned or in most circumstances, literally just skinned alive. Approximately 30 million animals are raised in cages and killed worldwide for fur every year. The animals are caught in painful traps and shoved into tiny cages. The wild animals caught for fur are have their bodies crushed in bone-breaking traps. Days of agonising pain could ensue as they bleed and starve to death.

China supplies more than half of the finished fur products imported to Australia. There are no penalties for abusing animals on fur farms in China. In an undercover investigation performed by PETA activists, a sickening discovery was made. The methods of obtaining the animal skins were far worse than anyone had imagined. On these fur farms, many animals are still alive and struggling when the workers flip them onto their backs or hang them by their legs to skin them. If an animal is struggling and making it hard to obtain the skin, the worker may stomp on the head or neck of the animal to allow a clean cut. In other cases, it was much worse. Before the animals were skinned alive, they were pulled from their cages and thrown to the ground. The workers at the farm then continued to stomp on and beat the animal, causing broken bones and convulsions, but not always immediate death. The skin was then ripped off the animal and the bloody, half alive carcass was thrown onto a growing pile of bodies. Some of the bodies were still alive, breathing in