Sign the Pledge to Be Fur-Free

Consumers everywhere need to know the truth about fur. When people learn that millions of innocent animals are beaten, boiled, hanged, and electrocuted for their fur every year; that each fur coat, each piece of fur lining or fur trim, and each fur cat toy represents the intense suffering of dozens of animals; and that furriers intentionally mislabel the fur of cats and dogs as fur from other species or as faux fur—then every decent human being will want to go fur-free.



Full Petition Text:



I, the undersigned, hereby pledge to go fur-free. I say ''No!'' to the cruel and barbaric slaughter of millions of animals around the world for their skin. I say ''No!'' to fur coats, fur collars, fur trim, fur trinkets, fur cat toys, and other products made from the fur of animals as well as to any attempt to sneak fur into everyday items. I pledge to expose the truth about fur and spread the word until we close down the international fur trade forever.

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Tell Donna Karen To Stop Using Rabbit Fur

Donna Karen

Protesters against Donna Karen's fur usage

Dead rabbits in fur factory

Donna Karan continues to use rabbit fur in her clothing designs, despite a 2008 promise to discontinue the use of fur.

Rabbits killed for their fur are raised in horrific conditions on fur farms, or caught in the wild in painful traps. Rabbits raised on fur factory farms spend their entire lives in tiny wire cages before they are gassed, electrocuted, poisoned, or strangled.

Many other top clothing designers refuse to support the cruelty inherent in the fur industry. Fur-free designers include: Calvin Klein, Stella McCartney, Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger. There is no reason why Donna Karan needs to continue to design using rabbit fur.

Sign this petition to ask Donna Karan to stop using fur for good.

TAKE ACTION HERE!

Bodmin The Bunny

Bodmin is a beautiful bunny who weighed 88 lbs at the time this photo was taken. He is so huge. Unlike the small bunnies we have here.

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Rabbits In China Are Not Celebrating The New Year

This post is just in addition to the previous post related to The Chinese Year and this means that it is The Year of The Rabbit. But because millions of rabbits suffer in the name of fashion in Chinese fur farms, we animal lovers can't really celebrate this year and call it The Year of Rabbits because the rabbits in China are suffering quite a lot.

These gentle animals spend nearly their entire lives crammed in filthy wire cages that are so small the animals are often unable to move more than a few tiny steps. They are born and raised to die at the hands of workers who kill them using methods — such as neck-breaking, suffocation, poisoning, and electrocution — that keep the rabbits' skin intact so that it can be sold. The skin of rabbits who are not fortunate enough to die instantly is often ripped from their bodies while they are still conscious.

We hope authoritative figures who can make a difference will see how cruel this entire process is and also un-necessary so to say. We can only hope and pray that this year brings something better for the rabbits.

Source: PETA

Tea Tested on Animals

The makers of Lipton tea have conducted (or paid others to conduct) painful, invasive tests on animals. Here are some of the details:

• Rabbits were fed a high-fat diet and then given tea to see if it affected the plaque that had formed on the animals' arteries. After the experiment, the rabbits were decapitated.
• Mice were fed tea ingredients to see if they had any effect on bowel inflammation. After the test, experimenters killed the mice by suffocating them or breaking their necks.
• Rats were forced to eat a high-sugar diet, and then tea was given to the animals to see if it had an impact on their sugar-induced brain damage.
• Piglets were infected with E. coli toxin and then fed tea in order to see if the tea affected diarrhea. Experimenters cut the pigs' intestines apart while the animals were still alive.

None of these tests were required by law. In fact, regulators have stated that animal tests are not sufficient to prove a health claim about a product.

Send an e-mail to Dave Lewis, dave.lewis@unilever.com, president of Unilever Americas (Lipton's parent company), and politely ask him to stop testing tea and tea ingredients on animals. If your message can't be delivered, please e-mail the company using its contact form.

Source:

http://blog.peta2.com/2010/12/tea-tested-on-animals-wtf.html

Tell the Makers of Lipton Tea to Stop Torturing Animals

Before taking your next sip of tea, check the label on the tea box or bottle because you might be drinking a cupful of cruelty to animals. The company behind Lipton tea has been testing and paying others to test tea—a beverage that has been consumed for thousands of years—on animals. The tea giant has caused animals to suffer and die simply to investigate the possible health benefits linked to its tea products and ingredients, even though regulators have stated that animal tests are not sufficient to prove a health claim about a product.

In these cruel and painful tests, rabbits, mice, rats, and piglets were tortured and then killed by decapitation and suffocation, among other methods. Following are more of the horrific details about what happened to the animals who were used in the company's experiments:

• Rabbits were fed a high-fat and high-cholesterol diet, leading to extreme hardening of their arteries. They were then fed tea to see if it could reduce the lesions that formed on their arteries. After the test, experimenters cut off the rabbits' heads.
• Mice who were bred to suffer from a painful bowel inflammation were fed tea ingredients in order to see if the ingredients had any effect on the animals' condition. After the test, experimenters killed the mice by suffocating them and breaking their necks.
• Rats were forced to eat a high-sugar diet, and then tea was given to the animals to see if it could protect against sugar-induced brain damage. Other rats had their abdominal wall punctured and were fed radioactively labeled tea ingredients through a tube in their stomachs to examine the absorption of tea in the body. Then they were killed, frozen with liquid nitrogen, and crushed.
• Piglets were exposed to E. coli toxin and then fed tea in order to see if the tea could prevent fluid loss and diarrhea. As part of the tests, experimenters cut the pigs' intestines apart while the animals were still alive. The piglets were then killed.

Modern, cruelty-free research methods are available and in use by other leading beverage companies around the world. We need YOU to join us in telling the maker of Lipton to ditch its crueltea to animals and use non-animal methods instead.

Please take a moment to ask the maker of Lipton to stop testing on animals and join Honest Tea, Twinings, Stash Tea, Luzianne Tea, and other tea companies that don't experiment on animals.

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