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Ann Arbor,
Michigan just made history by becoming the first city in the
entire Midwestern United States to completely ban the sale of newly made fur
products — for which animals are confined, tortured,
neglected, and ultimately slaughtered. The
physical and behavioral issues inherent to animals on fur
farms, such as mink or foxes, are haunting —
animals born into filthy, tight cages are crowded together.
They are injured in accidents or fights, and their
wounds, missing limbs, and infections go widely
untreated. The stressful, unnatural setting of these
farms leads to behaviors like self mutilation,
cannibalism of fellow dead animals, and
stress-related behaviors like pacing, circling, or depression
creating a sort of comatose withdrawal from life itself.
And that is just what the
animals go through when they are alive. To harvest their skin
and fur, people stoop to the lowest, most gruesome methods —
these poor babies are gassed, their necks broken, or
they are electrocuted with devices inserted into their anuses
or genitals. These unreliable methods often leave these
animals alive but in immeasurable pain as they are skinned
alive.
Fur products are totally
unnecessary when you consider how much misery goes into making
them — not to mention, these farms are hotbeds for
COVID-19 outbreaks, a disease that originally began in animals
before ravaging people. That's why we are calling on
three more midwestern cities to follow Ann Arbor's lead.
Sign the petition joining us in asking Chicago,
Minneapolis, and Milwaukee to put a huge stopper in the demand
for fur products and ban their sale! These
three cities must take a page out of Ann Arbor's
book, for the welfare of animals and people alike.
Thank you,
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Lauren
The Care2 Petitions Team
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P.S. Fur
products just aren't worth the cruelty. Sign the petition and ask more cities to ban fur
product sales! |
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