fur

A detailed Summary of fur

"Every year, the fur industry is responsible for the miserable lives and painful deaths of nearly 40 million animals. Many are suffocated, drowned, or beaten in the wild; however, others are gassed or electrocuted to death on fur farms. These animals endure unspeakable cruelty (fur statistics)." To kill the animals for the fur to keep ourselves warm is wrong. There are many alternative ways to keep us warm. It does not necessarily mean that we have to wear animal skin to keep ourselves warm.

The way these animals are killed for their skin is a gruesome site for anyone. There are many techniques to acquire furs. Some of the ways are by electrocute, gassed, leghold trap, wire snare, conibear body gripping trap (crushes the animal) and many other. "Two out of three are the innocent animals that are not the targets of the fur are killed in order to get the other furbearing animals (McCann)."

There are various types of animals that are targeted by the furbearing farmers and hunters. "The most common animals that are targeted are chinchillas, foxes, minks, coyotes, raccoons, and many others. These are the main animals that are farm for fur. The treatment these animals get while they are being farms for fur is

Death comes to all people and animals. Some die of old age, illnesses, and tragic pain. Imagine a person being raise just to be killed for fashion wear. Animals go through agonizing pain and death just for their skin. Farmers and hunters use lot of different technique to kill the poor animals to get fur. Their technique's are that the animals are traps, drowned, beaten to death in wild, gassed, strangled or electrocuted in captivity on fur farms.

"The most popular animal killed for fur is mink. About twenty-six million minks are killed for the fur every year (fur Statistics)." However, the way these minks are raised is not a proper way. They are kept in open sheds that provide little protection from wind, cold, and heat. The animals fur helps keep them warm in winter, but in summer is very hard on minks because they lack the ability to cool their bodies without bathing in water. The only method of euthanasia for mink certified by FCUSA Animal Welfare Committee is pure carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide bottled gas. The animals are immediately rendered unconscious and die without stress or pain.

"Although traps are set in order to catch certain species, often they make unintended catches such as dogs, these indiscriminate traps have injured cats, sheep's, birds, and even toddlers. The animals, usually badly injured, are thrown away and known in the industry jargon as "trash". Because of the indiscriminate nature of these catching methods, the traps are also a danger to those animals, which are already threatened with extinction. The number of undesired catches, can be extremely high,

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Approximate Word count = 1078
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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