Caged Animal Defenders to Rattle Hong Kong’s Fur Fair

What:   To push attendees of the Hong Kong International Fur & Fashion Fair to stick to wearing their own skin and leave rabbits, chinchillas, and other animals in peace, PETA supporters – with the backing of Fur Free Hong Kong – will pose as captive animals by squeezing into cramped cages on Thursday at the open area outside Central Plaza opposite to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre to show eventgoers and passersby how animals are tormented and violently killed for fleeting fashion.

“Callousness and cruelty are on full display at Hong Kong’s fur fair, where every coat, piece of trim, or trinket made of fur comes from an animal who endured a terrifying and painful death,” says PETA Senior Vice President Jason Baker. “PETA is calling on fashionistas to fill their closets with luxurious vegan materials and put an end to the disgraceful fur industry.”

Animals used in the fur industry spend their entire lives inside cramped cages – where they frantically pace back and forth, gnaw on the bars, and mutilate themselves – before they’re electrocuted, bludgeoned, gassed, or even skinned alive. Other animals are caught in steel traps, which slam shut on their legs and often cut down to the bone, causing excruciating pain and blood loss. (See video footage from PETA’s eye-opening investigation into fur farms in Russia.)

Hundreds of major companies and brands – including Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Gucci, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, and Versace – have stopped selling fur. Only a few holdouts remain.

Where: Open Area outside Central Plaza (near the fountain) opposite to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre at 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong (Google Map)

When:  Thursday, February 22, 12 noon sharp

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.

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