Fwd: Action Alert: Skinned! - Here's Your Chance to Tell Transcontinental to Go to Hell!

May 16, 2008

Action Alert: Skinned! - Here’s Your Chance to Tell Transcontinental to Go to Hell! Skinned!, a BC-based animal protection group, has been trying to rid Transcontinental Western Media Group of its fur advertising in GuestLife Vancouver. If you recall, GuestLife is a publication for tourists that is placed in high-end hotels and basically directs people where to eat and shop. Pappas Furs, Canada’s largest independent furrier has

advertised consistently in GuestLife for the past several years. Last year, GuestLife started to also advertise for Holt Renfrew fur salon and we would like this publication to completely sever its ties with the fur industry altogether. As the publisher, Kim Peacock, remains wholly indifferent to our efforts, Skinned! will be delivering her office a final punch. We are scheduling an entire week of actions against Transcontinental and would greatly appreciate it if you could call and email and our behalf during this week. Your phone calls and emails have brought us to victory in the past, so please throw your support behind us again by emphatically demanding that Ms. Peacock cancel all the fur advertising in GuestLife Vancouver. Please write or call: Kim Peacock, Publisher Transcontinental Media Magazines Group Suite 560 – 2608 Granville Street Vancouver, BC V6H 3V3 Email: kim.peacock@ transcontinental .ca Phone: 604-877-7732 Here are some points on the animal cruelty behind fur in case anyone is rusty: · Fur bearing animals endure hideous suffering and death. They are caught in the wild with snares, leghold and conibear traps and endure excruciating pain. Death is rarely swift. In a desperate attempt to escape, many try to chew their limbs off, or languish for

hours or even days until the trapper returns, only to be shot or clubbed to death if they are still alive. Others die of infection or become prey to other animals. · Fur farms (more like fur factories) subject animals to a lifetime of suffering and death. Animals on fur farms spend their entire lives in small, filthy cages, madly pacing back and forth out of stress and boredom. Cannibalism is often the grim reality of this psychological distress. There is no humane slaughter legislation to protect these animals. Fur farmers

use gruesome killing methods that include gassing, suffocation, neck breaking, as well as anal and vaginal electrocution. The situation is becoming even more desperate since the majority of fur farmed animals are now being raised in China where wild furbearers and domestic dogs and cats are routinely skinned alive. · Contrary to the deceitful claims of the fur industry, fur is not an eco-friendly product. Snares, leghold and conibear traps are indiscriminate and non-targeted animals can be accidently caught, and some of these could involve members of endangered

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