Fur Alert: Let's get The Metropolitan to dump the fur pimps

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For more information on this campaign please contact Rae Vasudevan at saynotofur2001

 

Skinned!: It’s Business Before Ethics

at The Metropolitan The management at The Metropolitan, a small luxury chain hotel in Canada, has decided that featuring GuestLife Vancouver in its guest rooms raises no ethical issues despite the fact that the publication advertises for fur. Skinned!’s efforts at painstakingly explaining how the hotels play a role in providing Pappas Furs and Holt Renfrew fur salon a tourist retail market have fallen on deaf ears as the hotel claims to be involved only in the business of food and travel and not in animal cruelty concerns. We have been told that their position regarding GuestLife Vancouver is “strong”. Well, so is ours! Please help us bring The Metropolitan corporate management to its senses and request them to only feature GuestLife Vancouver if they stop advertising for fur. Please politely write and/or call: Mr. Henry Wu, President Liverton Hotels International Incorporated 318 Wellington St. West Toronto, Ontario M5V 3T4 Phone: 416-597-6347* Email: mhwu *This is the direct line for Mr. Wu’s, personal assistant, Mary Pierce. Ms. Shatha Al-Reihani Director of Sales & Marketing The Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver 645 Howe Street Vancouver, BC V6C 2Y9 Phone: 604-687-1122 Email: shatha Here are some points that you might consider making: · 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 species.

_____________ For more information on this campaign please contact Rae Vasudevan at saynotofur2001