“Butchered babies’ skins are a lack of compassion — not fashion,” PETA said Wednesday in an email to reporters.
In a move that should surprise no one, PETA is coming out strongly against Gucci for their supposed use of seal-fir in boots found in Russia.
In an e-mail to Gucci CEO Robert Polet, (Download it now) PETA describes what they call “documented seal hunt horrors.”
“Is this kind of blatant cruelty to animals something that Gucci wants to associate itself with?” the email states.
According to PETA, Canada’s annual seal hunt, which begins this week in Labrador and Newfoundland, is the largest massacre of marine mammals in the world.
“People worldwide have looked on in horror for years as the Canadian government has permitted the annual slaughter of up to 335,000 baby harp seals, with the quota set at 275,000 seals this year,” PETA said. “The terrified seals are shot or clubbed repeatedly, and as many as 42 percent are skinned alive.”
“Whether it’s clubbing baby seals, electrocuting minks on fur farms, or crushing lynxes’ legs in steel-jaw traps, every fur that Gucci sells represents unimaginable suffering,” siad PETA Assistant Director Matt Prescott. “From Moscow to Milan and everywhere in between, cruelty to animals is never in fashion.”
dear ,sir/madam
my names is Isobel Nicholson i go to south hunsley school just out side of yorkshire ,i am writing to as for more information on the animal crulity towards fur , my project is to support you in helping aminals from dieing for its skin/fur in the fashion industory.
i would aprishiate it if you got back to me.
yours sensirly Isobel Nicholson x
12 years of age y8
south hunsley