Voice for Animals would like to support Skinned! in their campaign against the fur industry. Rae Vesudevan who heads up Skinned! has decided to fight the fur industry by putting Pappas Furs, Canada's largest independent furrier, out of business. She's already gotten Famous Players to stop advertising Pappas Furs in their theatres and now needs your help to get Guest Life Vancouver to dump his ads.
 
Please help by writing or phoning, we must put an end to this cruel and abusive industry.

For a sample letter, see Di's excellent letter in this blog entry.

From Skinned:
 
Action Alert:  Skinned! – Transcontinental Gives Activists a Slap in the Face
 
Last year, Skinned! began a campaign to rid Transcontinental Western Magazines Group of its fur advertising in GuestLife Vancouver.  If you recall, GuestLife is a publication for tourists that is placed in high end hotel rooms in Vancouver .  Pappas Furs, Canada’s largest independent furrier has advertised consistently in this publication for the past several years.  
 
We were recently displeased to see that the publisher of GuestLife, Kim Peacock  approved additional advertising for Pappas Furs in the latest issue of this magazine.  We are astounded at how uncooperative  Ms. Peacock has been regarding this whole matter.  She has shown complete disregard for public opinion and is convinced the fur industry is “reputable” despite being informed of all the gruesome facts behind this depraved industry.   
 
Skinned! is not going to tolerate this indifference.  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 500 – 2608 Granville Street
Vancouver, BC
V6H 3V3
 
Email: kim.peacock@ transcontinental .ca
Phone: 604-877-7732
 
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 a horrific 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.  This 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 ecofriendly 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.