Hong Kong: PETA Anti-fur Activists Speak Out

A small group of protesters sat in cages on the pavement outside the Hong Kong Fur and Fashion Fair on Thursday, demonstrating against the cruelty towards animals in fur farms and markets.

Members of the animal activist group PETA say a 14-month undercover investigation on fur markets and fur farms in China painted a bleak picture.

[Jason Baker, PETA Asia Director]:
"There's no protection for animals on fur farms in China. We repeatedly go in and the government keeps saying things are going to improve, things are improving and they're not."

Peta released footage from a 2009 undercover investigation into fur markets and farms, which they say is headed for use within the fur industry.

Hong Kong Fur Federation spokesman Timothy Everest says the fur industry is doing its best to improve conditions.

[Timothy Everest, Hong Kong Fur Federation]:
"I'm not saying that every Chinese farm is a paragon of virtue because it isn't and I would be foolish to try and convince you otherwise. But they do their very, very best. And instead of hiding in cages downstairs, they should maybe work with the Chinese to improve welfare standards which is what the fur trade wants to do."

He added that China is not a major global fur source, with most of it going into domestic clothing industry.
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_china/2010-02-26/606476905383.html

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[Shovelheaded666]

Gooks get out of my country!!!!!

[Shovelheaded666]

You can't grill it till you kill it!!!!!

[NasimATBird]

@Hinaisthebest they dont want to spend money, use cheapest possible way. Also insane chinese tradition says torture animals before eating them

[kuwaizair]

@Hinaisthebest  i hear they paied them to do it

[kuwaizair]

@Harleyquinn191 or rattle them

[KamboSoulja]

They have alot of guts going against the chinese government and economy but if try anything radical, Just know that they'll disappear just like that

[Harleyquinn191]

i'd kick the cages ^w^

[Hinaisthebest]

why dont they just fucking put the animals to sleep and then skin them? whats so fucking hard about it?. The FUR industry should give THEM a hard time on their inhumane procedures rather than fighting humans with common sense, besides whose going to buy the overated fur coats with the coming global crises? They live in fucking fantasy worlds. Scumbags.

[SoFunnyYouExplode]

FILTHY LIAR!

[NordLejon]

Just pay some money to the chineese maffia, and they will release the animals and burn the farm down, simple! Guns do better business.

why?

Because people who do this to animals, commit torture and would not think twice of doing it to humans, if it payd well enough. Think about it. This is what slows the world down, that´s what you find in the dictionary in the word: Scum