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Fur Council Of Canada Duped By Comedy Attack
posted on November 25, 2008
OPEN LETTER
November 20, 2008
To: Alan Herscovici, Fur Council of Canada
From: Peter Hamilton, Lifeforce Foundation
Re: Fur Council of Canada Duped by Comedy Attack
The Fur Council of Canada’s has unwittingly put a video on your web site that mocks the callous attitude of the fur industry towards sentient wildlife, companion animals and children. The video is under “Gavin Critch Style File and the new Fur is Green Campaign”. It was originally on CBC’s This Hour has 22 minutes. http://www.furcouncil.com/Afficher.aspx?page=311&langue=en
The comedian was mocking your “Fur Is Green” campaign ---not supporting it!
The joke about turning racoon visitors in your backyard into racoon fur hats actually attacks the Fur Council’s insensitivity towards harming animals. And this includes domestic animals too. When referring to Green House Warming the comedian shows a photo of a chain white dog and states “What’s Dion going to do that little puppy? Might I suggest a nice pair of mukluks? Also referring to the Chinese slaughter of dogs and cats.
“Critch” mocks your “Fur is Green” falsehoods by telling people “If you want to do something good for the environment kill a small animal and slap it on your noggin” as what the sinister Fur Council claims.
In addition to your flagrant disregard to animal rights the Fur Council appears to be ambivalent to human rights too. The video puts you in the same category as those who would exploit child labour in Third World Countries by saying that those children shouldn’t make fake fur but “to do what they do best – make running shoes”.
The Fur Council of Canada continues to try to desensitize caring people by trying to not address the violence towards dogs, cats and wildlife that are brutally killed for fur fashion. This is at a time when society is attempting to developed stronger anti-cruelty laws. From trap lines to fur farm prisons, killing animals for their fur is part of a barbaric past that must be stopped.
In 2007, the Vancouver-based ecology organization, Lifeforce, sent a challenge to the Fur Council of Canada. We requested that you allow our representative to film the November/ December "pelting" of mink and foxes on fur farms. Nearly two million animals are killed every year. You did not permit this to happen. If fur is “green” then why not show the public the life and death struggle of mink and foxes in “farm” cages and their “euthanasia”?
I will let politicians know that I do not want my tax dollars given to the Fur Council of Canada and supporting this flagrant disregard for animal and human rights. The message will be loud and clear “Don’t Buy Fur – Fur is Bloody Death”.
See the Lifeforce video “Furgotten?” about fur farms in British Columbia.
For further information: lifeforcesociety@hotmail.com
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