Tell Gucci to Stop Clubbing Baby Seals
By stvasile
@stvasile (7306)
Romania
March 31, 2008 5:36am CST
After hearing from supporters in Russia who have seen Gucci boots made from seal fur for sale in that country, PETA is urging the Italian fashion house to banish all fur from its collections. By selling seal fur, Gucci is responsible for the horrors of the Canadian seal hunt that have repeatedly been documented on video.
Despite a public outcry across the globe, hunters in Canada massacre hundreds of thousands of seals every year in order to sell their skins and rake in profits. Sealers bludgeon seals with clubs and "hakapiks" (clubs with a metal hook on the end), drag conscious seals across ice floes with boat hooks, and toss dead and dying animals into heaps, leaving their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their meat. Seals are also shot, but bludgeoning is preferred because pelt buyers deduct money for each bullet hole in a seal's skin.
Please let Gucci know that whether it comes from clubbing baby seals, electrocuting minks on fur farms, or crushing lynxes' legs in steel traps, every fur item that Gucci sells represents unimaginable suffering.
Please use the form below to send an e-mail to Robert Polet, the chair, president, and CEO of Gucci.
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/gucci_seals
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
2 Apr 08
I see we're both animal activists and against any cruelty against animals, perhaps in general and most certainly the barbaric seal hunts especially baby seals, that only started on March 28th...I started my own discussion about it
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1453534.aspx
This is news to me though about Gucci and the use of seal fur for their boots, and no doubt other of their items...
I also had another discussion after hearing about three seal hunters that were accidentally killed and a fourth missing...I got some flack about it by a few responders, but most also agreed it was like a justice done. I had admitted to not feeling sorry for the deaths of the hunters..almost like a karmic justice for the pain and misery the sealers have inflicted on the baby seals all these years
But don't worry will sign the petition
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@Perry123 (363)
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14 May 08
Non of you would be here if it were not for human cultures being hunters. Now we are faR more of a threat to nature through the use of so called humane alternatives to animals. Soya for example is deadly poisonous to most animals and drains the soil of nurients, and has almost made the jaguar extinct: something thousands of years of native and modern fashion use did not. Synthetic clothing is all made from petro chmicals ....do you forget what exon valdez and many other spills do to sea mammals?
It is a great shame we as humans are still not predominately hunters: the modern western way of life is a far greater threat to animals.
@Perry123 (363)
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14 May 08
In fact the more I think about what you are saying the more sick I find it. You speak about kharma from your comfortable western urban life without any thought of those who risk their lives to provide food and clothing while their way of life does not damage the environment the way ours does. THINK next time you go to a supermarket the amount of habitat destruction all that mass produced food and products have caused. What became of the animals where the supermarkets and cities now stand? What became of the buffalo where now the American breadbasket and cities now stand? Do you rally want the artic communities to develop their economies in the same way?
PLEASE read the links I provide below. You have been conned by a very evil organisation. Rather, if animals really concern you ally yourslf with a Conservation organisation like the IUCN who do no object to traditional hunting: indeed they point out how it is a force for good in Conservation.
But if you choose stay with the animal rights lobby remember that those who place animal life above human life can take you to very sinister places. It was after all Heinrich Himmler who first made the phrase "animal rights" popular.
http://www.kaltio.fi/index.php?494
Yes. Animal Rights is a Nazi idea.
and perhaps you can also explain to me if you think killing of seal for food and fur is "murder" but this is not:
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/petaTrial2.cfm
Killed for nothing. Nothing. And companion animals given to them by people who thought they would rehome them.
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