When undercover investigators made their way onto Chinese fur farms, they found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal's leg, the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut.
When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals' heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals' hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera.
Before they are skinned alive, animals are pulled from their cages and thrown to the ground; workers bludgeon them with metal rods or slam them on hard surfaces, causing broken bones and convulsions but not always immediate death. Animals watch helplessly as workers make their way down the row.
http://features.peta.org/ChineseFurFarms/index.asp (Link, not sure how the link thing works, just copy + paste on a tab/window.)
I think this is inhumane, and cruel. I couldn't last long while watching the video, it was too disturbing. Please, don't buy fur.
Dogs have long been considered companion animals - foxes have always been called 'vermin'.
Animals are animals, regardless of instinct. The manner in which they hunt differ, but they are still animals and must receive equal respect. Dogs? They hunt in packs to make sure they win their game. Foxes? They sneak one out, targeting the small fry that won't resist as hard as others. Humans? We farm our cattle. I think the manner in which Man gets their game is the most despicable, worse than what foxes do.
@OP: At least give the animals a clean death before skinning! If you eat dogs and use their fur, do both at the same time, as merciful as possible.
-sigh- we were originally hunter-gatherers but then the laziness set in and somebody thought 'meh, this running stuff is pretty boring and too much like hard work... what if I shoved some animals in this area where they can't get out? Easy meals and no running!'. And then we developed from there - making larger farms and applying the same idea to our vegetables and fruits too.
Wow, you rarely see animals move without their skin on, and then that guy stomped its head and blood came out of its nose, mouth and eyes...
Im gonna say now my resolve would be stomping those fur farmers heads until their eyes bleed out and then throwing their bloody-half dead corpses onto a pile and letting the flies lay maggots in their brains and vultures tear their brains out through their eye sockets.
I dont have a problem with the farming, hunting, or any of that stuff, but regulations are necessary. Is their any difference than skinning an animal alive or immediately after its dead? If so tell me, because if not then i dont see any reason for live skinning.
Skinning an animal alive is not the right way to do it. You should at least kill it first humanely, so no pain when skinning.
You call someone a psycho when he/she skins a terrorist alive. You call someone a loyal soldier when he/she kills the terrorist humanely. It's the same with dogs and wolves and hyenas and three-eyed greenies...
