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DESCRIPTION:Please join members of IDA for a demonstration   to protest cruel treatment 
 of millions of animals   - including dogs and cats – raised and skinned 
 alive   on Chinese fur farms to support the fashion industry  When:         
    Wednesday, December 21       11:00 am - 1:30 pm  Where:           
 Consulate General of the People's Republic of China   1450 Laguna Street, 
 San Francisco  RSVP or   for more info: Melissa Gonzalez, (415) 388-9641 x 
 228 or melissa@idausa.org     A new undercover investigation of the Chinese 
 fur industry revealed dogs and cats packed into wire cages and stacked by 
 the thousands onto trucks. The shocking footage documents fur farm workers 
 throwing cages from the tops of trucks to the ground, a ten-foot drop that 
 shatters the legs of many animals inside, then poking animals through the 
 wire mesh with wooden poles. Animals are then killed by hanging, 
 strangulation or electrocution, but investigators also witnessed some 
 animals literally being skinned alive and then thrown onto a pile of other 
 dead and dying animals. Some continue to live – their eyes blinking and 
 their hearts visibly beating inside their exposed ribs – for up to ten 
 minutes.   More than 85% of the world's fur products are imported from 
 China, a country where there are no animal welfare regulations and animals 
 suffer the worst kinds of abuses. Among the rabbits, coyotes, foxes and 
 other animals, millions of cats and dogs are brutally murdered for their 
 fur. Many of them still wear collars and ID tags, an indication that they 
 were stolen from loving guardians to be turned into fur trim and trinkets. 
 Dog and cat fur exported to the U.S. is often deliberately mislabeled as 
 being from another species, so many consumers who purchase it are wearing 
 the fur of a dog or cat without knowing it.  The dogs, cats, minks, 
 raccoons, seals and foxes are counting on YOUR help.   Banners, posters and 
 leaflets will be provided.   We hope to see you there!  For more 
 information on the investigation of Chinese fur farms, please visit 
 http://www.furkills.org.   \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/12/19/83803.php
SUMMARY:Anti Fur demonstration
LOCATION:Consulate General of the People's Republic of China  1450 Laguna Street, 
 San Francisco  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/12/19/83803.php
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