02/04/06 Loudly For the Ban!

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Animal Friends continues with the campaign for the ban on breeding of animals for fur in Croatia and invite you to a loud anti-fur protest

In order to show the suffering and horrors hidden behind the raising of animals for their fur, this month Animal Friends launched a big national campaign for the ban on breeding of animals for fur in the Republic of Croatia with the support of actor Robert Boskovic, who with chinchilla Pepo, sends a message "Do you know that 200 chinchillas have to be killed for one fur-coat?" from 50 billboards placed in seven Croatian towns - Zagreb, Split, Osijek, Rijeka, Varazdin, Zadar, and Pula.

Animal Friends continues this campaign with the big international protest for the ban on breeding of animals for fur in Croatia, similar to a last year's protest at which over 150 protesters gathered. The noisy protest, which will be supported by organizations and individuals from abroad, will take place on Saturday, February 4, 2006 at noon, on Ban Jelacic Square.

The interested citizens can join a noisy procession of activists armed with banners, whistles, and drums at 11 A.M. by the Well of Life in front of Croatian National Theatre, and go along the following route: Croatian National Theatre, Frankopanska Street, Ilica, Ban Jelacic Square, Ilica, Margaretska Street, Petar Preradovic Square, Preradoviceva Street, Masarykova street, Croatian National Theatre.

Support to the legal ban on breeding of animals for fur in Croatia was also given by Croatian celebrities like Robert Boskovic, Lana Klingor, Maja Vucic, Ivana Kindl, Viktor Drago, Igor Hajdarhodzic, Minea, Slovenian singer Jadranka Juras, Nina Vodopivec, Ines Bojanic, a singer from Slovenian band TABU, and others, and some of them will at noon on Ban Jelacic Square welcome the protesters.

Why anti-fur protest?

Because in Croatia chinchillas are bred and killed for fur by neck breaking and gas poisoning, the environment is polluted and natural resources are being destroyed, and besides this, carcinogenic chemicals, dangerous for human health, are used in fur production. Croatia should not support this shameful, uncivilized and ecologically dangerous treatment of neither animals nor the humans which damages its reputation and thereby pushes it back into Stone Age! In only six months in 2001 Chinchilla d.o.o. from Cakovec has produced 10,5 tons of skinned animal corpses. In Croatia there is no control of breeding and keeping chinchillas, because breeders keep animals in basement cages, stables, they do not have registered business and necessary licenses, and there is doubt that buying of animals is also not completely legal.

Why anti-fur protest?

Because Austria has banned breeding of animals for fur and fur production in 1998 and Great Britain did that in 2003, and if Croatia wants to become a part of civilized world it is logical that Croatia should follow this example. Since breeding of animals for fur was banned in countries in which breeding fur-bearing animals was a strong branch of economy, there is no obstacle that this ban comes into force in Croatia as well.

Why anti-fur protest?

Because in order to make one single animal fur coat one must kill: 10-24 foxes, 16-20 beavers, 20-30 raccoons, 26-34 nutrias, 30-40 opossums, 40-60 minks, 60-80 sables, 100-400 squirrels, 180-240 ermines, 200-250 chinchillas.

Why anti-fur protest?

Because the process of making a fur coat is neither ethical nor ecological and animals raised for fur spend their whole lives locked in tiny wire cages full of filth, fur balls and waste of other animals. Wire cages hurt their paws and they are constantly exposed to extreme weather conditions, hunger, thirst, stress, and are forced to cannibalism.

Why anti-fur protest?

Because there is nothing humane in the way of killing those animals. Before being skinned, the animals are killed by neck breaking, gas poisoning or by poison injections in their hearts. Or they are electrocuted with electric shocks of 240 V whereby one electrode is pushed in either their mouth, vagina or anus. Sometimes animals only lose consciousness but are still alive when being skinned.

For many other answers to the question why anti-fur protest please visit our Fur Industry section where you will see in words and pictures that Croatia really needs an Act which will ban breeding of animals for fur!

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