Geeky1
3 Sep 2004, 7:59am
tcith posted a wallpaper in the post your desktop thread with a skinned fox and a url- www.furisdead.com I figured I'd check it out... Turns out it's run by PETA, so I don't know how credible the info on it is (I need to do some more research first) but... It's about fur farming and trapping.... I saw some stuff on there that... oh man, stuff like this just pisses me off...
Disclaimer: These pics are pretty graphic, and some people may find them disturbing
http://www.furisdead.com/images/injuredfoxbig.jpg
An injured fox; if I had to guess, I'd say it did this to itself...
http://www.furisdead.com/images/doglegholdbig.jpg
What a trap did to a dog's paw...
More pics can be found here; Some of these are extremely graphic, so if you're bothered by blood and gore, you may want to not click this link, or at the very least, don't click some of the thumbnails on the page.
http://www.furisdead.com/cc-photoranch.html
I mean how could someone live with themselves after being responsible for that happening to an animal? That fox in the first pic probably did that to itself out of boredom and frustration.
PETA claims these farms do things like snapping their necks. This doesn't kill the animal though, at least that's what they claim, and I believe they're correct- I'll ask my dad tomorrow to be sure (my dad is a zoologist). What it does, as I understand it, is to paralyze the animal; the brain dies from lack of oxygen, but this can take as long as 5 minutes. They also do stuff like sticking probes/alligator clips up the animals' rectums and/or vaginas and electrocuting them:
The farmer told our investigator that a humane death by an injection of barbiturate was "too expensive"—even though it costs a mere 30 cents per animal. So he uses a metal noose pole to lift each fox from the cage by the neck, shoves an electric prod into the animal’s rectum and forces a metal conductor into the animal’s mouth. A flip of a switch shoots 240 volts of electricity through the fox’s body.
According to our investigator, "The fox’s eyes usually shut and the body goes rigid. There is a crackling sound … and sometimes teeth break and fall out. … Often the anal probe falls out. When this happens, the fox convulses, shakes, and often cries."
Death doesn’t come quickly. Because the electricity does not go through and stun the brain, the foxes remain awake and feel the full excruciating force of a massive heart attack. Tom Amlung, a veterinarian and administrator for St. Clair County, Ill., animal control, says, "The animals do not lose consciousness … for one to two minutes. The time … seems like an eternity, so one can only imagine how the animal must feel experiencing this pain during this time with the electricity running from one end of his body to the other while heat builds up at the site of the electrode."
- http://www.furisdead.com/animals-chilling.html
I need to do some more research and see how prevalent this stuff is. We are, after all, talking about PETA, which is far from an unbiased source. I'd like to believe that it's not nearly as common as they claim it is, but the only way to know for sure is to do some more research. What PETA wants (to ban the fur trade, make everyone vegans, etc.) is never going to happen, and I wouldn't want it to. I wouldn't mind seeing fur banned, but I think that even that is being pretty unreasonable. But is it too much to ask for these people to keep and kill the animals in a humane way to minimize their suffering?
Disclaimer: These pics are pretty graphic, and some people may find them disturbing
http://www.furisdead.com/images/injuredfoxbig.jpg
An injured fox; if I had to guess, I'd say it did this to itself...
http://www.furisdead.com/images/doglegholdbig.jpg
What a trap did to a dog's paw...
More pics can be found here; Some of these are extremely graphic, so if you're bothered by blood and gore, you may want to not click this link, or at the very least, don't click some of the thumbnails on the page.
http://www.furisdead.com/cc-photoranch.html
I mean how could someone live with themselves after being responsible for that happening to an animal? That fox in the first pic probably did that to itself out of boredom and frustration.
PETA claims these farms do things like snapping their necks. This doesn't kill the animal though, at least that's what they claim, and I believe they're correct- I'll ask my dad tomorrow to be sure (my dad is a zoologist). What it does, as I understand it, is to paralyze the animal; the brain dies from lack of oxygen, but this can take as long as 5 minutes. They also do stuff like sticking probes/alligator clips up the animals' rectums and/or vaginas and electrocuting them:
The farmer told our investigator that a humane death by an injection of barbiturate was "too expensive"—even though it costs a mere 30 cents per animal. So he uses a metal noose pole to lift each fox from the cage by the neck, shoves an electric prod into the animal’s rectum and forces a metal conductor into the animal’s mouth. A flip of a switch shoots 240 volts of electricity through the fox’s body.
According to our investigator, "The fox’s eyes usually shut and the body goes rigid. There is a crackling sound … and sometimes teeth break and fall out. … Often the anal probe falls out. When this happens, the fox convulses, shakes, and often cries."
Death doesn’t come quickly. Because the electricity does not go through and stun the brain, the foxes remain awake and feel the full excruciating force of a massive heart attack. Tom Amlung, a veterinarian and administrator for St. Clair County, Ill., animal control, says, "The animals do not lose consciousness … for one to two minutes. The time … seems like an eternity, so one can only imagine how the animal must feel experiencing this pain during this time with the electricity running from one end of his body to the other while heat builds up at the site of the electrode."
- http://www.furisdead.com/animals-chilling.html
I need to do some more research and see how prevalent this stuff is. We are, after all, talking about PETA, which is far from an unbiased source. I'd like to believe that it's not nearly as common as they claim it is, but the only way to know for sure is to do some more research. What PETA wants (to ban the fur trade, make everyone vegans, etc.) is never going to happen, and I wouldn't want it to. I wouldn't mind seeing fur banned, but I think that even that is being pretty unreasonable. But is it too much to ask for these people to keep and kill the animals in a humane way to minimize their suffering?