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ARCHIVE - Get GUESS To Go Fur-Free

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GET GUESS TO GO FUR-FREE NOW
Urge GUESS, Inc. to choose kind couture over pain and bloodshed. Ask the fashion powerhouse to initiate a permanent fur-free policy now. GUESS, an international chain with outlets in 60 countries, supports the violent fur trade by selling fur and fur-trimmed goods. Let them know you cannot purchase GUESS designs as long as they sell animal brutality.

PHOTO: Fur farm in Kauhava, Finland, published by animal rights organization Oikeutta elaimille (Justice For Animals) after an undercover investigation of fur farms. oikeutta_ela_imille_-_fur_farming_in_finland_07.jpg



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Dear Sir / Madam,

I urge GUESS to choose conscientious couture over pain and suffering. Please initiate a permanent fur-free policy.

GUESS, an international chain with stores in over 60 countries, supports the violent fur trade with its inclusion of fur and fur-trimmed goods.

Fur farms are low budget operations where caged animals live stacked in rows in open sheds. Intensively confined their entire lives, they frantically pace in feces, urine, rusty cans. Some perish from dehydration, starvation or infection.

Wild animals normally travel miles each day, raise their young, burrow, dig, and express other traits. On fur farms, they resort to coping mechanisms such as constant pacing, head bobbing, self-mutilation, infanticide, and cannibalism.

Death by genital electrocution is used to ensure undamaged pelts. A metal conductor is lodged in the animal’s throat and an electric prod is pushed inside the rectum. The killer flips a switch to blast 240 volts of electricity through the animal’s body. The electrical current only works as a paralyzing agent. The animal remains conscious for two or more minutes to feel the excruciating force of massive heart attack.

Other furbearing animals die by cervical dislocation (neck-popping), lethal injection of junk chemicals such as pesticides, or unfiltered carbon monoxide asphyxiation.

Animals trapped in the wild suffer no less. Those not immediately crushed in leghold traps or snares gnaw their teeth to the jawbone or chew off their feet to escape. Any who survive mutilation, exposure or starvation are clubbed, crushed (trappers stomp them to death) or drowned after languishing on trap lines for days.

Moreover, indiscriminate trapping devices snap shut on dogs, cats, deer, livestock and 2 to 10 times as many non-target animals. Endangered species are among the millions of animals trashed by trappers every year.

I cannot in good conscience purchase GUESS designs as long as the company supports the brutal fur industry. I encourage you to join Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, J. Crew, Ann Taylor, Polo Ralph Lauren, Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood, Todd Oldham, Marc Bouwer, and other popular designers that market sophisticated collections without real fur.

Please notify me about any decisions to implement a fur-free policy.

Thank you,
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GUESS, Inc.
USA Head Office

1444 South Alameda Street
Los Angeles, CA 90021
ph: 1-877-44-GUESS
email: customerservice@guess.com

GUESS Italia
European HQ

VIA DE CATTANI SNC, 50100
FIRENZE (Florence) Italy
ph: +390553208412
email: luca.tacchi@guess.it, andrea.bargiotti@guess.it
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Guess UK Ltd
Unit G5 Harbour Yard
Chelsea Harbour
London, SW10 0XD
ph: 020 7240 2086, 020 7751 4430
email: info@guessuk.com

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