Kinship Circle

Fur: America's New Pacifier?
In January I saw the Broadway hit "The Producers" at Saint Louis' elegant Fox Theatre. I also saw enough dead animals to fill a forest. Ankle-edge mink, glossy rust fox and lavishly colored lynx gushed over the limbs of theatre patrons. At my seat, four women shed floor-length furs with choreographed precision. I felt lost...

The Real Cost Of Fur
As a Northwestern University freshman, I wore recycled rags to appear arty and anti-mainstream. My prized vintage possession was Grandma Ethel's black sweater with the fox fur collar. After college I shared a condominium with Tikvah, an orange Maine Coon mix cat and Stanley, a white and black Lhasa Apso...

Letter Library \| Fact Sheets \| Store \| Donate \| About Kinship Circle \| Email List \| Updates \| Digest Animal Rights Ads \| Columns & Articles \| Disaster Victims \| Stanley \| Links \| Mission \| Home
		ANIMALS USED IN FASHION Fur, Leather, Wool... "There is a probe that goes into their rectum and another probe inside their mouth. When they bite down, he [the killer] pushes on the juice. Often, their teeth break and fall out. They go into convulsions and are left writhing in pain until he can pick up the probe and shove it back in. It has to be done again and again until the animal dies." — Undercover investigator Matt Rossell at typical fur farm in Illinois. Matt's "job" was to hold animals as the killer inserted probes for anal electrocution.

Fur: America's New Pacifier? In January I saw the Broadway hit "The Producers" at Saint Louis' elegant Fox Theatre. I also saw enough dead animals to fill a forest. Ankle-edge mink, glossy rust fox and lavishly colored lynx gushed over the limbs of theatre patrons. At my seat, four women shed floor-length furs with choreographed precision. I felt lost... The Real Cost Of Fur As a Northwestern University freshman, I wore recycled rags to appear arty and anti-mainstream. My prized vintage possession was Grandma Ethel's black sweater with the fox fur collar. After college I shared a condominium with Tikvah, an orange Maine Coon mix cat and Stanley, a white and black Lhasa Apso...
Letter Library \| Fact Sheets \| Store \| Donate \| About Kinship Circle \| Email List \| Updates \| Digest Animal Rights Ads \| Columns & Articles \| Disaster Victims \| Stanley \| Links \| Mission \| Home