MH Vatavaran, the Environment Society of Miranda House in collaboration with AAVYA , presented a documentary “Dominion”, an Aussie Farms production under the Farms Transparency Project showcasing the horrors and barbaric, inhumane behavior meted out to the animals of dairy industry. Here's a brief report on one of the animals the documentary discusses about.
Foxes are the second most commonly farmed animals for fur after Minks. They face many of the same problems as Minks. Foxes are even classified as pests across the country with number estimated at over 7 million. Hunting foxes is not considered illegal if done over own land in all states. Chinese fur farmers claim that their margins are so slim, they can't afford to kill foxes with anything but the most brutally efficient of methods with many foxes skinned alive to save time and effort. Foxes being repeatedly bludgeoned over the head, resulting in catastrophic injury but not instant death. Foxes are cut and skinned while still alive and clearly moving. On fur farms, animals spend their entire lives in tiny wire battery cages. Foxes are typically kept in cages that are just one square yard in area, thousands of times smaller than their territories would have been in the wild. This would be the equivalent of forcing a person to live in an elevator.
It is so obvious that if we decide onto something, we can surely bring a change. A small initiative can change and save the lives of many animals that are brutally tortured and killed for fur. All of us have the ability to make a difference. Together we can bring an end to the cruel fur industry and stop the torture! We should BOYCOTT all the fur trading companies. We should refuse to buy items containing fur or fur trim. Buy faux fur and cruelty-free clothing instead. If we, the consumers refuse to wear fur, then who will buy the fur? Eventually, these companies will stop trading fur.
We should endorse and/or demand local, state and federal anti-trapping and anti-cruelty laws. Also, we need to thank and support stores that don’t sell fur so that we motivate other shops that sell fur, to stop doing so. We need to get in touch with designers, manufacturers, stores, catalogs and fashion magazines and ask them to stop producing, selling and/or promoting fur. We should organize awareness programs to spread awareness and inform others about the horrors of the fur trade. We can also distribute literature or plan an anti-fur event. It was well cited by Mickey Boardman, editorial director for Paper Magazine - “This investigation just reminds us of how cruel and inhumane the fur trade is and why it must end. There’s no justification for wearing fur in today’s world. There are too many alternative ways to be fabulous and fashionable without being cruel.”
-By: Faguni Agrawal B.Sc (Hons.) Chemistry, 2nd Year
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