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Exposing these atrocities is not enough.

The world and animal rights activists already know.

What's URGENTLY needed now

is mass protest action in the West.

Those companies and countries involved in trade with China and other S.E. Asia nations must be persuaded to take notice and pressure those countries - now LEGALLY engaged in torturing cats, dogs and other animals - to enact and enforce appropriate animal rights legislation, with severe penalties for those who violate it.

But since laws are only partially enforced in that part of the world, there must be a zero tolerance for Western purchase of Asian fur.

Activists need to focus on Western companies still selling fur (regardless of its provenance), and then also on major Western companies trading with China and other SE nations that so blatantly torture animals for profit.

All of them must be made aware that it's not enough to improve conditions for workers making products for the West, but that it is imperative to demand humane treatment for animals too.

There are lots of sites with petitions, but they are of limited value without political action to stop the importation of furs obtained through torture. There needs to be a greater effort by activists at organizing and taking united action.

Animal rights activists infiltrated two farms and market near Beijing

Each had more than 300 'raccoon dogs', related to domestic dogs

They secretly filmed after pretending to be potential buyers from Europe

Video shows grinning worker ripping fur up around live animal's head

The caged animals show evident signs of mental illness.

They experience and witness horrors day after day.

A U.S. report in 2010 said 30 million mink, 25 million foxes and 15 million raccoon dogs were set to be slaughtered for fashion in China that year - up 15 million on the year before.

Video footage exposes the Chinese fur farms where 'racoon' dogs are skinned alive en-masse and turned into luxury coats sold in the West.

Animal rights activists smuggled secret cameras into farms and markets near Beijing, where they spent three weeks pretending to be potential business partners from Europe.

There they filmed the industrial scale of fur farming, a practice banned in Britain 14 years ago but largely unrestricted in many other countries including China.

A grinning worker then demonstrated how to skin the animal to a watching crowd, ripping off its pelt around its head with half a dozen forceful tugs while its legs remained hooked to the back of a truck.

The two activists behind the footage were part of the campaign group Animal Equality based in Los Angeles, California.

Continue reading and see disturbing images of animal suffering and human sadistic cruelty in China fur farm.

And see hidden video

The animals endure short lives of incredible suffering

at the hands of Chinese fur farmers.

Founder Jose Valle, one of the two undercover activists who infiltrated the farms, told MailOnline the consequences could have been dire if he was caught.Describing the farm, he said: 'There was a stench coming from the cages. The animals had no access to water and when they were skinned, the corpses were left lying in the open air.

'Several of them showed clear signs of psychological stress and suffered stereotypical behaviour such as pacing, biting bars and self-mutilation.

'Most of the animals were killed at the farm and skinned. Many times the bodies were then fed to other animals.

'The majority are killed when they are a few months old but others are kept for breeding. Some of these animals spend four or five years in a tiny cage going round in circles going crazy.'

Mr Valle said seeing an animal skinned alive at a market was the most harrowing moment - and the most nerve-wracking for him personally.

'He brought us into this small circle where we were the only western people, so immediately they were suspicious,' he said. 'But because we were with a very well-known fur trader they allowed us to be there. What they didn't know was that we had a hidden camera.

'He told us he was selling all over the world, including Europe, and he has several customers in Europe and the U.S.' Mr Valle added: 'They know there's a growing outrage against the cruelty of the fur trade, so as westerners it's difficult for us to access these places. They know animal activists are interested so they're reluctant to say much to outsiders.

'They showed us everything because we appealed to them as business people and they thought we were going to do business. On a couple of occasions in the market it felt dangerous. When we were coming back in the car with the fur farmer he asked us if we were journalists.

'One activist ended up in a car chase when he tried to film a fur market. He was taken to the police station and they confiscated the tapes of what he filmed there.'

The organisation is calling for more countries to ban or impose stricter welfare laws on fur farming, which has boomed in China amid the rise of the newly-rich.

China is now the world's biggest importer of fur despite already producing a quarter of the world's pelts, according to the International Fur Trade Federation.

A U.S. report in 2010 said 30 million mink, 25 million foxes and 15 million raccoon dogs were set to be slaughtered for fashion in China that year - up 15 million on the year before.

It added most of the country's fur farms - most of which have been built since 1995 - were small family firms, making it harder to carry out checks on the number of animals or their welfare.

Europe remains by far the biggest fur farming region, producing 60 per cent of the world's supply. But activists have shone a spotlight on China because of its rapid expansion and lack of welfare laws.

'I think it can be as bad as in other countries, but in China there are no particular laws,' Mr Valle said. 'So even if you film cruelty there's nothing you can do about it.  'I've also been in fur farms in Norway, Finland and Spain and found animals that are mutilated and cannibalising each other.'

Fur farming was banned in Britain in 2000 amid a public outcry, and the country's last remaining mink farmers were paid compensation by the government.  A year later Britain banned imports of dog and cat fur, in response to a two-year RSPCA campaign which tugged public heartstrings with images from the film 101 Dalmatians.

Raccoon dogs do not come under the legislation because the animals are distantly related to domestic pets.

Many U.S. websites list coats and collars made from Chinese 'Asiatic raccoon', and the use of the name means buyers do not always realise they are buying the fur of canines.   Mr Valle's colleague Sharon Nunez said: 'These furs are shipped to countries across the globe. They line coats at stores throughout the US.'

Horror: The most chilling scene shot by the activists was

the live skinning of a raccoon dog at a fur market

THE WORKERS ENJOY IT

Torn limb from limb:

A grinning worker stunned the animal

with the current from the truck's battery.

They connected to the mouth and the anus to immobilize him,

but keeping him fully conscious.

Forceful: Demonstrating how to skin the animal,

the worker ripped its fur up around its head in firm tugs

Skinned dogs left to agonize in excruciating pain.

Breeding animals driven insane by human cruelty mutilate themselves.

The farm also had foxes, bred for their fur, crammed many to a cage.

Source

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2867219/Inside-Chinese-fur-farms-breed-raccoon-dogs-tiny-cages-skin-alive-make-luxury-coats-sold-West.html

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Exposed: secret cameras capture cruelty of Chinese fur farms

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