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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.
Caged: This 'raccoon' dog is one of hundreds held at a particular Chinese fur farm,
where they live in cages for just a few months till they are skinned alive for their fur,
and their flesh sold for meat for human consumption or fed to those still alive.
Some are kept in cages for years just to breed more puppies.
Caged animals show evident signs of mental illness
as a result of suffering from such barbaric treatment.
Raccoon dogs are canines, but the breed is described as 'Asiatic raccoon' on luxury coat labels, so as not to call them "dogs," which would affect sales.
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
