PETITION BAN FUR FARMING IN ITALY

(End of petition: 31 march 2008)

To Presidenti del Senato della Repubblica e della Camera dei Deputati
Ai Presidenti dei gruppi Parlamentari del Senato della Repubblica
e della Camera dei Deputati

Dear Sir/Madam,
Factory farms hold from hundreds up to thousands of animals and their farming practices are remarkably uniform around the globe. The animals are kept in small, barren cages, unable to do anything that comes naturally to them. Stress-induced behaviour such as self-mutilation, repetitive pacing and cannibalizing cagemates is common. After enduring a life of misery, the animals are either gassed or anally electrocuted.
As with other intensive-confinement animal farms, the methods used in fur factory farms are designed to maximize profits, always at the expense of the animals. Because fur farmers care only about preserving the quality of the fur, they use slaughter methods that keep the pelts intact but that can result in extreme suffering for the animals. Larger animals have clamps attached to or rods forced into their mouths and rods are forced into their anuses, and they are painfully electrocuted. Other animals are poisoned with strychnine, which suffocates them by paralyzing their muscles with painful, rigid cramps. Gassing, and neck-breaking are other common slaughter methods in fur factory farms. The fur industry refuses to condemn even blatantly cruel killing methods. Genital electrocution—deemed “unacceptable” by the American Veterinary Medical Association in its “2000 Report of the AVMA Panel on Euthanasia”—causes animals to suffer from cardiac arrest while they are still conscious. Every fur coat, lining, or piece of trim represents the intense suffering of animals, whether they were trapped, ranched, or even unborn. Raising and killing animals for their fur is not an acceptable practice in a civilised society.
Many countries – including the whole of the UK – have already put a stop to this barbaric practice, and it is high time for Italy to join them.
Your sincerely.


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