The Under (LIE)s of fashion

Usage of animal testing over the years have caused too many innocent animals to be killed

Fashion- an essential part of everyone’s life: from clothes, accessories to shoes, you name it, everyone’s interested in them. But have you thought about the origin of the piece of cloth you’re donned in? Not all fashion pieces are made from a good piece. Every year, millions of animals are killed for the clothing industry- all in the name of fashion.

Whether it came from an animal on a fur farm or one who was from the wild, every fur coat caused an animal a tremendous suffering, and even took away a life. It does not matter to the fur farms of the animals' wellbeing.

Think that the animals are at least well taken care of? Think again.

Animals such as minks and foxes are commonly farmed as fur-bearing animals. Not only do the animals spend their lives confined to a filthy cage, waiting for their turn to be turn to a piece of clothing, they are killed with the cheapest method available. Some include suffocation, electrocution- anything to give them their last breath.

Minks trapped in unkempt cages in fur farms in china. Photo Credit: PETA

How would you like it if you were skinned for a piece of clothing?
Just this year, The Guardian stated that "Home Office figures proved that nearly 3.7 million experiments were performed on animals." A rise of 14% on the previous year- This is the sharpest escalation in animal use in medical research since 1986.

More than half of the fur in US came from China- where dogs and cats are often skinned alive. For those who are unaware, Chinese furs are often mislabeled. In this case, there is no way of knowing of what skin you are wearing. Scary, isn’t it?

So what can you do? Have the knowledge that fur coats are the result of animal suffering. Know that this cruelty will continue until the public refuses to buy or wear fur.

Don’t. Wear. Fur. 

Don’t support stores that sell fur and let the owners know why you refuse to buy them. Do what you can- even if it means writing letters to several organizations.

Make a stand.

In the words of Ashley Bell, “I make the right choice, the humane choice, and only use cosmetics that are not tested on animals."

For how long will animals be treated this way? Make the right choice.