Greetings,

With New Years around the corner and Christmas behind us, I'm hoping that folks remember the plight of our furry friends and deter from purchases of real fur and to be especially precautious when labels state that it's faux fur.... brand names like Bloomingdale's, Neiman Marcus, Lord & Taylor, Dillard's, Saks Fifth Avenue and Yoox.com—have not addressed this consumer deception and continue sales in fur collars and trims, claiming it to be faux fur. Certain jackets sold by these companies with the brand names Burberry, Andrew Marc, Marc New York, Preston & York, Aqua, Ramosport and Adam+Eve were found to be falsely advertised or mislabeled as faux fur.

C'mon now, do you really want to be wearing something that has a trim of REAL Dog or Cat Fur???

Last winter, of 25 fur-trimmed jackets tested by The HSUS, every single one was falsely advertised, falsely labeled, unlabeled or had a combination of these problems. Twenty were identified by laboratory testing as raccoon dog and three as domestic dog.

Raccoon dogs and domestic dogs are both raised for their fur in China—a country with no functioning animal welfare laws, and where investigators have documented animals being skinned alive for their fur. Like many other species, rabbits raised for their fur spend their entire lives in tiny wire cages. Much of the world’s fur is processed in China, where environmental problems associated with the industry are receiving scrutiny - to find out  more - visit the Humane Society's website at http://www.hsus.org/furfree/news/holiday_shoppers_real_fur_as_faux_122007.html 

more coming, something has come up.......