[Faline]

Nearly two dozen high street retailers have stopped selling products containing angora wool after footage emerged showing scenes of cruelty to rabbits.

Video showing the mass production of angora in China taken by the charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) shows rabbits appearing to scream in pain as they have their wool ripped out.

Marks and Spencer, Top Shop, H&M, Primark and Next are among brands that have agreed to suspend the use of angora products until the allegations of unethical treatment can be investigated.

Mimi Bekhechi, Peta associate director, told Sky News: "This is the first time the conditions in which these rabbits live have been exposed.

"Angora wool has only recently become popular and I think most people haven't any idea where it comes from.

"Companies can't claim to have an animal welfare policy if they use angora wool. Because of the way the rabbits are treated, it's as bad as wearing fur."

Peta investigators examined the conditions in 10 angora farms in different regions of China and found similar conditions in each.

The charity said hundreds of rabbits were squashed into cages for their entire lives, only being removed every 60 days to have their fur plucked painfully from their bodies.

Most failed to survive beyond three years old - often being killed if they lived longer - even though rabbits in the wild live for up to 10 years.

The video footage shows the animals emitting a squealing sound as they are tied down and left red raw as their fur is torn from their bodies.

Peta says that as many as 50 million angora rabbits are kept in Chinese farms to supply the fashion industry - the only way the previously expensive fur has been able to become so widely available.

Until the 1960s, small scale French farms provided most of the world's angora - a particularly soft type of wool - but countries outside Europe which lack animal welfare laws have since taken over most of the supply.

Peta said Asos, the online retailer, has just become the first store to agree to remove all angora products from shelves permanently.

Among the other stores operating on the British high street that have suspended use of angora are: New Look, Wallis, Dorothy Perkins, Miss Selfridge, Evans, boohoo, Coast, Warehouse, Oasis, Esprit, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Whistles, Marco Polo and Boden.

For obvious reason i will not link the video here, i only managed a few seconds of it But it can be found linked on the Sky news website at the bottom of the article
http://news.sky.com/story/1182703/an...-cruelty-video

[mrm1109]

The video is only 30 seconds long. Thankfully they don't show much. Just the bunnies without fur

[Faline]

Originally Posted by mrm1109 ↗

The video is only 30 seconds long. Thankfully they don't show much. Just the bunnies without fur

The full video is linked at the bottom of the article.

[mrm1109]

Oh. Yeah im not gonna watch that one

[Kanda444]

poor little things... that's bullshit....

[Blewvane]

Don't need to watch it, i've heard their screams before. Sounds like a human baby. Fucking savages.

[Kanda444]

Originally Posted by Blewvane ↗

Don't need to watch it, i've heard their screams before. Sounds like a human baby. Fucking savages.

i hadnt heard it before so i watched the vid.... you're 100% right. sounded like a human child screaming. it was rough.....

[Faline]

Originally Posted by Kanda444 ↗

i hadnt heard it before so i watched the vid.... you're 100% right. sounded like a human child screaming. it was rough.....

I managed the first few screams and that was it, fucking cunts

[Kanda444]

Originally Posted by Kelly ↗

I managed the first few screams and that was it, fucking cunts

it was awful... it's hard to imagine people being that heartless for a job.

[Blewvane]

Originally Posted by Kanda444 ↗

it was awful... it's hard to imagine people being that heartless for a job.

Think about those screams next time you're about to buy something made in china, that purchase is supporting the economy of a civilisation (i use that word loosely) that has no respect for the welfare of life. Japan is just as bad, as are quite a number of other 'civilisations' on this planet.
I'm no tree hugging greeny but i draw the line at animal cruelty, if something has to die then it has the right to a quick death.