No Extra Fur March: Harrods has been getting lots of consideration within the media not too long ago for the actions of its former proprietor, however on Saturday twenty seventh September 2008 it was the vacation spot of a march by the Marketing campaign Towards the Fur Commerce.
Shamefully you possibly can nonetheless purchase fur coats at Harrods, A ‘secret shopper’ filming for animal safety charity Humane Society Worldwide/UK who raised issues was lied to in 2021 by gross sales employees sporting Harrods-branded title badges concerning the situations wherein the fur is farmed.
Gross sales employees assured this buyer that the foxes have been stored in “separate rooms” with “sufficient house to play and every little thing“, and that they have been “actually put to sleep” by injection when in apply they’re confined in some farms in cages barely longer than their physique size and anally electrocuted with none anaesthetic. The Harrods employees dismissed the various stories and movies of animals struggling within the fur commerce as “solely propaganda, madam“.
You will discover out extra concerning the precise practices of fur farming with proof on many pages acriss tge internet, together with on the Humane Society Worldwide internet pages which even have info on the opposite methods animals are mistreated in analysis, farming and different areas.
Fur farming was banned within the UK as ‘unethical‘ in 2000, however fur continues to be being imported into the UK from international locations the place fur farms increase and kill animals in desperately merciless situations. Humane Society Worldwide has a letter you possibly can signal to ship Prime Minister Starmer calling on the UK authorities to finish our affiliation with fur cruelty for good and impose a fur import and gross sales ban.
After all Harrods shouldn’t be the one retailer nonetheless promoting fur, and the march from Belgrave Sq. in 2008 additionally focused different retailers in Knightsbridge together with “Gucci, Prada, Escada, Versace, Fendi, Joseph, Armani and Burberry” however in 2008 Harrods was the one division retailer within the UK nonetheless promoting actual fur.”
Since 2008 and regardless of many protests – in addition to massive occasions reminiscent of this there are smaller protests each weekend at Harrods and different retailers promoting fur – the gross sales of actual fur in UK retailers have continued.
Harvey Nicholls which had been fur-free since 2004 determined in 2014 to promote animal fur merchandise once more at its branches in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol, Dublin, Leeds and Birmingham and the most important nationwide anti fur marketing campaign for a few years was been directed towards them. In 2023 they lastly introduced that they have been returning to their no-fur coverage.
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